A tourism boss says the NT government needs to intervene after Qantas made a 'gut-wrenching' call to cut 30,000 seats to his region.
He said he expected the region would lose up to two Melbourne services in the coming months.
"Out of Yulara we're losing a Melbourne service and we've had a change of aircraft type on the Cairns to Uluru service, which has seen a massive [seat] reduction also," he said. Mr Rochford said the region had lost 60,000 seats — a quarter of pre- pandemic capacity — in one year."And of course, the suspension of the Perth services.Mr Rochford said it was time for the Northern Territory government to intervene."This is clearly a situation where our region and our industry is having the rug pulled out from under us," he said.
"We need our government, like all the other governments of Australia who actively roll their sleeves up and attract and incentivise airlines to come to their jurisdictions."Mr Rochford said that it was a clever strategy to decrease capacity which ultimately increases airfares.
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