Will this also affect CDG and FCO if alternative routes are still necessary when they start up? Being slightly shorter maybe they can get away with it? Big blow to the competitiveness of QF to these destinations, especially from the east coast. LHR I understand caters more to the PER local market t...
Jump to postI wonder which airport will be the next one to get a DPS or SIN service - NTL, BQB or MCY. There are some rapidly growing populations in all locations. My money's on BQB, I am biased as a Western Australia but the reduced distance factor is significant. VA used to manage a weekly PHE-DPS, I wonder ...
Jump to postI wonder which airport will be the next one to get a DPS or SIN service - NTL, BQB or MCY. There are some rapidly growing populations in all locations. My money's on BQB, I am biased as a Western Australia but the reduced distance factor is significant. VA used to manage a weekly PHE-DPS, I wonder ...
Jump to postInteresting trip report on Youtube of 3C's NLK-AKL ATR-72 500 service - supposedly Australia's only prop international service? The flight wasn't even half full. No wonder they decided to make the service seasonal last year, and cut it over the winter months. According to December's BITRE data, 3C'...
Jump to postI flew from BOM-SGN on Vietjet, which sounds like an unusual choice (the flight is only five hours and it's a budget airline). The plane was scheduled to be an A321N, but an A330-300 must have been substituted last minute and it was evident only an A321N load was booked so there were many spare seat...
Jump to posthttps://www.nationaltribune.com.au/qantas-to-take-off-from-top-end-to-singapore/ QF starting DRW-SIN in Dec 2024 They announced and then revoked this 2(?) years ago, I'm not sure why, intuitively it should be successful. The most bizarre thing I see is the massive time gap between announcement &...
Jump to post0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3K (Jetstar Asia), 3C (Air Chathams) 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - A - AK (Air Asia), AB (Bonza), AC (Air Canada) B - C - CX (Cathay Pacific) D - E - EI (Aer Lingus F - FJ (Fiji Airways) G - H - I - J - JL (Japan Airlines), JQ (Jetstar Australia) K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - QF (Qantas), QZ...
Jump to postHow much would the Busselton/Margaret River airport draw pax from Perth? Or is it too far south? Nil, demand will be from within. It's a very fast growing catchment area, Bunbury is the second biggest city in the state (by a massive gap albeit) and is closer to BQB than PER, when/if the state gover...
Jump to postThere's a thread talking about so-called strange routes which I've found interesting to follow, this leads me to ask what the most unusual routes you have flown have been? "Unusual" is obviously quite vague, it could be a route that is strange relative to other flights you generally take, ...
Jump to postI was curious as to why QF never donated a B767 to the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach? As a plane, I don't necessarily think there was anything absolutely special about the 767. But it certainly was a workhorse for QF for many, many years both domestically and internationally. So I think it sh...
Jump to postBit of an odd one here and only came it across after looking at reviews for Batik https://thebalisun.com/4-major-airlines-announce-additional-flights-to-bali/ The service from Adelaide means that tourists from eight Australian cities can now fly directly to Bali; Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Gold Coas...
Jump to postI'm due to visit Uzbekistan in February, there's up to three flights from Seoul on a given day, and it's the cheapest exchange rate by some metrics in the world, when looking for an "out there" place to visit it actually appealed strongly to me. There's a lot to do there, such as the ancie...
Jump to postInteresting that their return routing to Sydney overflew BNE rather than a more direct slightly westerly route as per most CNS-SYD flights. Looking at FR24 data, QF59 has had terrible OTP the past few weeks! I just flew on QF59 not long ago and it was quite chaotic because it was assigned a remote ...
Jump to postInteresting to see China Eastern has so many aircraft available for extra services, unless its the same aircraft doing both PER and CNS. Out of interest - does Cairns airport have 6 international aerobridges? For 7 or 8 international flights a day? I read the international terminal is getting a rev...
Jump to postThere's a clip of a song that was uploaded to this site called wutzatsong.com by an elusive poster named "Carl92" in 2021,. He claims to have recorded this little slice of a song while testing out audio recording equipment in the late 1990s while living in Spain, but without any answers he...
