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Ishrion wrote:It seems like AA isn't done with Oceania announcements. I assume we'll see potential LAX-MEL in the near future.
lessredtape wrote:Seems to be a lot of public servants in Albury these days, ATO etc.
x1234 wrote:LATAM switching their alliance to SkyTeam/Delta will result in interesting on-ward connections to Asia from SYD.
zkncj wrote:Is it normal for VA to change connecting flights without warning or asking?
I just noticed when opening the VA app my December AKL-SYD-BNE flight which had an 9hour transit in SYD has just been changed to an 2hr transit. Without any contact from VA they just simply changed my flight from VA977 to VA935 not even an email explaining seems pretty bad service for an Business Class ticket.
I had planned to head into the city to do some Christmas Shopping and meet up for Lunch, I guess now I'll have to waste time on the phone to VA.
a19901213 wrote:zkncj wrote:Is it normal for VA to change connecting flights without warning or asking?
I just noticed when opening the VA app my December AKL-SYD-BNE flight which had an 9hour transit in SYD has just been changed to an 2hr transit. Without any contact from VA they just simply changed my flight from VA977 to VA935 not even an email explaining seems pretty bad service for an Business Class ticket.
I had planned to head into the city to do some Christmas Shopping and meet up for Lunch, I guess now I'll have to waste time on the phone to VA.
I had a similar situation even though it’s not VA.
I flew to LA from SYD via AKL on NZ last year and 2 days before departure I received a email saying my flight to LAX from AKL has been rescheduled due to 787 engine issue.
Funny thing is they didn’t do anything with my connecting flight from SYD and I wouldn’t be able to connect. I had no choice but to call them up asking them to reschedule my SYD flight as well but then they told me the only earlier flight that day that can connect my onward flight is full in Biz class. ( My entire trip is booked in Biz class)
And speechlessly they couldn’t come up with any solution but to move me to a flight day before or alternatively if I’m willing to downgrade myself to economy class.
On the day flying I got push back to Biz class again because there’s a empty seat but surely it’s not a pleasing experience.
zkncj wrote:Is it normal for VA to change connecting flights without warning or asking?
I just noticed when opening the VA app my December AKL-SYD-BNE flight which had an 9hour transit in SYD has just been changed to an 2hr transit. Without any contact from VA they just simply changed my flight from VA977 to VA935 not even an email explaining seems pretty bad service for an Business Class ticket.
I had planned to head into the city to do some Christmas Shopping and meet up for Lunch, I guess now I'll have to waste time on the phone to VA.
qf789 wrote:BITRE for August out
Thai AirAsia X averaging around 50% on BNE-DMK
Virgin NZ loads improving, HKG is another story
EK NZ loads just scrapping in around 40%
Batik PER-DPS now averaging around 80%
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/o ... y_1908.pdf
for the 12 months ended 30-Jun-2019:
Passengers: 42.1 million, +3.7% year-on-year;
Top 10 countries:
New Zealand: 7.2 million, +1.5%;
Singapore: 5.7 million, +4.4%;
United Arab Emirates: 3.7 million, -3.1%;
China: 3.6 million, +6.0%;
US: 3.3 million, +3.5%;
Indonesia: 3.2 million, +10.7%;
Hong Kong: 2.9 million, +4.5%;
Malaysia: 2.3 million, -1.2%;
Japan: 1.5 million, +2.9%;
Thailand: 1.5 million,-10.6%;
Top 10 city pairs:
Singapore-Sydney: 72,405, +7.9%;
Singapore-Melbourne: 71,635, -1.0%;
Hong Kong-Sydney: 52,898, +6.7%;
Auckland-Sydney: 52,798, -3.6%;
Singapore-Brisbane: 38,811, -3.6%;
Los Angeles-Sydney: 36,189, -7.3%;
Singapore-Perth: 35,453, -2.1%;
Dubai-Sydney: 29,022, +10.2%;
Guangzhou-Sydney: 26,913, -5.7%;
Hong Kong-Melbourne: 26,443, -2.6%.
zkncj wrote:
Not ideal! With my one there seems to apparent reason why they would need to change it! The flight is two months out, the only reason I can see they would have moved me is because they don’t want an cheap transit passenger on an peak hour SYD-BNE flight. AKL-SYD-BNE in Business is $512NZD or SYD-BNE is $450AUD seems very revenue control related to me!
The flight combination is still bootable via there website too, I tired reaching out via Twitter and there online team couldn’t help at all.
downdata wrote:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/qantas-says-three-boeing-737-found-with-cracks/11661320
3 grounded out of 33 inspected. I recall QF not having much spare capacity in their NG fleet. Will we see more domestic 747 flying in the near term?
melpax wrote:lessredtape wrote:Seems to be a lot of public servants in Albury these days, ATO etc.
Most people would be suprised at how big the Albury office is, quite a lot is actually done there. Not to mention some of the Exec is based there which drives travel demand.
