Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

planemanofnz wrote:

Does the AA-QF JV not include HNL/Hawaii?

Interesting QF's HNL service was excluded from the JV map in AA's press release about starting DFW-BNE?

Re: Hawaiian returns nighttime HND-frequencies to the DOT

United actually did not lose any time and reiterated its application for GUM-HND merely hours after Hawaiian surrendered them. Schedule: “ United flight UA849 will depart Guam at (7 p.m.) and arrive at Haneda at (10 p.m.) the same day. On the return, flight UA849 will depart Haneda at (11:55 p.m.) ...

Re: Hawaiian returns nighttime HND-frequencies to the DOT

Must a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX. No what your describing is pretty much Delta wanted: switch slots around to other gateways. The DO...

Re: Hawaiian returns nighttime HND-frequencies to the DOT

Must a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX. I believe UA will have to return the slot and rebid if they want to switch GUM to LAX in the futur...

Re: Hawaiian returns nighttime HND-frequencies to the DOT

Must a slot be used for its applied destination? Eg, UA is awarded the nighttime slot for GUM, can they switch GUM and LAX 6 months down the track hypothetically? It's a bit different than DL and PDX.

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

AA will not add competition. They have a joint venture with JL. So you think adding flights and additional seats won't increase competition? Please explain that. Adding capacity and increasing competition are not the same. For anything to involve competition, there has to be two or more entities co...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

AA should've applied for MIA-HND, JFK is already served 4x daily from HND (2x NH, 2x JL). Most likely the slots will go to IAH. And IAH-HND is already served. The DOT won't be considering what foreign airlines do. Therefore IAH-HND will be a new route, just like JFK-HND. But if they consider area c...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

AA should've applied for MIA-HND, JFK is already served 4x daily from HND (2x NH, 2x JL). Most likely the slots will go to IAH. Out of curiosity, have we heard from the US DOT regarding the HND slot shift from PDX to either JFK or IAH? And IAH-HND is already served. The DOT won't be considering wha...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

The Nikkei just reported that ANA will be launching MXP/ARN/IST in the second half of 2024 and resuming Vienna in August. Summarized the report here: https://knaviation.net/ana-european-expansion-2024/ MXP is a bit of a surprise. IST has Turkish so this is a little surprising as well. ARN I would h...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

Just saw a JAL 767-300 at my local airport! Never thought I would see a mainstream airline flying 767-300s on such a long haul route in 2024! Wowsa! Must book while I still can! How long are these birds going to stay in the fleet? What is the config like? JAL is one of the best airlines for Y Class...

Re: Turkish Aviation - January 2024

winGl3t wrote:

ekte wrote:

mict wrote:

I believe they do have 5th freedom rights between SIN and MEL and it seems open for bookings already.

What are Tk's other bookable 5th freedom routes?

GRU-EZE-GRU comes to mind

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

What are the prospects for long-haul expansion by JL/NH this year to new ports/countries? Anticipate a new nonstop between Portland, Oregon and Tokyo. This market permanently lost Japan service during covid. This market had nonstop Japan service since 1980 and then suddenly went to nothing. Previou...

Re: Day trip to be on a particular airline/aircraft

Used to live right by the old IST (Ataturk) and loved seeing the low slow climb of the A340 over the rooftops. I was really trying to get on a TK A343 before they retired from regular passenger service. On a trip to MUC, I saw the A343 scheduled on my return date, so booked that! On the day, it got ...

Re: All Nippon B737 with crack in cockpit window - Returns

Everything is going to be dramatised if it's a B737. Reminds me of the news article in Australia when a QF B738 had engine troubles midflight. When it landed, the news when insane saying parts were clearly missing from the engine, exposing the inner workings. It was just the reverse thrust being act...

Re: Japan Aviation - 2024

HND Runway C is open again, as of 08 January. From what I can tell, first flight was Skymark BC703 HND-CTS.

Re: Australian Aviation - January 2024

JetConnect’s wide body crew base in AKL keeps growing, QF management knowing chose to make this happen. Heck if they could, QF would operate crew-only deadhead flights from AKL just to fill every AU flight with Jetconnect crew. I'm actually surprised QF doesn't have crew bases in Asia "for loc...

Re: Australian Aviation - January 2024

CPT maybe a better suit to JQ once they have their refit? No, CPT really isn't a discount style destination. Neither is Honolulu and that isn’t stopping them. That being said I think JNB would come first, that and India. Others have pointed out LAS might be too far. Or Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul. Jetstar ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2023

From July we also see QF9/QF10 become a PER terminator, with no 789 making the MEL-PER journey. Does that add fuel to the 'more Euro flying' fire?

