Re: New QR Route Thread

I can see Longyearbyen being next announced by the man himself.

Jokes aside, one destination I feel they could add is Surabaya. Currently none of the ME3 serve Indonesia’s 2nd largest city . Quite surprising really.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - August 2018

An interesting development - WA and PER officials will be in India this week, to convince airlines to start direct flights to PER. Specifically on the trip, there'll be: - Tourism Minister, Paul Papalia - Perth Airport CEO, Kevin Brown - Tourism WA’s aviation adviser, Andrew McEvoy In their sights ...

Re: Italian Government lobbying for direct QF PER-FCO

I love the way diplomats and ambassadors just mouth off their wish lists like this. I’m sure the Canadian ambassador to Vietnam is pushing for a Kamloops-Danang link too.... Back to the point, the only possibility of QF ever returning to Rome will be from the east coast. Also, it will need a codesha...

Re: Why Qatar Airways didn't get slot increase in Canada like Emirates and Etihad?

Because Qatar is Qatar and UAE is UAE. Two different countries.
I’m sure Canada/Qatar will pursue any bilateral changes of their own as and when they feel the need to.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2018

The hysteria and mayhem over Perth losing a flight for about 6 weeks is ridiculous. You guys do realise this is impacting some 95% of the entire EK network and not just Perth. The way it’s being discussed is a typical Perth attitude. Where only Perth, and only Perth exists.

Re: WOW Air appears to be axing TLV

It made no sense really, flying a small airbus 321 on such a local distance and having it on the ground for such a long time. If the yield was mega amazing I get it, but I doubt that was ever the case. Or if it was a larger airbus 330 for economies of scale it could’ve worked.

Re: Delta to ban pit bulls as service or emotional support

This sort of nonsense of having an emotional support animal/puppet/blow up doll/chandelier can only happen in America . I just don’t get it. In all of my 35 plus years of travelling as an adult around the world (Europe, Asia, Australasia primarily ) I have never seen nor heard of this situation occu...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2018

According to Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Tewolde Gebremariam, the airline is looking at flying to MEL via BKK, SIN or SEZ. In a related news, Ethiopian is planning to connect Africa with Australia by air transport. On the sidelines of the 74th Annual General Meeting of the International Air Transp...

Re: Unbearable stench from passenger causes emergency landing

These passengers must have been booked on the codeshare flight number offered by SCAT.

Re: Man sues for mental anguish after flight lands at wrong airport

Only in America.
Enough said...

Re: UAE bans Tunisian females/EK flights banned/EK bans females from Tunisia

dz09 wrote:

this has to do with curbing prostitution in the UAE especially during new years celebrations. the ban is temporary.

Re: A long report on the longest flight in the world - Business Class on Qatar's 777-200LR Auckland to Doha

Great report. Great photos! Always wanted to know what the world's longest flight was like!

Ignore certain comments about your report looking a little old. It's not the case at all.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread - October 2017

Well I never saw this coming. Emirates will can all remaining Australia-AKL A380 services, leaving it with a sole DXB-AKL non-stop service. Looks like the QF/EK tie up is getting a lot loser now. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11931831 So AKL goes from having...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2017

WA government is on a charm offensive to get new flights into the West. Talks next month with JAL and ANA to get direct services and talks with Garuda to try and get daily Perth-Jakarta flights. https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-government-bids-to-get-more-direct-flights-from-asian-destinations-to-...

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread - September 2017

On another note, what is the international line up at CHC this summer? Is it: CZ - 788 daily EK - A388 daily CI - A333 4x weekly via ? SQ - 772 daily FJ ? 738 VA ? 738 QF ? 738 Anything missing? CX A350 3x weekly NZ 789 for PER Potentially OZ 772 if their charters were to go ahead CI is via MEL Is ...

Re: Hawaiian Airlines to expand AKL service

Smart movie really considering that both UA and AA will be offline during the winter months from March onwards. This displaced capacity will be picked up by Hawainn Airlines to some extent. Hopefuly they will go daily in the not too distant future.

Re: Air Austral to purchase and manage Air Madagascar for 10-years

Bombay? Jeez, I can see why Air Madagascar is at a loss if it still thinks the year is 1996 or something !!

Re: Could Fiji Airways become the Icelandair in the South Pacific?

I think the main reason that FJ could never be an FI is because Fiji is very much isolated from the mass population centres that Iceland is lucky to be in the middle of. Aust/NZ with some 30ish million people one one side, and North America some 10ish hours away on the other. Not really going to wor...

Re: Rumour: SAS to fly to AKL ?!

It's always amusing when staff (who are more likely to be from an outsourced agent than the airline itself) who really don't have confirmed facts casually throw out chinese whispers as "news". Zero chance of this ever happening. Heck, SAS cant even get Singapore or Bangkok to work for them...