Jump to postI recently scoured my old flight record (one I keep on Excel) and linked next to a flight I took in 2015 is a thread on Australian Frequent Flyer referring to the flight I was on (QF582 PER-SYD) breaking the Sydney Airport curfew https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/threads/is-qf582-...
Jump to postPlanning a trip to Papua New Guinea at the moment, seems like there used to be flights between Buka (BUA) & Arawa (KIE) to Cairns back in the 1970s which would make life so much easier for me now.
Jump to postShortest International: YUL-LGA on an Air Canada ERJ-175
Longest Domestic: SYD-PER, countless times, QF A330-200, QF A330-300, QF 737-800, QF 747-400ER, VA A330-200, VA 737-800
Jetstar to begin flights between Busselton & Sydney, year round three times a week from next March. Good to see MEL-BQB experiment has paid off, perhaps a weekly DPS or QF metal itself will be the next step? I feel DPS is quite a stretch for a destination currently only support 3x weekly domest...
Jump to postJetstar to begin flights between Busselton & Sydney, year round three times a week from next March.
Good to see MEL-BQB experiment has paid off, perhaps a weekly DPS or QF metal itself will be the next step?
That's a cool livery, experimenting with changing the tail colour (something they've been yet to do) has paid off, also nice to see a Qantaslink branded plane wear this livery
Jump to postD7 dropping SYD-AKL is a shame, I flew it in January and it beat the next cheapest option by around $200.
I hope it can work for them regardless.
I was just having a think earlier about Wide Body (WB) planes entering into service into the future with Australian airlines. QF have finally ordered the B781, six so far if memory serves. Looking at brochure specs, it falls just short of being able to do SYD-LAX at a full configuration such as 300...
Jump to postSo if QF have 12 original sunrise configuration A350s on order, when do we realistically think SYD-CDG is likely to happen? Just wondering how long PER-LHR could last (who knows, maybe we'll be surprised re outbound demand ex PER like for PER-LHR).... Delivery in late 2025 - I presume the first fou...
Jump to postSo if QF have 12 original sunrise configuration A350s on order, when do we realistically think SYD-CDG is likely to happen? Just wondering how long PER-LHR could last (who knows, maybe we'll be surprised re outbound demand ex PER like for PER-LHR).... Delivery in late 2025 - I presume the first fou...
Jump to postYes I think it will be interesting to see the data on per - cgk when it comes out. Could qf free up an a330 to per-jnb this summer? Guessing unlikely but would be a huge bonus. I imagine they will just take it out of domestic PER-SYD/MEL rotations, I recall them using primarily domestic configured ...
Jump to postFour airlines flying PER-CGK is surely overkill, perhaps it would be wise for the state government will try and nudge Qantas to use that 737 for SUB instead. I was supposed to fly CGK-PER on QZ a few months ago, it was cancelled and I was routed through DPS, whilst I had the option to fly via KUL I ...
Jump to postVietjet to fly to ADL, not non-stop from SGN, but instead onwards from PER, making for a 5x weekly service from SGN-PER-ADL https://simpleflying.com/vietjet-airbus-a330-tickets-australian-routes/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox-SF&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Facebook...
Jump to postD7 may add MEL-AKL and OOL-AKL - would be great if it happens. Due to the success of the Sydney – Auckland route, AirAsia is also planning to connect the Gold Coast and Melbourne to Auckland. It follows D7's CEO saying there was "strong demand" on SYD-AKL. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/lif...
Jump to postAlice Springs, Uluru and Darwin are, just intuitively, places every Australian seems keen to visit yet places they opt out of going when the airfares are compared to say Bali, Tasmania or any other capital
I suspect Bonza will do quite well out of the NT and I hope they're keen to expand
Bonza adding more routes Darwin to Sunshine Coast Darwin to Gold Coast Melbourne to Alice Springs Incredibly welcome news, I'm in Darwin at the moment, cost me around $600 return from Sydney (up with VA via Brisbane, who don't fly SYD-DRW (why is that?) And back with Jetstar) ASP is often worse Lau...
Jump to postJanuary 2019, twice on the same flight, or another way to put it, I've had a single experience and it was a double diversion. Was flying from Christchurch to Perth with Virgin Australia, layover in Melbourne to change flights. There was such bad weather in Melbourne we had to divert to Launceston to...
