NZ6 post was number 1 in this thread that he mentioned other places possibly being a surprise, perhaps you are right MNL/BKK. There is some slack in the fleet depending on how many 787s aren’t flying at once. Possibly NS25? Yes, he said " There are other options on the table which might surpri...
Jump to postSometime back Foran mentioned using what they have and building existing routes to 5, 10, 14 weekly. That was specifically in the context of the US only. At the IATA gathering in Istanbul last May, Richard Quest of CNN asked Foran "where to next" after JFK, to which Foran said "we've...
Jump to postThey may find that is more valuable. For example they could increase AKL- NRT to ten pw all year long not just summer or extend the seasonal AKL- DPS to a full year schedule. NZ indicated that they would work with what they had for now, although there were some more recent comments that hinted they...
Jump to postNot sure really unless they can lease in a 4th 77W after OKW arrives in around September. If they could get another one it might be possible to expand a bit or they might just return to the former destinations eg ICN. What would generally be better for an airline - opening up new routes at a lessor...
Jump to postFor the 747-300 QF flew AKL-LAX (5652 nm) for a period towards the end of the 747-300 service life. The only longer listed -300 route in this thread is the potential SEL-YYZ Could it do LAX-AKL non stop with any sort of payload, because if so then I think we have our winner for this variant. Not a ...
Jump to postA359 N511DN positioned SIN-AKL as DL9971 13/04 to operate DL64 AKL-LAX 14/04.
I presume N572DZ which operated DL65 LAX-AKL 12/04 will position AKL-SIN.
ikolkyo wrote:It's being reported QF has cancelled PER-LHR non-stop flights due to airspace closure
Today first day of the school holidays there is a special treat. OYB is booked for operating the 527-538 turnaround the star alliance 321. Also a bonus Delta A350 due in tonight as DL9971 from SIN - looks like it's been there for MX and is getting back into the network via Auckland I guess the inbo...
Jump to postToday first day of the school holidays there is a special treat. OYB is booked for operating the 527-538 turnaround the star alliance 321. Interesting. I see NNE was meant operate NZ563 AKl-CHC on Friday but was cancelled, scheduled AKL-OOL today 0900 but delayed till 1300. NND didn’t return from N...
Jump to postI would think AC have other places to send their limited fleet for now. Where? Asia/India, you face the Russia airspace issue. Europe - NW is low season. As others say MEL, MNL I mean I don’t know but increase YVR-AKL if they have the capacity, YYZ-AKL I am quite sure would need a 77L which there a...
Jump to postI saw a post on Instagram by a plane spotter from Brisbane who mentioned that QF15/16 would be seeing the 787 again in the next few weeks. I hadn't heard anything about this, but thought I'd pop onto the Qantas website to see for myself. So far, the earliest I could find was the 24th of April, and ...
Jump to postI actually wonder if we could see YYZ-AKL. Needs a 77L A 789 can do it, just as it does AKL-ORD/JFK? Maybe with a payload restriction heading to AKL. I’m sure it could, AC seat 298 on their 789 though, YYZ is slightly shorter then JFK and a fair bit longer than ORD. I would think AC have other plac...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:kriskim wrote:Could we see more Asia Pacific expansion by AC for the end of this year? MEL, MNL, TPE?
I actually wonder if we could see YYZ-AKL.
TPE is a bit of a surprise, I thought some YVR flying would get some 77W capacity myself. It was said a while back PER loads weren’t super high, though that doesn’t say how the premium cabins were doing. It seems they want to keep the code 2 789s flying more certainly for now. YVR with the 77E was ...
Jump to postThere is always another city that could be done Daily with a single 773. Has anyone considered AKL-PER with the 2nd leased 773 and then switch it to AKL-DPS during the peak times for DPS. School holidays etc. Just a thought TPE is a bit of a surprise, I thought some YVR flying would get some 77W ca...
Jump to postCI said AKL was difficult from an aircraft utilisation perspective, they park in SYD/MEL for the day to fly overnight both ways don’t they? I think this is one of those situations where we may have over-analysed a comment by an airline. Sure, it isn’t possible to achieve high utilisation and run ov...
