Latest route update from CH Aviation, has Batik Air suspending Adelaide - Denpaser from July 22nd. VA also recently (quietly) pulled their ADL-DPS non-stops as well from end of April 2024. I'm guessing VA are confident (in the pending IASC application) of at least getting one, if not both of the th...
Jump to postThird time lucky for NTL-AKL, after the SJ and VA attempts? Perhaps JQ will try it this time? Newcastle Airport foresees daily international flights post-upgrade Newcastle Airport could seek daily international flights, including to New Zealand ... once its upgrades are complete. Newcastle Airport ...
Jump to postConsidering SEQ has BNE and OOL, and to a minor extent MCY. It could be guessed that NTL may play the MCY equivalent role in Greater Sydney/Newcastle. International (if any) likely to be largely seasonal, and probably unlikely to see long haul to Asia, with only a very tiny/slim chance of (seasonal)...
Jump to postWhich new routes might NTL secure once its terminal is upgraded with border facilities by next year? They claim that NTL has enough demand for double daily flights to SIN (!) - maybe on a SQ 737MAX? Newcastle Airport foresees daily international flights post-upgrade Newcastle Airport could seek dai...
Jump to postVA are capped by seats on Australia-DPS (non-stop services) out of the 4 state capitals of SYD, MEL, BNE and PER. Airbuses and Fokkers are still on the VARA certificate. Saying that, can't see Private Equity pivoting from their all-Boeing mainline approach, and starting another subsidiary (or using ...
Jump to postWhich new routes might NTL secure once its terminal is upgraded with border facilities by next year? They claim that NTL has enough demand for double daily flights to SIN (!) - maybe on a SQ 737MAX? Newcastle Airport foresees daily international flights post-upgrade Newcastle Airport could seek dai...
Jump to postSpeaking of GUM, I'd love to see UA resume GUM-Australia in some way, maybe BNE instead of CNS? Connect it to their Japan bank, whack a VA codeshare on it too! Those days are LONG gone. GUM traffic is now mostly point to point. Years ago GUM also functioned as a transit hub, but there's now way UA ...
Jump to postCan't see VA making an exception for international lounge access in Cairns considering Private Equity's Value Carrier approach (I E bare minimum with Domestic Lounges and only international partner lounge access in lounges only operated by partners if booked on a VA code)
Jump to postQF could theoretically send their QFLink branded (Alliance) E190 to operate ADL-DRW-SIN complete with the 'D sticker system' for the domestic tag leg. But it's not to be, and assumedly/probably easier for QF(Link) to originate the SIN service in DRW.
Jump to postHawaiian Airlines 787 N781HA inbound to BNE as HA9805. would this be just a test flight for crew familiarisation or could it be a proving flight for a new route? N781HA is on a FAA proving run to an out-of-network airport prior to beginning revenue service. While HA did service BNE thrice-weekly fo...
Jump to postLion Group's Batik Air (both Indonesia and Malaysia) are a complete mess on Australian ops. ID wasn't able to make SYD/MEL-DPS work year round (reducing to NW seasonal until end of December) despite providing J recliners, most of the high yield leisure are either picking QF's J recliners (ex-MEL), o...
Jump to postIs there any chance GA may expand AU ops again from DPS or CGK? Seems AU carriers have maxed out DPS capacity, surely there is demand for GA to compete with QF/VA with 330 or 738 - have they ever used narrow bodies to east coast AU? I’d love to see GA link up with ZL as a frequent flyer partner, Au...
Jump to postFollowing Silk Airs suspension of the route, 3K have announced SIN-BME seasonally starting June 25th running until October 26th, 2x weekly. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/jetstar-flights-broome-singapore-direct-route-south-east-asia/103640242 Presuming QF will codeshare on this? Will it con...
Jump to postFlyBonza (at the time of post) is (or has) updated their website to allow direct website bookings after initially limiting the bookings to the App and Third Party Travel Agents only.
https://www.flybonza.com/
As stated previously, unlikely VA will be re-entering the 'big 3' trans Tasman markets when VA have a pending application to both NZCC and ACCC to re-sell NZ seats to their customers as a travel agent under a one way codeshare agreement. Whilst there has been submissions from Airports opposing the a...
Jump to postThey were 4x daily to BNE pre pandemic. I would think Australia is their biggest region isn’t it, or country at least, you could add NZ to the Oceania region where they have up to 4 daily flight to AKL/CHC. CBR/OOL hmm possible? Do TR still serve OOL? One of the x4 BNE-SIN flights pre-Covid was als...
Jump to postSQ’s expansion in AU always impresses me - just saw they are adding 4 more weekly flights into BNE. Is Australia their biggest region? Could we ever see them back in CBR, or even OOL would they be too far for a 73M? They were 4x daily to BNE pre pandemic. I would think Australia is their biggest re...
