crazyplane1234 wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

My question is how many of these changes will remain permanently? Like SYD-PER-LHR and 787 on SYD-DFW

SYD-HND is likely to remain an A330 in the long term.

crazyplane1234 wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

My question is how many of these changes will remain permanently? Like SYD-PER-LHR and 787 on SYD-DFW

SYD-HND is likely to remain an A330 in the long term.

ZK-NBT wrote:

crazyplane1234 wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

My question is how many of these changes will remain permanently? Like SYD-PER-LHR and 787 on SYD-DFW

SYD-HND is likely to remain an A330 in the long term.

Depends on premium loads once things start to recover, 789 would still be likely given the J, W, Y cabin like the 744 that has always flown there.

crazyplane1234 wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

crazyplane1234 wrote:

SYD-HND is likely to remain an A330 in the long term.

Depends on premium loads once things start to recover, 789 would still be likely given the J, W, Y cabin like the 744 that has always flown there.

I feel like the 789 would only really make sense if they also used it on MEL-HND, it helps with consistency, and adds another option for rotating aircraft between the two bases.

But we'll just have to wait and see.

EK413 wrote:

crazyplane1234 wrote:

ZK-NBT wrote:

Depends on premium loads once things start to recover, 789 would still be likely given the J, W, Y cabin like the 744 that has always flown there.

I feel like the 789 would only really make sense if they also used it on MEL-HND, it helps with consistency, and adds another option for rotating aircraft between the two bases.

But we'll just have to wait and see.

My thoughts exactly. Makes up for the capacity drop, provides a consistent product offering on SYD/MEL & QF will need to reintroduce W/C once the market recovers...
Question is how long until the market recovers... How long is a piece of string...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

mrkerr7474 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

Well fingers crossed that nothing should change to QF2 this coming Sat. Never flown a QF A380 and hoping that this should still be the case.

My slight concern is flights to SIN in end of May. Currently booked on QF to SIN with EK taking me to DXB/DUS. Haven’t seen any news about massive reductions to SIN yet unless I’ve missed it.

Cheers,
C1973

QF2 changes are only effective 20 April I believe so you will still get the chance to fly QF A380

As for SIN at the end of May, I would envisage QF contacting you to discuss options if you were on QF1 SYD-SIN, otherwise they would look to move you to the other option SYD-SIN if that flight has been postponed until mid September with all the changes.

Happy for anyone to correct me

Captdasbomb wrote:

I would be inclined to pull the trigger & ground all flights to Hong kong & China

Captdasbomb wrote:

I would be inclined to pull the trigger & ground all flights to Hong kong & China

tullamarine wrote:

Captdasbomb wrote:

I would be inclined to pull the trigger & ground all flights to Hong kong & China

Too late now. In hindsight, you may have done that a month ago but, now the virus is in the local community, it won't significantly slow the virus' spread

AVB wrote:

Captdasbomb wrote:

I would be inclined to pull the trigger & ground all flights to Hong kong & China

Freight is still being loaded so that’s why it’s viable for QF. Cathay is flying passenger aircraft full of freight without passengers.

SCFlyer wrote:

Being reported through the ASX that VA will be axing their remaining 5th freedom routes out of AKL (AKL-TBU & AKL-RAR) from the start of May and 21 July respectively. This is unrelated to COVID-19.

Also reported that VA will bring forward their mandatory 77W check maintenance, by reducing SYD-LAX flights to x5 weekly from May (the cutback was originally planned in July). I assume MEL and BNE will have their frequencies to LAX reduced as well.

Deepinsider wrote:

tullamarine wrote:

Captdasbomb wrote:

I would be inclined to pull the trigger & ground all flights to Hong kong & China

Too late now. In hindsight, you may have done that a month ago but, now the virus is in the local community, it won't significantly slow the virus' spread

I think Captdasbomb context is economic reality, not virus avoidance.
refer post #209 before.

Captdasbomb wrote:

Deepinsider wrote:

tullamarine wrote:

Too late now. In hindsight, you may have done that a month ago but, now the virus is in the local community, it won't significantly slow the virus' spread

I think Captdasbomb context is economic reality, not virus avoidance.
refer post #209 before.

Sucks that airlines are forced to fly empty to meet the 80% threshold to maintain a slot

Qantas16 wrote:

Thai Air Asia X has quietly pulled the pin on BNE-DMK. Services withdrawn (or suspended, not sure) from the 5th of April.

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

ben175 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

Do you have status? Those seats may have just been blocked for gold & platinums if you don’t and have opened up at check in.

ben175 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

Do you have status? Those seats may have just been blocked for gold & platinums if you don’t and have opened up at check in.