Jump to postThere is always another city that could be done Daily with a single 773. Has anyone considered AKL-PER with the 2nd leased 773 and then switch it to AKL-DPS during the peak times for DPS. School holidays etc. Just a thought TPE is a bit of a surprise, I thought some YVR flying would get some 77W ca...
Jump to postHere is the link for the announcement. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240409-nznw24asia Interesting that TPE gets the 77W love and not DPS. The 77W fleet will be very busy with all of the American flights as well. Interesting how it mentions J class increase from 18 to 44 which is the number on NZ ...
Jump to postLatest aeroroutes update confirms this: From late October, AKL-SIN daily 77W AKL-NRT daily 77W (+ 3 weekly 789) AKL-TPE 3 weekly 77W Here is the link for the announcement. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240409-nznw24asia Interesting that TPE gets the 77W love and not DPS. The 77W fleet will be very...
Jump to post... TPE 3x weekly, rotating with Australian services? Latest aeroroutes update confirms this ... AKL-TPE 3 weekly 77W Wow, very interesting, and great to see the airline's confidence to put extra capacity into TPE - particularly all that additional premium capacity (!). A few things about AKL-TPE t...
Jump to postInteresting - DPS perhaps, given how upbeat the airline was about it in the half year results and how it could be done daily with one frame. Otherwise, TPE 3x weekly, rotating with Australian services? Latest aeroroutes update confirms this: From late October, AKL-SIN daily 77W AKL-NRT daily 77W (+...
Jump to postThere's been a bit of chat about OKV and schedules. I can't share too much but it's won't be used on traditional 77W routes. There's a fast growing route which will see it for a period this year. Interesting - DPS perhaps, given how upbeat the airline was about it in the half year results and how i...
Jump to postDoes anyone have any indication on how VJ is going on their SGN-PER-ADL flights? I still can’t believe anyone in their right mind would book the route through to Adelaide… the schedule, notably the redeye on the domestic sector, would be enough to drive me insane. We only have the first month of da...
Jump to postIt might be the next to return but then another one will go for maintenance. They are running with 6 active until late September and then 7 until presumably the Christmas peak. Need two more frames for SYD-JNB given its a 14hr segment. 1 should do given the longer ground times the fleet has in LHR/...
Jump to postThere's been a bit of chat about OKV and schedules. I can't share too much but it's won't be used on traditional 77W routes. There's a fast growing route which will see it for a period this year. There is NRT later in October switch over to 77W it could be the one as it's not a traditional 77W rout...
Jump to postIs there any chance GA may expand AU ops again from DPS or CGK? Or return to AKL? NZ said in its latest earnings call that DPS is going extremely well right now. Yet NZ is severely capacity constrained, and AKL-DPS remains a seasonal route, unserved by NZ for a significant part of the year. Perhaps...
Jump to postThe B743 had a slightly higher MTOW than the B742, but only the final 8-10 B743’s were built with the 747-400 wings, engines, composites, and extra weight. They still had 3 pilots, and were flown by AI, TG, and RG. As far as I know, the 747-300 had the same maximum take-off weight as the 747-200, b...
Jump to postThere's been a bit of chat about OKV and schedules. I can't share too much but it's won't be used on traditional 77W routes. There's a fast growing route which will see it for a period this year. Interesting - DPS perhaps, given how upbeat the airline was about it in the half year results and how i...
Jump to postAAMDanny wrote:So will all the operational A388's be re-configured? I've just booked LHR-SIN-SYD return and I don't want to be in that old Business seat!
mrkerr7474 wrote:Scanorama wrote:VH-OQH A380 is off to AUH for maintenance today (April 6th) as QF6015 SYD-AUH.
Clearly have a bit of slack in the fleet to be able to have 3 A380s in or heading to AUH
ZK-NBT wrote:I see 789 ZK-NZC positioning as NZ6070 NRT-AKL after NZ 90 was cancelled on 03/04.
So by the end of this year we may have around 6-7 parked A321N, that's getting ridiculous. Should PW not be sorting out existing customers before providing new engines to Airbus? This whole "accept the new plane then mothball it for its engines" seems like such a waste. Just shows the sad...
