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Re: Emirates News and Discussion - 2023

MAH4546 wrote:
Crazy that Emirates hasn’t really added much since COVID. Just Miami (which wasn’t a new destination - just switching South Florida service from FLL to MIA) and now Montreal.

What else do you want them to add?

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

The SYD-HND vv schedules have been further updated (per EF), along the lines of ZK-BNT's guess above, including a 789 rotation. QF59 SYD-HND 1220-2015 333 QF25 SYD-HND 2145-0525+1 789 QF26 HND-SYD 0700-1850 789 QF60 HND-SYD 2200-0955+1 333 I'm slightly surprised the aircraft allocations aren't arou...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

And the NRT schedules are basically the same as they were before the switch to HND.

QF61 BNE0920 - 1730NRT 333 D
QF62 NRT1930 - 0545+1BNE 333 D

QF79 MEL0925 - 1740NRT 333 D
QF80 NRT1920 - MEL0745+1 333 D

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Re: Turkish Airlines to order 600 aircraft in June

TK talks big but never delivers. I mean SYD has been "planned" for a decade and always gets brought up around annual investor meetings. Now they want to order 'up to 600'? Not to get political, but this kind of 'big' news does come up when something is just around the corner...

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Re: Why does BA fly JFK-LGW?

Ah yes, great question. Should also ask, why does BA fly LHR-EWR? Could consolidate all LON-NYC at solely LHR-JFK

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Re: Emirates News and Discussion - 2023

https://gulfnews.com/amp/business/aviat ... 3181260912

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

Any updates on the QF A380 fleet? Anyone know when the next ones will return to service? Also any details on when OQL will get a cabin upgrade? I saw the other day that it was operating with its original interior (seats badly scratched in places), but also realised it was the last delivered. I assu...

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Re: A380- why F on first deck?

davescj wrote:
I would have thought the distance from the engine would make the cabin quieter and so better.

Considering how quiet the A380 already is, I doubt it matters where on the aircraft F is.

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Re: AC Launches YVR-DXB

Huh? I got those quotes today, for travel in October, if I remember correctly. And it wasn't on Chinese carriers "that are gone", but mostly on All Nippon and Japan Air Lines. Have a look for yourself on your favourite flight booking website. https://www.expedia.com/ Found nothing sub $10...

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Re: AC Launches YVR-DXB

Yields to/from India rarely are. For example, you can get a Delhi-Vancouver-Delhi round-trip outside of peak season almost any day at below USD 1,000. Beginning the trip in Vancouver is around USD 50 more. And those are published fares, not using consolidator fares. You can have a Business Class ti...

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Re: Qatar Airways Adelaide transit

Happy for others to confirm, but it seems that your friend will need to disembark for transit screening, and remain within the International gate lounges area. That's correct. All transit passengers, including those on continuing flights with the same flight number, are required to disembark the ai...

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Re: JAL’s strategy @ BOS

The BOS timings allow beyond Asia connections via NRT. Could be JL needs them to sustain the route. I was wondering about that, but then I couldn’t figure out why JL would operate the route for 8-years as a morning NRT departure and same day turn in BOS if it was limiting beyond Asia connections vi...

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Re: BA SYD to HND

mustiturnright wrote:
Having looked I am surprised the lack of frequency in flights between Sydney and Tokyo. On legacy carriers anyway. Didn’t check the others.

What frequency do you expect between SYD and TYO?

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Re: Widebody Europe Flights

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230403-lh744

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Re: Intra-European quad widebody flights?

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230403-lh744

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Re: BA SYD to HND

2 issues. It's almost impossible to get an A380 into HND due to regulations. 5th freedom isn't permitted at HND, meaning HND-SYD can't make money on its own.

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2023

If CNS-HND is successful for VA, could we potentially see more Max routes into Asia from CNS? Could be opportune to utilise CNS for some inbound tourism while offering connections to the major centres of BNE, SYD, MEL, ADL and PER. VA won't get many inbound travellers the way it's going. Still unab...

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Re: Is first class being offered between HKG and NRT/HND?

UAUA wrote:
JAL and ANA no?

You can answer all of your own questions by making a dummy search on their websites.

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Re: AY goes "low-cost" to to restore profitability

I'd be pretty mad if I already had booked flights after 19 April, since I paid for a service which has now been reduced.

