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FOXNews.com - Jetstar to Focus on Long-Haul Routes - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News |
 | | Jetstar's long-haul service, which includes flights from Melbourne and Sydney to destinations such as Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand, as well as Honolulu and Bali, Indonesia, broke even in December 2006 after one month of operations, Alan Joyce told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Singapore on the Asia-Pacific budget airline industry. |
 | | Jetstar, meanwhile, plans to fly routes linking Australia with North America and an Asian hub with Europe from 2010, when a fleet of 12 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners the airline has on firm order start coming into service, Joyce said. |
 | | Jetstar's long-haul, budget operations are sustained by keeping costs down _ in the first two months of operation, the carrier's cost base on its long haul flights was 45 percent below Qantas', he said. |
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