Jump to postSQ’s expansion in AU always impresses me - just saw they are adding 4 more weekly flights into BNE. Is Australia their biggest region? Could we ever see them back in CBR, or even OOL would they be too far for a 73M? Too far for a 38M at full MTOW. Will very likely be load restricted, making CBR or ...
Jump to postI do wonder if Airnorth is looking at more dry-leases from QQ in the future. They already dry-lease their x3 E190 fleet from QQ.
Jump to postAKL-LHR on QF you mean? I don’t think so. Re JFK again, from AKL as PS you mean? I wouldn’t think so given QF can do PS from SYD, if AKL stays surely stays a 789? Probably next to zero chance of QF putting a Sunrise A350 on AKL-LHR (let alone JFK). There were on record stating they want to maximise...
Jump to postBut you can’t run bi-directional connections between AKL and PER even with 2 daily flights. The timings just don’t line up. The best you could do with 2 daily is target AKL-JFK or PER-LHR, but not both. That’s before you note that PER-AKL-JFK would require a very early departure from PER, and LHR-P...
Jump to postSeeing videos of ITA’s new 321LR configuration makes me think of the possibilities of QF went down the path of a subfleet with something similar. SYD: KUL, TPE, SGN, frequency increases to BKK/MNL, third daily SIN (redeye west with a morning departure ex SIN) MEL: BKK, MNL, daily CGK BNE: HKG, seco...
Jump to postThis will be the first new route or return service to NZ for 2024 Hopefully not the last! TG and PR next! :bouncy: Hopefully TG... we could still hear something about October this year for a relaunch, but my pick is it won't be until next year. There hasn't been anything published that I'm aware of...
Jump to postFollowing up on the earlier news articles of VARA looking at E190 or A220 to replace their F100 sub-fleet, VA formally confirms in a press release that they are at least looking at a sub-fleet of 4 aircraft to replace the F100s for their FIFO/Charter services https://newsroom.virginaustralia.com/rel...
Jump to postPerhaps they need to follow DLs foot steps and launch a partnership with Rex for additional Aussie feed. https://www.rex.com.au/BlobViewer/BlobViewer.aspx?attachtype=MR&filename=324C6165566E494C2F31584F4E35653139304E3578324772795775776E56666B4B7441422F5A4647517262656345525A32654D4F3865733557455...
Jump to postI remember seeing a post from someone about two A220 configs for QantasLink and Qantas Domestic. This will not be the case. All aircraft under the current order are for the one AOC and will not feature any differences to the cabin configuration/entertainment options. Those posts appear to have been...
Jump to postQF's had multiple (failed) attempts at launching ORD ex Australia in the past. Fleet resources permitting in the medium term when the final 2 A380s return to service would be freeing up at least 2 789 units, which could be sent to ORD via AKL at 3 or 4 weekly initially.
Jump to postI'd suggest it may be QF vs UA on AKL-ORD in the short/medium term future as QF/AA could consider turning AKL into a "scissor hub" with the ORD flight originating from MEL to compliment the existing SYD-AKL-JFK. It's very difficult to see QF go back to their pre Covid plan of BNE-ORD, with...
Jump to postA long time lurker on this thread, I have a question. The Malaysia Airport Berhad, the main operator of KLIA, is reporting they are courting Qantas in resuming SYD-KUL with rumoured 4x weekly flight in 2025. Anyone have heard anything about this? Qantas suspended its flights to Kuala Lumpur in 1999...
Jump to postJQ 3x weekly out of BNE using the 'non-contact' bays (similar to JQ's arrangement for their ICN/NRT/KIX flights where JQ parks in non-contact bays) may also be suitable for any potential BNE-DUD service. Using the non-contact bays would at least allow avgeeks the opportunity to film/take photos clos...
Jump to postRex has announced a new interline agreement with Etihad Airways. Not sure if this means anything for Etihad's existing agreements with VA: Thought it a little amusing that an interline agreement was worthy of an ASX announcement, but what do I know - the stock has popped 3.8% in morning trading. It...
Jump to postFor now the ZL interline should not affect the current FF/Velocity partnership between EY and VA
However, it may hint towards the start of formal FF partnership divorce proceedings for VA if the EY/ZL evolves into a codeshare in the future for ZL to offer Middle East/Europe destinations through EY
REX 737 VH-RQG (formerly VA’s VUF) ferried to Alice Springs today, likely to be parted out and scrapped. I wonder why they are getting rid of it so soon? It was a 2005 build, likely that it had run out of cycles/hours before a heavy check was required. Aren’t ZL’s 738s all leased? The owner probabl...