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Re: Anywhere to fly 747-400 from the US?

LH operates the B744 into JFK.

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Re: Direct flights from Italy to Caribbean?

Do you know the exact place in the Caribbean that you are headed to? I don’t know if any scheduled airlines fly from Italy to the Caribbean directly, but there are plenty of 1 stop options. I don’t know anything about charter so someone else may have to chime in there. Yeah there aren't many (if an...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

I'm still to be convinced that PER has any ongoing usefulness as an international hub above any other port. For the 20 million or so in the east PER offers no obvious advantage over any other stopover port - if a stopover port is necessary. Adelaide residents may look to PER, but only where they do...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

The proposed trial in 2020 that never operated was just two one-off flights. This MOU has state government backing probably through the Vic aviation fund, and is proposed at 3x weekly. Let’s hope it happens, the more reach and variety in flights/airlines the better. The big thing now is that EL Al ...

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Re: How to get in touch with Saudia

https://www.saudia.com/help/contact-us/call-centers

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Re: Northern Pacific Airways News and Discussion - 2023

Well you cant fly to Japan, but you can between ONT-LAS effective June 2nd. Loaded in GDS Friday 7H711 ONT-LAS 1400-1500 Sunday 7H777 LAS-ONT 1400-1500 Now I'm starting to join the crowd that thinks the founders are smoking crack. 1 flight a week in each direction? It will probably be full but not ...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

https://twitter.com/aa380fanclub/status ... 94D7tze5lA

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Re: International Transfer in DPS

This won't be considered an intl-intl transfer. You will be required to clear immigration and customs, and collect your luggage in DPS. You will also require a visa depending on your nationality. Once all arrival formalities have been completed, you can go to the QR check in desk and proceed with th...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

Speaking of QFLink fleet replacements, the Fokkers, Dash 8-200s and the 8-300s are getting on. I know they are have low rotations and nothing as old as the ZL Saabs but they're going to have to start making plans to move these along soon. The only real replacement for the Dash 8-200 would be the AT...

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Re: Does having a flight simulator make you a pilot?

He's a professional gamer who can hit reset on a bad landing.

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Re: Korean Air / Asiana this summer

Korean Air: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230104-ke380?rq=A380 Asiana Airlines: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221122-ozns23380?rq=A380 But this also suggests other routes for Asiana Airlines. Maybe do some dummy bookings on these routes to get a better idea. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221226-3...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

QF announced MEL-CGK 3 weekly on the 330. Bit of a surprise! Starting 16th April, rather soon too! https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/flying-kangaroo-launches-international-sale-and-new-route-to-indonesia/ Schedule as follows: QF039 MEL 15:10 CGK 19:15 A330 357 QF040 CGK 21:00 MEL 06:...

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Re: Create your own startup airline

An LCC copy of TAP essentially, based at LIS. Feed Euro routes into LIS connecting to long-haul. Basically hit the big ports across the Americas where IAG, AFKL, VS, TP go. I don’t think this topic has been raised before! How about an airline based in San Antonio with A380’s going nonstop to Europe ...

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Re: New Zealand Aviation - January 2023

Poor weather in Auckland is making a lot of flights divert to CHC and WLG just now. The internationals seem to be diverting to CHC and domestic flights to WLG. Would have been cool seeing more of the widebody aircraft going to WLG but understandable they're not Apparently someone skidded on landing...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

ben175 wrote:
Odds on NZ resuming seasonal PER-CHC?

With what aircraft? NZ can't even operate AKL-PER with their own fleet it's that tight. Maybe eventually for CHC-PER, but most likely not within the year.

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

EK are boosting both MEL and SYD back up to triple daily from 26 March! This marks the return of the popular MEL-SIN-DXB service as well! https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/emirates-777-melbourne-sydney-dubai#comment-149642 & just last week we were discussing the return of EK416/417 ;) EK4...

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Re: Japan Aviation - 2023

Wonder what's going from Sapporo to Melbourne :| QR to operate a one-off CTS-MEL cargo flight. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230118-qrccts What are they going to replace the 772s? They don’t have any near term deliveries of 787s except one 788 going to Zipair. They have some A350-1000s coming to re...

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Re: Why is CUN not served from Asia?

