qf789 wrote:I'm struggling to see how they can do double daily to A388 to HKG when the other 11 are doing the normal rotations (QF1,2,7,8,9,10,11,12,93,94)
How many 717s are left Perth based? Interesting QF seem to live theirs, and they fit a good niche. But VA couldn't make the 190s work in a similar nice. A key difference is that E190s are operated by mainline VA crews., whereas QF 717s are operated by Cobham on behalf of Qantaslink. I imagine there...
Jump to postTG currently have a daily SYD morning peak arrival / mid morning departure, which is the only really congested time of the day. The 4 * weekly is a strange night arrival and afternoon departure. Whether this night arrival does the morning departure 4 days per week or sits on the ground for 18 hours...
Jump to postThe 737-400s are needed for Koh Samui. The A320s are too large to operate and they don't want a small fleet of A319s or 737-700s Thai recently started codesharing with Bangkok Airways, so it could be cheaper for Thai to just add a code to BKK-USM and ditch the 734s. I guess they will be deployed to...
Jump to postUnfortunately, I agree about the LR. Whilst cities like SIN/MNL/KUL are reachable from MEL, it lacks the range to many major markets in Thailand, China, Korea and Japan (though CNS/BNE-NRT is possible). Probably not worth having a fleet that can only serve a lot of cities that can already justify a...
Jump to postYou're really naive if you think the new airport won't be full of shops and offering expensive parking. When the airport is new it will need to attract airlines & passengers away from using SYD. It's not enough to offer airlines lower landing/terminal charges if pax don't want to fly there (see...
Jump to postThat's an interesting schedule. I wonder if it's due to aircraft, or slots in HKG. Now add lounge confusion and it's an interest proposition. I wonder if a schedule like that impacts corperate customers, or they aren't phased. Slots most likely, seems HX didn't want to give up many slots for VA to ...
Jump to postCHC should be a successful route for CX with the tourist traffic from China, I expect this route to go year round sometime in 2019. I would have thought CZ caters better to the mainland tourist traffic, as their lower costs could support the lower yields; and their 787 has a higher proportion of Y ...
Jump to postBecause it's a ridiculous, unnecessary route, that would've been a waste of an airframe. VA don't need it, any pax they do/did have can be accommodated on the EY flights. It wasn't unnecessary when EY was short of aircraft, as they could fill the plane for VA (remember when VA wet leased a 77W 1x w...
Jump to postQantas have an in-house maintenance base in LAX! While primarily A380 line maintenance they will continue to support their 747 fleet so long as they choose to operate them there, and worse case scenario you get the part dispatched from Seattle in a few hours. Agreed - you can't really get much clos...
Jump to postlog0008 wrote:VA to launch Hong Kong flights mid year - tipped to be MEL-HKG.
qf002 wrote:This must be a resumption, I distinctly remember flying SYD-PPP and return on JQ about ten years ago.
readytotaxi wrote:http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/help-in-disruption/strike/latest-information
Don't call us yet we don't know what we are doing.
Did not know they had 5 types of cabin crew?
I'm old enough to remember when we all had to sit in the cabin and be sprayed with insecticide when we arrived at an Australian entry port. mariner This still happens on some airlines, especially those with few flights to Australia. I had it on BA SIN-SYD in 2013. Interesting that the QF flights to...
Jump to postHi, long time lurker, first time poster... So I notice on expertflyer a lot of QF international flights to Asian destinations (SYD-SIN, SYD-MNL, MEL-HKG, etc) utilising A333 and A332 seem to have very light loading in economy cabins even for flights departing in next few days. I'm talking loadings ...
Jump to postKE ICN-HNL I suppose you mean KE's (ICN)-NRT-HNL? CI are also there (TPE)-NRT-HNL; and D7 are soon to start (KUL)-NRT-HNL. A few more that involve the US: CX (HKG)-YVR-JFK PR (MNL)-YVR-JFK ET (ADD)-DUB-LAX SA (JNB)-ACC-IAD & (JNB)-DKR-IAD LA (SCL)-PUJ-MIA HY (TAS)-RIX-JFK As for those involving...
Jump to postallrite wrote:smi0006 wrote:Nice to see QF returning to PEK!
SYD-PEK QF107 13:50/22:40,
PEK-SYD QF108 00:15/14:55 or 00:20/14:55
Virgin has just announced that they will be selling off TT's fleet of A320s and replacing them with ex-VA 737-800s. Also the news article seems to imply they will be selling the E190 fleet but not sure if this just covers what was already announced and some will remain. Source: http://www.theaustra...
Jump to postIn five years I see American operating to at least a few of the following intercontinental destinations from LA: LIM CDG TXL MAD ICN TPE CTU KIX BNE SIN TLV DOH HEL MAN TXL - AA doesn't even fly there from the east coast, it's too low yielding for long haul MAD - IB flies it in summer, so AA alread...
Jump to postI was thinking of NRN (Dusseldorf-Weeze), which is also almost a Ryanair-only airport and I think NRN is bigger than WMI. Transavia does have some charter flights out of NRN, but they also use the 737 so it still qualifies. WMI handled 2,588,175 pax in 2015, NRN 1,909,704 pax (figures from Wikipedi...
Jump to postI don't know what the largest such airport would be, but WMI (Warsaw-Modlin) comes to mind as a Ryanair-only airport. WMI seems to be the largest Ryanair-only airport (most others also host Wizzair). PIK is quite a bit smaller. UKB (Kobe, Japan) has 4 airlines who all fly Boeing, had 2,532,869 pax ...
Jump to postLion Air has 3 A333 configured with 440 seats. They replaced 556-seat 744s, primarily for flights to Saudi Arabia. JT also use these A333s on high capacity domestic routes like CGK-DPS.
Jump to postallrite wrote:JB couldn't confirm how much of the flying would actually be on Virgin metal.
How would a DOH-ADL-MEL-DOH flight fit in with bilaterals? Typically stopping in an unrestricted port - ADL/CNS/DRW etc - allows the flight to continue to a restricted port, even if you have used all the available capacity. An example would be the previous HKG-ADL-MEL-HKG route or the current HKG-C...
Jump to postFrom what http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/breaking-news/virgin-aust-to-raise-852m-cut-fleet/news-story/df9fd5afdf11200a71dccbf3b71c659e seems to be reporting the ATR and E190 fleets are both gone, does this mean the smaller ports on the East Coast are now probably getting cut? The language ...
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