Re: Qantas to start seasonal SYD-KIX

waoz1 wrote:

Missing the market in WA, 89 Japanese companies in Perth alone. No direct flights :/

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread - April 2017

Does anyone on the group have a sense of how Singapore are going with their Capital Connection between Wellington/Canberra/Singapore? Speaking for myself based upon one flight I took on Good friday CBR-WLG, the entire plane was 100% full. I was in business class and it was chockers. From what I not...

Re: New Zealand Aviation - March 2017

BA yes good point. TG never served CHC AFAIK, rumoured several times though. I'm pretty sure they did operate 1x weekly BKK-CHC-AKL for a short period with a DC10, but it didn't last long at all. It was I think some time in the late '80s. Having said that, I'm open to correction, even though it's q...

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2017

SQ reviewing Canberra-Wellington http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-21/singapore-airlines-announce-review-of-canberra-route/8371370 Hmm, that article seems to provide no real sway as to what SQ's intentions are, and given the service is not even 6 months old, I think it is too premature to make any...

Re: CX to start Christchurch, New Zealand

This is great news. And should be no a brainer. I can easily see the initial season being extended for another month or so atleast. Having this service go year round should happen sooner rather than later, I think.

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread 185

Mr Gardermoen, what we need is a copy of Gardermoen, I think a Gardermoen like concept would be perfect for Auckland, it's one of my favourit airports, apart from the expensive food and the long walk to the infamous Gate 19 it's just about perfect. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d...

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread 185

The sequencing at AKL is rubbish. That is a big problem. As someone who works and travels as a passenger a lot I note the biggest terminal limitations. 1) Departures are the same level as arrivals for drop off/pick up 2) Internally Check in is on the wrong floor. It should be on the upper level 3) ...

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread 185

With AA, I disagree with the marketing aspect, prior to the AA resumption I remember seeing many billboard around Auckland city promoting this service, in association with QF. I think they had that covered pretty well, given how advertising in the airline industry can be hit and miss. UA, on the oth...

Re: Emirates in Bandar Abbas?

I remember seeing Bandar Abbas on the route map in 1990. They stopped the service sometime around the Gulf War I think. I recall they used the B727 for this service.

Re: TATL A320 Service from airberlin

Looks like Etihad are on a mission to kill this airline off as quickly as possible. An Airbus 320 on such a long flight? Seriously who in their right mind would ever choose that.

Re: Singapore Airlines launches Stockholm may 2017

Nice to see SQ FINALLY reach the Swedish capital,. I have been waiting for this service for years. I am surprised it will be via Moscow, I would have thought a 3 x weekly non-stop Airbus 350 service (just like they do Dusseldorf) would've been just ideal. I am certain within a year they will make it...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread Part 147

Flights for LA's new MEL-SCL service have now been loaded into the GDS and is bookable ! :) LA805 SCL 12:55 - 17:55+1 MEL 146 789 LA804 MEL 19:55 - 19:00 SCL 257 789 Congratulations for MEL, SCL and LA, this will be MEL's first connection into Sth America in a very long time! Wow, surprised the tim...

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread Part 184

Not sure how accurate all these WLG-CBR-SIN number are, but I really wonder if this service should be enhanced to offer more flexibility by making it daily, as well as modifying the timings so that it coincides with the European flight bank at SIN as opposed to the Asian bank. If CBR-SIN is strong o...

Re: LAN SCL - MEL in 2017

I was in Santiago last December. I was so excited to not only be going to South America for the first time, but also because I was going to Santiago. My excitement was quickly diminished shortly after arriving. My god was Santiago a DUMP. It felt like a third world country. For a city that size tha...

Re: New Zealand Aviation Thread Part 184

I can see HBA and CBR being the strongest contenders to join the network hopefully soon. Also, with the focus on Australia-Americas traffic, surely it is ripe for both CNS and MCY to go year round by now.

Re: LAN SCL - MEL in 2017

Agree with ahj2000 that this would make more sense to launch with an AKL stop over, whilst allowing the well established SYD route to go non-stop. Regardless, LAN/LATAM have been considering MEL for many years now. I hope this rumour does come true, it will be a welcome addition here. The Internatio...

Re: Etihad ending Minsk

Thought there would be plenty of workers in the "pleasure industry" heading to the UAE to make this flight viable.

Re: Why no BA to Manila?

You are right, J343 - they do not codeshare. They did a few years ago as I remember seeing it in the BA magazine.

I think CGK is partially in the same boat - but there is a stronger home base market with some premium demand. SQ , in this case has a VERY strong market in Indonesia,