If KE or NH/JL were to start ICN/NRT-CUN flights, it would be operated with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. I mean, that's a given. Their B787 fleets would be better suited to SZG or VIE. CUN is the most popular destination overseas though, so perhaps KE or NH could use their A380, or JL could get some ...

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Re: Why is CUN not served from Asia?

0hAerqplane wrote:
CUN is the most visited destination from overseas.

I guess you mean from the US? Because that changes depending on the origin country. From Australia it would be NZ or Bali. From Sth Korea it would be San Antonio, etc.

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Re: Future of DL/AA/UA Haneda Slots?

If I were DL, I would move the PDX and HNL slots to make LAX-HND and ATL-HND double daily. DL cannot just move slots around as they wish, the slots were approved based on the origin of each flight. Arrival and departure times are pretty fixed as well, so you'd have 2x LAX and ATL flights each opera...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

I wonder if VA is still planning to make changes to their CNS schedules. Currently they don't have any early morning flights from CNS to SYD or MEL, with first flights of the day both departing at 10:45am. It won't be ideal for connections considering the 4h30m transit time. On the topic of VA and ...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Thought I'd book VA BNE-CNS-HND return. I'm not sure I want to travel 8+ hours on a 737 but the pricing in J was really keen (even compared to JQ Business out of OOL to NRT) and the connection in CNS outbound was timely (not so much inbound but not impossible). My normal route on SQ via SIN is much...

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Re: Touring Cancun, part 2 of going to Cancun on United Airlines!

0hAerqplane wrote:
Then we took off and then at cruising altitude, I was served pretzels and chose Sprite as the drink.

What a truly world class airline... appalling.

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Chinese airlines ramping up services to Australia: China Eastern: - SYD-PVG increases to x3 weekly 77W service from 20JAN - MEL-PVG resumes x3 weekly 789 service from 24JAN China Southern: - SYD-CAN increase to daily A359 service from 01FEB - MEL-CAN resumes x3 weekly from 25JAN then daily A359 ser...

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Re: Japan Aviation - 2023

Current plans are: UA: IAD - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) HNL - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) DL: HNL - 8 March 2023 (first flight to HND) PDX - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) MSP - 25 March 2023 (resuming service) NH: SJC - cancelled HA: KOA - 12 March 2023 (resuming service) AA:...

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Re: Japan Aviation - 2023

For some Japan-US routes are still up in air and don't know when or if it will be resumed. Like following: UA: IAD - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) HNL - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) HNL-HND for UA? I think UA only have HND slots for SFO, LAX, EWR, IAD and ORD. They used to prioritise I...

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Re: Japan Aviation - 2023

For some Japan-US routes are still up in air and don't know when or if it will be resumed. Like following: UA: HNL-NRT IAD-NRT/NND DL: PDX-HND HNL-HND NH: SJC-HND HA: KOA-HND Current plans are: UA: IAD - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) HNL - 25 March 2023 (first flight to HND) DL: HNL - 8 March...

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Re: Any El Al employees on this board? Have a question

So just to be clear, you are trying to avoid paying for a 5th seat selection, correct? If so, the issue you face is someone selecting the F seat. Not much can be done after that, and it may mean that the adults are stuck with D and G, and the kids in H, J and K, or adult 1 in D, 15 y.o. in G, adult ...

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Re: What would happen if UA were to deploy the Boeing 737 for European flights

UA should fly 737s from San Antonio to Europe because Europeans want to see the Alamo and Riverwalk How about UA try something like a milk run between SAT-EWR-(AMS/CDG/LHR)-VIE-ICN because they would have service to UA hubs in ICN and VIE and people can see Mozart and Haydn's birthplace in VIE. Wou...

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Re: What would happen if UA were to deploy the Boeing 737 for European flights

johns624 wrote:
Mortyman wrote:
The real question is, why would you want to fly a narrowbody insead of a widebody ?
What difference does the size of the plane make? It's all about seat width and legroom.

Turbulence, space to move around, hard product offerings, seat width/pitch to name a few.

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Re: What would happen if UA were to deploy the Boeing 737 for European flights

Europe flights. A321XLR can fly to BER, WAW, and LIM for Latin American flights. A321neo could be used for PDL, and smaller cities in Europe. Exactly, thanks for helping to prove my point. So why is the 737 MAX needed for Europe, and as you suggest, EWR-LHR/MAN/MAD/AMS etc.? Popular destinations th...

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