Jump to postLargest: JFK, LHR, HKG
Smallest: JAD, CES, MTL
Smallest commercial: LBS, NLK, FUN
Lived across the country, depends on what you're into really. Nature wise make your way up to Darwin, Cairns, Broome or Kununurra and hire a car (if you have time & money even go between them) and you'll have a blast, the interior of this country is incredible, Kakadu, Lake Argyle, Daintree Rain...
Jump to posthttps://www.executivetraveller.com/news ... sburg-a380
Qantas to send A380 to JNB from July 2024 onwards
Fiji airways ai looking at serving more cities in Australia. Perhaps they can go back to OOL again or start PER. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/132751134/the-airline-named-the-best-in-the-region-has-a-new-plane-flying-to-nz PER could work, Air Mauritius make it work and whilst MRU has definite...
Jump to postBatik entering CGK-PER would make it the third airline to enter the route this year after (during COVID) not being a route served by anybody. Demand seems to sustain a daily service (Indonesia Airasia and Citlink operate on eachothers off days) but I really don't see how it's exceeds anything more, ...
Jump to postVietjet don't seem to have much of a connecting network that's not already served by say TR, which is a shame, but the demand for Vietnam will sustain the service in of itself, I recently booked a trip from Mumbai to Sydney via SGN with them, very cheap even with the bags included, they'll absolutel...
Jump to postRecently went on a massive booking spree, taking advantage of a few sales, this looks set to be a personal record Flown January 9 / PER-ADL / VA712 / Virgin Australia Regional / A320-200 / VH-VNF 9 / ADL-SYD / VA425 / Virgin Australia / B737-800 / VH-YIH 22 / SYD-AKL / D7288 / Air Asia X / A330-300 ...
Jump to postTuvalu is set to get its own airline by the end of this year with once military landing strips being repurposed for commercial flights on the outer islands, I'm keen to see what becomes of this. Fiji Airways are a little more conventional but I find them interesting, it's cool that they're able to ...
Jump to postHow feasible is a TK route through India or even Pakistan? Lahore, New Delhi or Mumbai could all work from Sydney or Melbourne is my thinking.
Jump to postTuvalu is set to get its own airline by the end of this year with once military landing strips being repurposed for commercial flights on the outer islands, I'm keen to see what becomes of this. Fiji Airways are a little more conventional but I find them interesting, it's cool that they're able to m...
Jump to postMelbourne is a process, the public transport busses are in an obscure end of the airport and generally won't take you to where you need to go, the Skybus is $15 (cheaper than the train in Sydney funnily enough) and will get you to the CBD in a good time. On this I've always been impressed with Brisb...
Jump to posthttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/big-secret-inside-virgin-australias-new-boeing-737-max-8/news-story/0d26367832fdce9e8b9ce94be1378269?amp&nk=a8cd503171f13f509b13ee793a6787de-1688089973 Anyone have access? Don’t have access to it but I think its about how someone interviewed at...
Jump to posthttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/big-secret-inside-virgin-australias-new-boeing-737-max-8/news-story/0d26367832fdce9e8b9ce94be1378269?amp&nk=a8cd503171f13f509b13ee793a6787de-1688089973 Anyone have access? Don’t have access to it but I think its about how someone interviewed at...
Jump to postNorth: Dublin (DUB) South: Christchurch (CHC), however I have visited, although not flown out of, Queenstown (ZQN) East: Currently Auckland (AKL), but due to be beaten several times in an upcoming trip to ultimately become Funafuti (FUN) West: Honolulu (HNL) Exclusively in Australia North: Darwin (D...
Jump to postI've got one
Jetstar Asia Flight 3K131, 2 October 2014, SIN-PER
The OOL-KUL flight is subsidised by Gold Coast Airport and the State of Queensland's AAIF, thus they will operate until the subsidy contract expires. The other alternative is to move to BNE and remain at 4x weekly, whilst remaining on AAIF funding. I'm assuming JQ will likely require load restricti...
Jump to postIntuitively I think they could turn a profit on a few NZ<>AU 5th freedom routes, PPT-CHC-MEL strikes me as one possibility. Splitting the PPT-AKL 787 service into two 321 services is another option if cargo space is matched, one originating in SYD, the other in MEL or even ADL might work (seeing as ...
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