Australia’s latest price range airline has ramped up its fleet measurement 50 per cent in a cope with Canadian airline firm Aptitude.
Bonza will lease two plane from Aptitude, boosting its fleet measurement from 4 to 6, because it tries to stabilise its place in a aggressive airline market following a turbulent few months within the skies.
Since launching in early 2023, the corporate has cancelled routes and flights and rejigged its scheduling as buyer complaints pile up over the struggling provider’s service.
Bonza chief govt Tim Jordan stated the brand new plane would assist the corporate scale up its operations and higher meet buyer calls for.
“We all know it’s been a difficult time for a few of our clients who have been unable to fly and to them we are saying we’re actually sorry and we’ll be taught from this and do higher to ship for Australia,” he stated on Tuesday.
“Now that we’ve got approval for the 2 extra plane, we’re scaling up our operations.”
Jetstar, one other low-cost provider, has greater than 90 plane in its fleet.
The Gold Coast serves as a hub for Bonza, with a number of routes going via the star vacationer city, together with flights into Tasmania.
The 2 Aptitude plane will solely service locations out and in of the Gold Coast, whereas the opposite 4 plane, which the corporate owns, will service the corporate’s complete community, together with its Sunshine Coast and Melbourne bases.
“At Bonza we focus our consideration on unserved or underserved markets, with 80-90 per cent of our routes not served by different airways,” Mr Jordan stated.
“Our strategy to aviation delivers low-cost continuous decisions to shoppers who beforehand stayed dwelling attributable to costly airfares or needed to fly by way of a serious hub on one other airline and none of us need to do this.
“We’re doing every little thing we are able to to enhance the present state of play of Aussie aviation by bringing equal entry via decrease fares to extra locations round this nice nation.”
To mark the expanded fleet measurement, Bonza is providing flyers a 30 per cent low cost on tickets to Mackay and the Whitsundays, with its new Gold Coast to the Whitsundays Coast route opening from Tuesday.
The Whitsundays boasts a string of fashionable seashores and islands within the coronary heart of the Nice Barrier Reef.
The Mackay area is called a hub for the coal-rich Bowen Basin and a gateway to its personal set of tourism jewels, together with Eungella Nationwide Park about an hour west of Mackay.
Bonza flights are booked via the corporate’s Fly Bonza app quite than an ordinary web site.