Re: Long Layover Advantages to Foreign Airlines

MH used to (might still do) offer free domestic flights around Malaysia when booking an international layover through Kuala Lumpur. All flights had to be on the same itinerary but it was a cheap way to visit Malaysia! You can book a multi-city trip anytime you want. True, but often cost more than wh...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2023

You should ultimately ask the State of Queensland this question as one of their aims from the AAIF funding across multiple flights (including VA's CNS-HND flight) was to attract inbound tourists into certain regions of Queensland, without said funding VA's owners would've highly likely let the Hane...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2023

You should ultimately ask the State of Queensland this question as one of their aims from the AAIF funding across multiple flights (including VA's CNS-HND flight) was to attract inbound tourists into certain regions of Queensland, without said funding VA's owners would've highly likely let the Hane...

Re: Absurd Schedule Changes you have experienced

evank516 wrote:

The only schedule changes that would really get under my skin are downgauges from mainline to an RJ.

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

Lamp1009 wrote:

NRT is an international connections hub. It's the only airport in Japan that allows for sterile zone transfers.

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

In fairness, that's if the route is successful. If it's not, JAL is just going to kill their NRT flight from JFK or send their HND flight somewhere more profitable. Regardless the market has ~200,000 additional seats. JAL can move its flight to another US city, but US-Japan still will have net numb...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2023

Re VA at HND; I'm still surprised they don't have a Japan point-of-sale on their website yet. To book from Japan, we need to use the NH website. Cheapest fares to CNS, BNE, MEL are still on NH via SYD and are around 75,000-100,000JPY ($750-$1,000 AUD) cheaper than VA via CNS.

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

AA announces planned flight times and says it complements JALs existing frequencies so it sound like a straight up addition. Proposed schedule of services From To Departure time Arrival time Aircraft type New York (JFK) Tokyo Haneda (HND) 10:00 a.m. 1:05 p.m. (next day) Boeing 777-200 HND JFK 3:05 ...

Re: Turkish Aviation - October 2023

TK delays large aircraft order again, I was hoping an order at Dubai Airshow next month but unlikely. https://samchui.com/2023/10/29/ceo-talks-turkish-airlines-large-aircraft-order-delayed-and-leasing-34-aircraft/ Genuinely shocked. Just like I am when the idea of Australian services gets put on ic...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

DOT late this afternoon dismissed the United request.for Hawaiian Air nighttime HND frequencies. In its decision, DOT stated Hawaiian may retain use of its nighttime Kona/Honolulu-Haneda services and the carrier has committed to fully using them by March 2024. Ultimately, it does not believe the pu...

Re: Routes you've flown that are no longer served

Only SJ (Freedom Air NZ) Palmerston North - Brisbane for me; unless we include closed airports too, then I'd also have China Eastern Chengdu (CTU) - Wuxi.

Aaron747 wrote:

KIX-LAX (JL)
KIX-CNS (JQ)

Re: Lufthansa hub at Dusseldorf

DUS was a 'hub' (more like a focus city) for LH, as was TXL, HAM, STR. DUS had flights to the US (did they have one to Asia as well; perhaps NRT?) using MUC or FRA based aircraft on a W pattern. Just like HAM, TXL and STR, all of the LH mainline flights in/out of Germany were centralized at FRA and ...

Re: US-Haneda frequency award proposals

I guess AA will be putting a B777 onto their proposed JFK-HND, since JFK is not a B787 base for them. Presumably the B777-200ER?

Re: Why didn't Delta Air Lines using retro aircraft livery paint?

What other airlines do this today? Really it's a question of 'Why does AA do it?'

Re: Emirates non-stop to JFK 2004.

Are you sure it was 2005? I was working at Dnata in MEL in 2008 and sure we didn’t get the 777 until 2009/10 maybe? Loved the 345 - but they were getting very very unreliable towards the end! It was EK404 which routed DXB-SIN-MEL-AKL. This flight used everything from the 332, 772, 77E, 773... then ...

Re: Air Canada News and Discussion - 2023

B77W’s aren’t going anywhere, they are still excellent aircraft and can fly for another 13-15 years. The 8 original A333’s are what will be replaced, as will the (already retired) Rouge B763’s. I agree about future additional used A333’s - makes sense. Any chance we might see an A330NEO order down ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2023

Does the E190 have the range for ADL-AKL with pax? Probably yes. With 2400nm range it should be able to carry full passengers and bags in all but the strongest headwinds westbound. That said, I don’t think it’s at all likely. Did we ever establish if the QLink E190s were equipped for overwater oper...

Re: What are your longest flights this year?

So far, DL SEA-HND. Still to come, SQ LAX-NRT.

Re: What 5th freedoms have you flown?

Lots of Aussies/Kiwis with their Trans-Tasman EK flights! For me its:

EK: BNE/MEL-AKL
LA: AKL-SYD
QF: SIN-LHR/FRA
ET: NRT-ICN
CA: MUC-ATH

Re: Airline had planned new city but never made to flight

EK to PTY.
TK to SYD and MEL. Plans have been "announced" for years, yet no flights.