There is the Army base at Wodonga also.
qf789 wrote:BITRE for August out
Thai AirAsia X averaging around 50% on BNE-DMK
Virgin NZ loads improving, HKG is another story
EK NZ loads just scrapping in around 40%
Batik PER-DPS now averaging around 80%
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/o ... y_1908.pdf
VHZNE wrote:Jetstar have unveiled their interior of their A321neo LR, that will arrive from August 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCHQ10fjMw
lessredtape wrote:qf789 wrote:BITRE for August out
Thai AirAsia X averaging around 50% on BNE-DMK
Virgin NZ loads improving, HKG is another story
EK NZ loads just scrapping in around 40%
Batik PER-DPS now averaging around 80%
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/o ... y_1908.pdf
looking at these numbers .......
what's the story with Nauru airlines ? 33% load factor
& VA to HIR 32%/36% while IE has 61%/51%
Surely VA would be better off talking to IE about some sort of codeshare, if that's permitted ?
Thatcher wrote:qf789 wrote:BITRE for August out
Thai AirAsia X averaging around 50% on BNE-DMK
Virgin NZ loads improving, HKG is another story
EK NZ loads just scrapping in around 40%
Batik PER-DPS now averaging around 80%
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/o ... y_1908.pdf
Those BNE-DMK numbers don't look promising - I wonder when the (presumed) QLD govt subsidies end?
lessredtape wrote:Surely VA would be better off talking to IE about some sort of codeshare, if that's permitted ?
lessredtape wrote:VHZNE wrote:Jetstar have unveiled their interior of their A321neo LR, that will arrive from August 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCHQ10fjMw
those recaro seats look like they have an ultra slim back, but guess that improves legroom without changing the seat pitch
qf789 wrote:BITRE for August out
Thai AirAsia X averaging around 50% on BNE-DMK
Virgin NZ loads improving, HKG is another story
EK NZ loads just scrapping in around 40%
Batik PER-DPS now averaging around 80%
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/o ... y_1908.pdf
smi0006 wrote:lessredtape wrote:VHZNE wrote:Jetstar have unveiled their interior of their A321neo LR, that will arrive from August 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCHQ10fjMw
those recaro seats look like they have an ultra slim back, but guess that improves legroom without changing the seat pitch
Functional and simple - but hey for an LCC can’t asK for too much more. Always curious why NEOs are delivered with the older style lockers. Not the new 350 style.
zkncj wrote:smi0006 wrote:lessredtape wrote:those recaro seats look like they have an ultra slim back, but guess that improves legroom without changing the seat pitch
Functional and simple - but hey for an LCC can’t asK for too much more. Always curious why NEOs are delivered with the older style lockers. Not the new 350 style.
NZ has the new style ones on the 320/321NEO they infact slow down boarding. They have to remain closed during boarding, as they hang down to low making it hard to get into the seats.
Morrofinch wrote:And Donghai Airlines has been a disaster in Australia. Close to one year being here and the load factors indicate massive losses. How long till they pull out?
moa999 wrote:Morrofinch wrote:And Donghai Airlines has been a disaster in Australia. Close to one year being here and the load factors indicate massive losses. How long till they pull out?
So it hasn't improved from this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/ ... y/10587454
Was a strange route to begin with and a long flight in a 737.
Morrofinch wrote:moa999 wrote:Morrofinch wrote:And Donghai Airlines has been a disaster in Australia. Close to one year being here and the load factors indicate massive losses. How long till they pull out?
So it hasn't improved from this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/ ... y/10587454
Was a strange route to begin with and a long flight in a 737.
I would wonder if they could make it a SYD-DRW-SZX and MEL-DRW-SZX on rotating turns. I reckon they would boost a few seats there.
Morrofinch wrote:And Donghai Airlines has been a disaster in Australia. Close to one year being here and the load factors indicate massive losses. How long till they pull out?
kriskim wrote:Morrofinch wrote:moa999 wrote:
So it hasn't improved from this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/ ... y/10587454
Was a strange route to begin with and a long flight in a 737.
I would wonder if they could make it a SYD-DRW-SZX and MEL-DRW-SZX on rotating turns. I reckon they would boost a few seats there.
Considering that both MEL and SYD already have their own dedicated SZX services, I don't think it will help that much.
I'm assuming that this route is more cargo driven?
xiaotung wrote:Morrofinch wrote:And Donghai Airlines has been a disaster in Australia. Close to one year being here and the load factors indicate massive losses. How long till they pull out?
Most Chinese haven't even heard of the airline. I don't now what they were thinking.
lessredtape wrote:melpax wrote:wonder what the biggest aircraft that could get in & out of ABX is ? A 737-700 maybe ?
