Qantas wants to serve India post-COVID Source: https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-india-flights IF this happens, and with BNE-BOM (or was it DEL???) being one of the higher demanding routes not being served pre-COVID, could it be from BNE perhaps? Seeming to recall it was initially no s...
Jump to postHow would the maintenance costs of an E190 compare to the F100? Both are comparatively sized aircraft, could the E190 be cheaper for maintenance and have better availability and supply of spare parts?
Jump to postWhy would EY want to invest in other airlines when pretty much all their previous airline investments have failed?
Jump to postI remember the QF A332 doing AKL-LAX. Of course AA is now covering AKL-LAX on a 789. I think its time for QF to launch SYD-ICN or SYD-BOM. BKK, SIN, CGK, DPS, HKG, PVG & NRT/HND are already covered. Perhaps testing the waters by sending JQ to ICN to start with? Has already been announced - JQ49...
Jump to postflyingisthebest wrote:I would like to see them do Jakarta to Brisbane as it’s a route currently unserved directly and should be doable with a MAX when they come back online.
Another one they could do is AKL-DPS as it’s currently only Air NZ on it.
EK reports they are dropping BNE-SIN due to significant losses on the route. Actions like this don’t normally indicate the capacity needs to be replaced. The 77W may well have been overkill on the route, particularly with a distinct lack of connections in Singapore. Coupled with a potential lack of...
Jump to postThey left BOM in 2011 or so. On the outbound the A330 stopped at Cairns or Darwin IIRC. Will they ever return? In the meantime, AI has begun DEL-MEL and DEL-SYD. It originally had a stop in DRW, but in the later days it was via Singapore. The SIN-BOM leg had the QF52 flight number, which continued ...
Jump to postI also don’t understand using BNE. I’m sure the QLD government and BNE airport are paying a pretty penny. However, they don’t use A330s on BNE-PER so it’ll be interesting how they rotate aircraft. If they pull it off MEL/SYD-HKG, well the HKG situation couldn’t come at a worse time. I doubt many ai...
Jump to postIs AC limited by the bilaterals on their YVR-MEL route? I seem to recall it was an issue when MEL was opened for them as both SYD and BNE are daily. Unless I’m mistaken and the bilaterals were never an issue or haven’t been updated to allow YVR-MEL to go daily The 2015 amended agreement appears to ...
Jump to postIs AC limited by the bilaterals on their YVR-MEL route? I seem to recall it was an issue when MEL was opened for them as both SYD and BNE are daily. Unless I’m mistaken and the bilaterals were never an issue or haven’t been updated to allow YVR-MEL to go daily
Jump to postInteresting perspective here about the increase prices. Actually I have noticed that LAX-SYD/MEL on UA lately have been cheaper than 5 years ago with 747 - I can find around $500-600 roundtrip compare with $1500 in 2014. There is now a lot more competition on the LAX-SYD route with UA, AA, DL, QF a...
Jump to postCould AirNorth be considering the E190 to compliment their E170’s?
Jump to postCan somebody explain how Qantas is supposed to launch all these new routes while at the same time replacing 9 747s with only 6 787s? QF have ordered 14 in total, so an easy replacement. QF15/16 has already swapped to the 789, while QF have added an extra 3-4x weekly BNE-LAX-BNE as QF55/56 depending...
Jump to postNo empathy for these people - they choose to live near an airport and very likely moved to their current address with full knowledge of the airport and associated noise that goes with it. If they don’t want the noise then it’s a simple decision to move where they reside to one less noisy and not nea...
Jump to postPanzerPowner wrote:c933103 wrote:I'd say the upper echelon of air travel is Boeing there. Except for ANA A321 NEO. But the LCC market is almost exclusively A320 in Japan.Japan and Boeing?
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FA9295 wrote:I think SYD-SEA/YVR has been mentioned before; I'm not sure if that's even realistic at all, though...
Thai Airways BKK-BNE still at 4 weekly for NW18/19 however 788 will be replaced by 772 https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/280981/malaysia-airlines-w18-international-changes-as-of-11oct18/ Wow, they've gone from twice daily a couple of months ago (unsure if still double-daily?) to les...