Jump to postSFO-SYD goes back to a daily 77W for NS? That’s right, so 2x 77W in summer, 77W+772 in March, and 1x 77W in northern summer. Be interesting to see what they schedule next NW for SYD-SFO? Seems a bit of over capacity but possibly good freight loads granting the use for the 77W? If freight may had wa...
Jump to postUA's services for December 2023 (The Peak Month for NW/SS in Australia) from reading the Inbound and Outbound stats in the BITRE report, has an inbound load of 57% and an outbound load of 63% averaged across all services.
Jump to postIf the aircraft is spending so much time in CEB couldn’t they apply for NRT-CEB-DPS? Wouldn’t make it a waiste for the aircraft to be parked in CEB overnight. Defintely shows the Philippines is growing for tourism from the U.S as they launched SFO-MNL not so long ago. Don't assume CEB or MNL is tou...
Jump to postAnyone have some info of the timings? Quite excited for the Cebu service and want to see the schedule, but UA website isn't loaded yet. UA032 NRT CEB 1730-2205 UA033 CEB NRT 0930-1515 Connects to and from all of UA transpacific flights at NRT. UA could easily do something similar with DPS (Bali). W...
Jump to postWonder where the UA 737-800 is being rotated from for upcoming NRT-CEB. I'm guessing it's going to operate GUM-NRT-CEB-NRT-GUM?
Jump to postDo the current 789s have the range for IAH-MEL? Can't really think of what more NW24/25 expansion into the South Pacific would look like. Maybe a second daily SFO-MEL?; DEN-SYD? SFO-ADL? LAX-CHC? 4x weekly IAH-BNE to slot in with the 3x LAX-BNE, that would mean two daily flights to Brisbane. HNL-SY...
Jump to postWhat about BNE-IAH? Or MEL-IAH (or too far)If QF can make DFW work, surely UA could expand? Tbf - SFO,LAX IAH from MEL,BNE,SYD is probs all the coverage required. Is SYD back to year round IAH, or seasonal can’t recall? Reports are that yields on trans-Pacific routes are declining with supply now e...
Jump to postCould Australia feature in UA's upcoming route announcements? https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1491855 Remember, Patrick Quayle said only in December that “We’re just getting started (in the region) and there’s a lot more opportunity in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pa...
Jump to postVARA looking at E190s or A220s as eventual F100 replacement on WA operations (Geoff Thomas and GM Nathan Miller). Miller explains that they are looking at (leasing) a initial sub-fleet of 4 units for 2H 2025 (assuming CapEx approval is required at some point in 2024). https://www.airlineratings.com/...
Jump to postPer the AFR paywall article dated Mar 5, 2024 under "Virgin Australia records higher revenues, warns of headwinds ahead". VA has made $236million profit for the 6 months of 2H 2023 period. The outgoing CEO does note of headwinds ahead.
Jump to postRumours I heard across the social media platforms (FB, Forums, etc) suggests MH is looking at the 737-8 MAX to reintroduce KUL-BNE, which is probably the 'right-sized' aircraft (smaller with more frequencies) against struggling x3 weekly with a widebody. Similar to PR's BNE-MNL with the A321neos.
Jump to postBoth Sydney flights for Thai to be operated by their A350's, from April 1st. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi – Sydney * TG471/472 eff 31MAR24 2nd daily service resumes with A350-900XWB * TG475/476 eff 01APR24 A350-900XWB replaces 777-300ER (Overall 2 daily A350) https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240304-tgns24 Wi...
Jump to postThey aren't likely to come back and I'm a bit puzzled why New Zealanders are so keen for them to return. New Zealanders didn't really support them last time so, unless it is just for a planespotting opportunity, I don't get it. Ummm.... more capacity=lower fares? Even if you dont fly them you benef...
Jump to postIIRC at the presser for the TK's service to MEL, I'm assuming it's the Chairman had expressed he wanted to keep the SIN stop when the non-stop starts. A 2nd MEL (or BNE) I would guess are candidates.
Jump to postTheir view is the US carriers have a surplus of equipment which isn't currently being flown into the likes of China so the carriers are flying them into other routes. Yes, Foran continues to suggest that the US3 are essentially dumping capacity here because of the US-China situation. But is that re...
Jump to postI think a bigger priority should be getting SYD/MEL to double daily, allowing connections both ways with more key European ports, such as DUB. If you hear the interviews from their CEO and CCO, they say that connecting Australia to Europe is not a strategic priority for them. Not overly surprising....
Jump to postThere is no indication VA has any intention of ever restarting trans-Tasman trunk routes using its own metal and why would they? They are basically being asked to incur operating losses on trans-Tasman routes in the forlorn hope that it'd force NZ and QF to lower airfares because the respective gov...
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