EK413 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

Hope you’ve enjoyed Phuket, quick word of advise I wouldn’t advertise the stomach bug issue whilst abroad otherwise you’ll find yourself quarantined for 14 days... at your own expense...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

EK413 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

Hope you’ve enjoyed Phuket, quick word of advise I wouldn’t advertise the stomach bug issue whilst abroad otherwise you’ll find yourself quarantined for 14 days... at your own expense...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Loved Phuket. Never went to the bogan zone of Pathong, but further south to Kata Noi. Which is maybe why I loved it.
Stomach was all cleared up when we left Phi Phi, thankfully. Just annoyed that I lost a good night to sleep when I could have been at a good Mediterranean restaurant. Maybe next year.

And thanks for the heads up.

Cheers,
C1973

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

ben175 wrote:

Chipmunk1973 wrote:

I was just checking in for my QF2 SIN-SYD for tomorrow (Sat 14/03) and decided to do a seat change.
Last week when on Phi Phi Island in Phuket, I encountered a less than appreciated 24 hour stomach bug. I was a bit concerned at the time and thought I’d change my seat to be closest as possible to the facilities if required. At that stage, there were just 5 seats left in business.
When checking in tonight I found there were 18 or 19 free seats now.

Cheers,
C1973

Do you have status? Those seats may have just been blocked for gold & platinums if you don’t and have opened up at check in.

Those seats are actually towards the back of the J cabin. I’d think that Gold+ would be getting the ones towards the front end.

Just as an example though, when booking an international flight recently that went via SYD, the domestic business sector only ever showed row 3 as an option on a 738. After payment, if you tried a seat change, you’d find usually an empty row 2 or maybe one seat taken.

I’d surmise that QF block off the first 8 J seats by default till they have a paid passenger for them. Probably based on expectation, upgrades for Gold +, etc.

Cheers,
C1973.

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

Currently, we plan to operate all Virgin Australia flights to and from New Zealand until 22 March 2020 and expect to then reduce services.
https://www.virginaustralia.com/nz/en/b ... el-alerts/

redroo wrote:

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

Why not midnight tonight? Why wait a day?

And it’s easy to declare “self isolate”. It’s another thing to enforce.

redroo wrote:

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

Why not midnight tonight? Why wait a day?

And it’s easy to declare “self isolate”. It’s another thing to enforce.

SYDSpotter wrote:

redroo wrote:

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

Why not midnight tonight? Why wait a day?

And it’s easy to declare “self isolate”. It’s another thing to enforce.

Well this is where travel insurance comes in though. You decide to ignore the self-isolation, drive around NZ and get involved in a car accident. Your travel insurance is voided because you broke the law by not self-isolating. Most "sensible" people will heed the directive and not travel at all.

What does self-isolation mean?
Self-isolation means staying away from situations where you could infect other people. This means any situation where you may come in close contact with others (face to face contact closer than 1 metre for more than 15 minutes), such as social gatherings, work, school, child care/pre-school centres, university, polytechnic and other education providers, faith-based gatherings, aged care and health care facilities, prisons, sports gatherings, restaurants and all public gatherings.

If you are a visitor to New Zealand, this means you should avoid sitting in a restaurant, or participating in any type of tour group.

zkncj wrote:

Seems to be an differnece between New Zealand and Aussie take on self isolation, seems to be New Zealand is just avoid other people but you dont have to stay at home.

SYDSpotter wrote:

zkncj wrote:

Seems to be an differnece between New Zealand and Aussie take on self isolation, seems to be New Zealand is just avoid other people but you dont have to stay at home.

On face value, I can't see how the NZ definition of "self-isolation" is going to be effective. Yes you are avoiding groups but if you are a carrier, you are bound to be come into contact with someone and spread the virus. I guess the announcement will have the impact of discouraging the majority of potential travellers so it will at least prevent the mass arrivals and hence limit the number of potential carriers.

NTLDaz wrote:

NZ making every entrant self isolate from midnight Sunday for 14 days . Essentially banning tourists or business travellers. Will need to be more reduction of Tasman flights

zkncj wrote:

SYDSpotter wrote:

redroo wrote:

Why not midnight tonight? Why wait a day?

And it’s easy to declare “self isolate”. It’s another thing to enforce.

Well this is where travel insurance comes in though. You decide to ignore the self-isolation, drive around NZ and get involved in a car accident. Your travel insurance is voided because you broke the law by not self-isolating. Most "sensible" people will heed the directive and not travel at all.

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-novel-coronavirus-health-advice-general-public/covid-19-novel-coronavirus-self-isolation

What does self-isolation mean?
Self-isolation means staying away from situations where you could infect other people. This means any situation where you may come in close contact with others (face to face contact closer than 1 metre for more than 15 minutes), such as social gatherings, work, school, child care/pre-school centres, university, polytechnic and other education providers, faith-based gatherings, aged care and health care facilities, prisons, sports gatherings, restaurants and all public gatherings.

If you are a visitor to New Zealand, this means you should avoid sitting in a restaurant, or participating in any type of tour group.

Seems to be an differnece between New Zealand and Aussie take on self isolation, seems to be New Zealand is just avoid other people but you dont have to stay at home.

Qantas16 wrote:

Thai Air Asia X has quietly pulled the pin on BNE-DMK. Services withdrawn (or suspended, not sure) from the 5th of April.