Jump to postAir Niugini have issued a press release on Facebook indicating it landed short of the runway.
https://www.facebook.com/88806860236/po ... 708720237/
Did I miss an announcement that Qantas will launch PER-LAX, or is this just normal, lousy reporting from The West Australian and Geoffrey Thomas? https://thewest.com.au/news/aviation/pictured-boeing-777x-which-will-fly-non-stop-from-perth-to-los-angeles-ng-b88961669z Both I’d say - it’s poorly writ...
Jump to postWill be interesting to know it is considered “QF’s most profitable route”. Is it maybe profit per flight operated; profit per passenger; profit per week; profit per month; or some kind of other way of measuring profitability?
Jump to postI agree. I don’t think the extended range a321 is going to be the game changer in the ANZ market that people think it’s going to be. It will enable DPS to go single aisle, thus removing the need for an expensive wide body on the route from the east coast. But what else will it enable? All thIt migh...
Jump to postEK have announced changes to MEL and BNE DXB-SIN-BNE will now leave at 2115 with a day flight SIN-BNE 1030ish - 1930 arrival in BNE The 2nd direct flight will now leave at around 0100 for a 2130. Cant remember the MEL flight change completely aside from that the SIN-MEL will now arrive MEL just aft...
Jump to postCebu might be a new destination coming for Australia. Cebu-Mactan airport chasing BNE flights and may be launched soon. https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-business/2018/07/24/1836284/mcia-operator-works-more-direct-flights Obvious airlines to narrow it down to are PR and 5J. Any options as t...
Jump to postI wonder if EK is also looking at reshuffling the BNE schedule. At the moment their three daily departures from BNE are at 2100, 2350 and 0235. I’m of the opinion EK need to retime EK435 for a mid morning departure, roughly 9-10am. Saves the 77W/A380 (depends on the time of the year) sitting on the...
Jump to postoskarclare wrote:Looking forward to BR 789's in BNE and hopefully increasing to daily.
Why 24 weekly fights out of SFO? There is no way this city has that much demand to SIN. Additionally, SIN is geographically a very poor place to connect from anywhere in NA. I feel like this is becoming an arms race between UA and SQ. Not forgetting the demand from connecting pax - not all the dema...
Jump to postLA s 787 SCL to AKL/SYD service is even worse in terms of risk. Half way between there really is no place to land. No Shemya island to land your 777 at and no Azores to glide your A330 to. 330 minutes can get very long. I believe the Arctic Pacific/south polar route should not be allowed to be flow...
Jump to postHopefully it doesn’t end up with KQ and/or the Kenyan government deciding to stop other airlines flying into NBO, let alone jacking up airport usage fees for airlines other than KQ. Maybe the Kenyan government should also look at geting a Kenyan based aviation fuel company merged into KQ for cheap o...
Jump to postSounds oddly like an ex partner of mine, who was apparently such a nervous flyer he'd already be dosed up on valium and drunk to the hilt before he would even step onto the aircraft, except with much worse grammar. As a "nervous flyer", maybe you need look at either moving to a city where ...
Jump to postabrelosojos wrote:Can someone educate me on why Townsville has no real internal service?
Saludos,
Alex
CZ is starting to really do well on BNE. They are averring around 14500 passengers per month. A second daily must really be on the cards especially in Summer. Its one of Brisbane's strongest international routes. 14,500 arrivals per month for CZ into BNE would mean a load factor of over 150% as the...
Jump to postCZ is starting to really do well on BNE. They are averring around 14500 passengers per month. A second daily must really be on the cards especially in Summer. Its one of Brisbane's strongest international routes. 14,500 arrivals per month for CZ into BNE would mean a load factor of over 150% as the...
Jump to postWhen I used to commute to China regularly, it was hard to get anywhere other than Hong Kong (even Beijing had limited connections), now I can basically choose any secondary city and get there direct. I'm surprised many of the routes exist even with the very high level of inbound tourism - Melbourne...
Jump to postDid EK forget their cargo/freight division, Skycargo?
Jump to postIf AirAsia can put nine across seating in an aircraft where every one else has eight across, an AirAsia 787 order could revolve around a paradigm shifting ten across seating configuration. I am not too sure of many passengers who would be pleased with that. Uh, Lion Air, Air Caraibes, Air Tansat, t...