TN486T wrote:Good evening all. My son and I travelled to Tassie (read Hobart and Cradle Mountain ) 22 thu 31 Oct. We travelled on the JQ starter plus (i think thats what it is called) fare. The basic fare was something like $42 each way for each of us, plus an extra $40 each way which gave us 20kg luggage each, a $10 Buy On Board voucher, and preferred seat allocation. We could have travelled Virgin as I have enough points to cover air fares for both of us, however I wanted to try JQ. Our total checked baggage out of Melbourne was 32kg and carry on was 4kg for me and 15 kg for my son ($10,000 worth of camera eqpt he was not going to put into the ac hold) which meant that we were in total 5 kg over the carry on limit but overall 3kg under the total limit. No problems out of Melbourne, all accepted. Different story on the return flight. No Way. 15kg is way too heavy (who cares I have 3 kg "credit" for carry on and checked baggage has a "credit" of 8 kg. Nope, $60 this is going to cost you Sirs and the Camera Eqpt must go into the hold. Following an interesting discussion we had with JQ staff at the boarding point, they agreed we could take the camera eqpt on board however it would still cost $60.Forget OHS reasons for the 7KG on board limit, it is just a terrible revenue raiser by the airline. Even women were told the weight of handbags etc counted towards the on board allowance. Apart from all of this, where is the consistency, outbound ok, inbound, No Way. We
were always within our total KG limit. My son and I will be having a "time-out" now every year, and if we travel by air, it won't be with JQ. No, this is not a rant, just a little dissappointing to say the least.
TN486T wrote:which meant that we were in total 5 kg over the carry on limit but overall 3kg under the total limitt.
EK413 wrote:According to another discussion thread NH will go double daily HND-SYD.
The 2nd flight will be an evening arrival and overnight with a midday departure which is subject to change.
If this has already been discussed please delete
Cheers
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EK413 wrote:According to another discussion thread NH will go double daily HND-SYD.
The 2nd flight will be an evening arrival and overnight with a midday departure which is subject to change.
If this has already been discussed please delete
Cheers
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
TN486T wrote:We could have travelled Virgin as I have enough points to cover air fares for both of us, however I wanted to try JQ. Our total checked baggage out of Melbourne was 32kg and carry on was 4kg for me and 15 kg for my son ($10,000 worth of camera eqpt he was not going to put into the ac hold)
were always within our total KG limit. My son and I will be having a "time-out" now every year, and if we travel by air, it won't be with JQ. No, this is not a rant, just a little dissappointing to say the least.
Morrofinch wrote:I suspect there is a factor which we dont know about at play here. Otherwise they would have dropped the route a while a go.
TN486T wrote:Good evening all. My son and I travelled to Tassie (read Hobart and Cradle Mountain ) 22 thu 31 Oct. We travelled on the JQ starter plus (i think thats what it is called) fare. The basic fare was something like $42 each way for each of us, plus an extra $40 each way which gave us 20kg luggage each, a $10 Buy On Board voucher, and preferred seat allocation. We could have travelled Virgin as I have enough points to cover air fares for both of us, however I wanted to try JQ. Our total checked baggage out of Melbourne was 32kg and carry on was 4kg for me and 15 kg for my son ($10,000 worth of camera eqpt he was not going to put into the ac hold) which meant that we were in total 5 kg over the carry on limit but overall 3kg under the total limit. No problems out of Melbourne, all accepted. Different story on the return flight. No Way. 15kg is way too heavy (who cares I have 3 kg "credit" for carry on and checked baggage has a "credit" of 8 kg. Nope, $60 this is going to cost you Sirs and the Camera Eqpt must go into the hold. Following an interesting discussion we had with JQ staff at the boarding point, they agreed we could take the camera eqpt on board however it would still cost $60.Forget OHS reasons for the 7KG on board limit, it is just a terrible revenue raiser by the airline. Even women were told the weight of handbags etc counted towards the on board allowance. Apart from all of this, where is the consistency, outbound ok, inbound, No Way. We
were always within our total KG limit. My son and I will be having a "time-out" now every year, and if we travel by air, it won't be with JQ. No, this is not a rant, just a little dissappointing to say the least.
chewybacca wrote:EK413 wrote:According to another discussion thread NH will go double daily HND-SYD.
The 2nd flight will be an evening arrival and overnight with a midday departure which is subject to change.
If this has already been discussed please delete
Cheers
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Disappointing if true. There goes a VA/NH option direct from Melbourne then... which I thought would’ve made more sense for VA/NH to serve all three major east coast capitals to HND.
I get that NH probably don’t want to have a 787 sitting in SYD for a whole day, but is there really that much demand from SYD to justify a double daily service??
Knowing QF they’ll probably go double daily too from SYD as well in order to accelerate their 747 retirement, but we’ll see. If that also ends up being true, Melbourne really doesn’t get much HND love despite its rapidly growing business links with Japan. Sigh
chewybacca wrote:EK413 wrote:According to another discussion thread NH will go double daily HND-SYD.