VH-BZF From Australia, joined Oct 1999, 781 posts, RR: 0 Posted (13 years 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1233 times:
BIG News reported today in the Australian Financial Review!
Whilst Qantas is negotiating with Boeing & Airbus on a new fleet of 10 widebodied aircraft, It looks as though Ansett may have beaten them to the punch!
"Ansett is likely to deploy within a year a fleet of B777's from Singapore Airlines for expansion onto Asian routes and peak-hour flights between Melbourne & Sydney.
SQ which now owns 25% of AN through its quarter share of Air NZ, has said it will aggressively expand both airlines with new planes & routes"
As a side note, the AFR also stated that Airbus are offering Qantas a huge discount to be a launch customer for the A3XX along with signed up customers - Emirates, Cathay, Singapore Airlines, ANA and freight/parcel operators FedEX & Atlas. They say a cost of $US280 million per aircraft would be realistic, but if QF orders now they could save as much as $US56 million off each aircraft!
We will wait & see!
Cheers.
Ansett Australia - (was) One of the worlds great airlines!
The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 6082 posts, RR: 56 Reply 2, posted (13 years 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1002 times:
This sounds very promising, but I'd like to hear something official from Ansett or Singapore Airlines. Hopefully this will come true. That would be very good for Ansett Australia. The777Man
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VH-BZF From Australia, joined Oct 1999, 781 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (13 years 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 977 times:
Both SQ & NZ have stated publicly that they want the Ansett brand flying more international services & infact Jim McCrea CEO of both NZ & now AN, has stated that AN would be a better choice on the Syd-Lax route than possibly NZ, because of AN's strong (local) brand.
B777's flying peak services between Melbourne & Sydney would also be very interesting! Ansett for a long time has not wanted to provoke QF into a capacity war (because of AN distinct lack of widebody capacity!) on trunk routes, however now with strong owners (SQ), Ansett can afford to take that step!
Cheers
Ansett Australia - (was) One of the worlds great airlines!
CX747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4385 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (13 years 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 972 times:
SIA isn't set to receive another 777-200ER until Feb 01 so where are these birds going to come from? Their 747-400 fleet will grow though from 2 744s to 6 744s.
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." D. Eisenhower
GUNDU From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (13 years 3 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 925 times:
SIA will be willing to get rid of 9V-SQA ASAP.SQA gives them lots of troubles and SIA also has a lot of surplus 777's,so SIA might be able to lease some 777's out.
Stuarts8 From New Zealand, joined Apr 2000, 39 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (13 years 3 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 921 times:
This will also affect what Air New Zealand intends to do in my view. They do not appear to be going for the 777 at the moment but that could change. Air New Zealand has always been Boeing and personally I cant see them going for Airbus. But Singapore may have other ideas for both Ansett and Air New Zealand so we shall have to wait and see.
Skystar From Australia, joined Jan 2000, 1363 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (13 years 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 872 times:
All I can say is that AN getting 777s is possible, but take a pinch of salt with everything you hear - people have been speculating for years.
To have 777s on MEL-SYD services would represent a sizeable jump in capacity - too much IMHO. There is no forseeable growth nor demand at the moment to facilitate such a move. MEL-SYD, while a high capacity route, is ruled by frequency. 777s represent a very large jump over 762 capacity.
It may be nice to have 777s, but remember that they may not make economic sense on MEL-SYD. The aircraft at the moment, which makes most sense for AN Domestic routes (widebody), ironically is the 767, 200 or 300.
Airbus doesn't have a suitable alternative (332 is too heavy and too big - not optimal for short hop routes. plus it brings operational problems at YSSY; gates)
B727-200 From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 1051 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (13 years 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 857 times:
Oh, the things you read!!!
The Ansett brand is much stronger in a much bigger market than that operated by NZ. Survey have even shown that most people would prefer to fly AN over QF to LAX if they had the opportunity.
As for the B777's?????
Flights between SYD-MEL would cost a packet with B777's. Even the B767-300 is quite expensive compared to narrowbody aircraft. Also, there are not many opportunities in Asia at the moment for expansion either (landing rights and lack of growth).
I think this article may be a piece of very creative writing.
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