Jump to postSo by the end of this year we may have around 6-7 parked A321N, that's getting ridiculous. Should PW not be sorting out existing customers before providing new engines to Airbus? This whole "accept the new plane then mothball it for its engines" seems like such a waste. I guess airbus are...
Jump to postI thought it was discussed before that the ninth 77W will be here in May. While a tenth will be here at the end of the year. Although these dates can slide as we have noticed in the past. https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/137477-air-new-zealand-eyes-another-leased-b777-amid-b787-delays It’s say June...
Jump to postFor the week beginning 1 July 24. I have checked out the schedule for the 789 & 77W fleets. Excluding the shot haul flying in between. Which can be accommodated within the operation. The ninth 77W is expected soon but it's not in the schedule so it could be kept as a hot spare. 77W Route Freque...
Jump to postSQ286 04/04 STD 1510 delayed overnight departed 1300 05/04. A359 9V-SMN.
Jump to postFor the week beginning 1 July 24. I have checked out the schedule for the 789 & 77W fleets. Excluding the shot haul flying in between. Which can be accommodated within the operation. The ninth 77W is expected soon but it's not in the schedule so it could be kept as a hot spare. 77W Route Freque...
Jump to postNZ has again reiterated its intention to resume flights to HBA from October. However, it seems the resumption will only be for a seasonal service through March 2025 - the route will no longer operate year-round again. Air New Zealand’s Short Haul General Manager Jeremy O’Brien said the carrier had ...
Jump to postBack to the possibility of connections from Australia to secondary NZ ports: I know that there has been speculation that this would be JQ, but I wouldn't rule out QF at all. My reasoning: * QF (Cam Wallace) recently went on record saying that they were exploring the possibility of services to secon...
Jump to postGood to see. So it continues operating on NZ284 except for one hour later departure from AKL. Yea that’s the usual NW schedule. One hour later due to NZ DST. I presume that the arrival time (landing slot) in SIN stays the same all of the year. Yep NS is AKL 1005 SIN 1640 SIN 1825 AKL 0815 I don’t t...
Jump to postNZ516 wrote:ZK-NBT wrote:NZ have now loaded 77W on the daily AKL-SIN effective 27/10 for the NW schedule.
AKL 1105
SIN 1650
SIN 1840
AKL 0935
Good to see. So it continues operating on NZ284 except for one hour later departure from AKL.
KE reducing BNE services from JUL through to OCT: Will see x3 weekly services instead of x5 weekly, operated with A330-200. Overcapacity with JQ in the market during that period? https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240404-kejul24bne Interesting as from the same date OZ, reintroduces seasonal ICN-MEL ser...
Jump to postNZ have now loaded 77W on the daily AKL-SIN effective 27/10 for the NW schedule.
AKL 1105
SIN 1650
SIN 1840
AKL 0935
I see 789 ZK-NZC positioning as NZ6070 NRT-AKL after NZ 90 was cancelled on 03/04.
Jump to postI see QF now have for the NS schedule a 1925 arrival into ZQN 2020 departure back to SYD. I recall some time back they ran some trial or test flights at night so not a surprise to see them running night services. It might increase 737 utilization as well. Is QF still twice daily on SYD- ZQN? Possib...
Jump to postAir NZ 789 ZK-NZG has been out of service for nearly two months last flight was 9 Feb. It's a pity that they didn't know in advance this would happen and then they could have done the cabin refit on it over this time. It would have saved having to do it later and taking it out of service again. The...
Jump to postAir NZ 789 ZK-NZG has been out of service for nearly two months last flight was 9 Feb. It's a pity that they didn't know in advance this would happen and then they could have done the cabin refit on it over this time. It would have saved having to do it later and taking it out of service again. The...
Jump to postI believe tonight 02/04 is the final HA service for the season operated by A332 N383HA.
Jump to postI see QF now have for the NS schedule a 1925 arrival into ZQN 2020 departure back to SYD. I recall some time back they ran some trial or test flights at night so not a surprise to see them running night services.
Jump to postQF expanding WLG/CHC has more to do with NZ being behind and demand being good than anything to do with AIAL. I think the AIAL factor has played a part. They could have put these planes that will go to WLG and CHC onto AKL routes instead. Remember - NZ is not just facing capacity challenges at WLG ...
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