Jump to postI'm not convinced WTB is well placed to serve as a compelling International SEQ gateway. Even from Ipswich CBD, OOL is only marginally further than WTB. The further east from Ipswich CBD you go the closer to OOL you get. If D7 want better coverage of SEQ without actually flying to BNE. They would b...
Jump to postWouldn’t Air China be more interested in trying to get PEK-BNE from 3x weekly to Daily before starting CTU?
Jump to post^^Is the indefinite hold due to manufacturers engine issues? Are you suggesting the A343 is on charter from HiFly? Not at all suggesting either - I haven’t heard of any potential delays due to engine issues for PR’s A321neo’s, and am well aware the PR will be flying their own A343’s to BNE - am say...
Jump to postAccording to the following re JQ A321LR order Providing DPS goes all A321LR from MEL, SYD and BNE, on current capacity MEL-DPS will require 3 daily and both SYD and BNE to DPS will required to go from a daily service to 10 weekly. By DPS going to A321LR it would free up 4 788's, what sort of new ro...
Jump to postPhilippine Airlines this week filed additional changes for Manila – Brisbane route, effective from 01MAY18. The airline will continue to operate 3 weekly flights with Airbus A340-300, instead of 4 weekly Airbus A321neo. Source: https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/277281/philippine-air...
Jump to post2. New Zealand-Indonesia: EK's new DXB-DPS-AKL is a Clever movement becoming the first direct link between Bali and NZ and Also EK is boosting Europe-Bali market, one of QR's top routes (now both serve Bali 3 times per day). First direct link between Bali and NZ? NZ have been flying DPS-AKL for qui...
Jump to postFJ have been known to fly the A332 here previously, but it was rarely. I even have a photo of an Air Pacific 763 at the international terminal before the rebranding to Fiji Airways.
Jump to postMy favourite bit about the BNE-LAX-JFK announcement is that there were a lot of posters on this board that were adamant that it would be too much of a drop in capacity to pull the 744 off. Obviously not! That was under the assumption of one for one replacement on QF15/16, not with the addition of t...
Jump to postI'm tipping the 4x weekly will go to BNE-ORD/DFW whilst the other 3x weekly frequencies are either going to extra BNE-LAX frequencies year round in addition to the daily BNE-LAX-JFK or rotated seasonally between seasonal extra BNE-LAX and BNE-SFO Seattle had been leaked by another news source a few...
Jump to postAA, for example, flew almost 80bn empty ASKMs in 2016 and still made a huge profit. Ok, compare 2016 numbers AA-81.5% load factor with ~402K departures. EK-75% load factor with ~187K departures. Last time AA had load factor below 80% was in 2004. And AA is not ordering planes like there is no tomor...
Jump to postHBA aiming to get a long-haul flight to Asia by 2022. See: https://blueswandaily.com/hobart-airport-to-review-terminal-capacity-in-light-of-growing-demand/. I could see a 3 x weekly service on SQ developing. Cheers, C. I’m also throwing CZ into the mix as a potential option, maybe HU as an outside ...
Jump to postOn the topic of JQ 787s: JQ are improving the 787 schedule/utilization from FEB which will see BNE-DPS-BNE becoming daily, and MEL-DPS-MEL becoming double daily. JQ are also eliminating most of the domestic 787 tag flights. From the end of March 2018 MEL-SIN-MEL will be reduced with the freed up fl...
Jump to postOn the topic of JQ 787s: JQ are improving the 787 schedule/utilization from FEB which will see BNE-DPS-BNE becoming daily, and MEL-DPS-MEL becoming double daily. JQ are also eliminating most of the domestic 787 tag flights. From the end of March 2018 MEL-SIN-MEL will be reduced with the freed up fl...
Jump to postPredictions for BNE: EY add a second daily flight with 789 Tianjin start BNE in September Malaysia start BNE mid year Royal Brunei start with a320Neo in the latter part of the year NH start a BNE-TYO around the 3rd-4th quarter Xiamen and Sichuan start routes from China in the 3rdq (18) -1stq (19) V...
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