Qantas meets rising demand in fly-in, fly-out market

The contraction in the hospitality and construction industries caused by the GFC, has been more than offset by the Commodities boom, but this has lured workers to move to the mining towns in search of employment opportunities. Unfortunately, amenities like schools and shops in the mining areas are still undeveloped and families still prefer to live in the established cities

Qantas has identified this new market and is servicing the fly-in, fly-out market. This means that families can continue living in the cities, but the menfolk can commute to the outlying employment centres by air.  Goldcoast’s airport at Coolangatta has specially allocated runways for these aircraft

QANTAS is accelerating its national push into the booming resources market, as QantasLink and Network Aviation add 14 aircraft over the next 12 months.

The airline is considering committing bigger Airbus 320 or Boeing 737 size aircraft to fly-in, fly-out work and says it expects interstate flying to become increasingly important to resources companies.

This is great news for Landlords on the Goldcoast as it means the resources boom will not suck away workers to the mining towns

At present there are extremely low vacancy rates in the popular family suburbs of Goldcoast and Brisbane

This underlines our focus at  RNC  Property Services; source the suburbs that the tenants want, after all these are the tenants that pay the investors bond

From: The Australian  January 09, 2012 12:00AM