7News Just InLight at the end of the tunnel for Australian travellers with airfares finally about to drop
Melbourne passengers are finally enjoying some relief from sky-high airfares. Domestic prices are down more than ten per cent this year as flight attendants push for a mega pay rise.
Our flights are fuller than ever and the Consumer watchdog worries about lack of competition, but some domestic airfares have dropped in price.
The industry itself is stabilizing after a number of years of turmoil, so we're starting to see that really come into a normal standard now.
Flight Center data shows domestic economy airfares down twelve percent on this time last year. The biggest drops Melbourne to Perth and Adelaide to Sydney. But on the lucrative so called Golden triangle between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, prices aren't moving much at all, despite jet fuel back to twenty nineteen prices. There's better news if you're headed overseas.
The past twelve months a huge increase in international capacity coming online with new carriers introducing seats and coming in and out of the market, and that really drives the cost of airfares down internationally.
Cabin crew wanted biggest slice of aviation's recent success, putting for a pay rise a fair work commission. The union wants a flight attendant's minimum wage raised, in some cases by more than twenty percent. There's a push for more over time and public holiday pay the first major change to the award in twenty years.
I don't think it's going to impact on airfares. Kavain crew can't be held responsible for competition policy in the industry.
Quanterson Jetstar recently agreed to pay rises for some crew Blake Johnson seven News
