Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

Emirates has officially announced a return to Adelaide from 28 October Daily service on a 777-200 Press conference with the State Government an Emirates underway at the moment Im assuming SA has an incentive program for aviation much like other states do and this is part of that? I assume, since th...

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

Interest to see if Adelaide can maintain EK and QR daily services QR and EK both flew to ADL daily for 4 years before Covid. I’m surprised by how slow Emirates have been to restore capacity to Australia, but it’s good to see it back. 772 is a strange choice though I assume it is a 77L as, IIRC, all...

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

Emirates has officially announced a return to Adelaide from 28 October

Daily service on a 777-200

Press conference with the State Government an Emirates underway at the moment

Re: Australian Aviation - February 2024

Is QF trying to kill off the in seat TV’s on there short haul aircraft? QF didn’t have then installed in the a220s, even though they have said they are going to do international with them at some point. On my last few 738 trips across the Tasman on QF, I’ve started to noted that not all the content...

Re: Australian Aviation - January 2024

Why is it funny? DRW has had a QF group flight to SIN since 1935. ;-) In more recent times, DRW's international connectivity has reduced to a single airline on SIN and a single airline on DPS. (DIL is point to point.) ADL has seen a return of many airlines, so maybe the level of under-service in DR...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2023

Goodbye wrote:

DeltaB717 wrote:

BNEFlyer wrote:

Wearing a very botched hybrid livery.

Very botched. Horrid is another good word for it!

Where did you see the photo?

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2023

Not a silly question. The complexities of what constitutes QF for different elements of the frequent flyer programme often require forensic accountancy skills. The current Senate Inquiry which started out as a review into the Qatar decision has veered off into a general inquiry into how Qantas runs...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2023

The newest 737 for Rex has left Singapore and is travelling through to Brisbane via Darwin.... ZL9967 Aircraft Registration: VH-8KH -8KH is not due to enter service until the 17/8 so she’s going to be sitting in BNE for quite some time, so safe to assume she’ll be having work done on her interior. ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2023

I forgot to mention this the other day but I'm not surprised by the decision by REX to go into SYD-ADL. The route had the highest load factor in the domestic market for capital city pairs for the last 3 reported months - the below for March. ~90% loads for a capital city pair is pretty impressive, ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-priority-boarding-groups QF to introduce a new boarding process for domestic flights. Cheers. It will be interesting to see how much this trial speeds up the boarding process. My gut reaction is that the time benefit will be marginal. Qantas rarely tak...

Re: A Day Trip to Try Denver Air Connection

Great TP - a joy to read.

Hope all went well with the settlement on your house.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

Reading further up with QF operating E190’s across the Tasman ex-BNE with no IFE. I don’t see the problem as everyone these days have entertainment available on their mobile & personally having just travelled IST-AMM 2hrs E195 & AMM-DXB approximately 3 hrs A320 with nil IFE on both sectors....

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

With QR ending their daily 77W ADL-AKL service in August leaving just 3 services per week with Air NZ 320s. Qantas might consider starting ADL- AKL using the 190s which would replace some of the lost seats. Plus this could feed their AKL- JFK as well as the AA AKL- JFK service. I highly doubt E90 h...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Let's hope people understand that they're not going to get full service on a $49 fare (ala what many expected of Tiger/Jetstar/Virgin in their early days - then complained to the media when they got charged for checked luggage, or a drink on board). Sounds like Bonza will be a reasonable experience,...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Don't a lot of US domestic carriers already restrict lounge access to status holders (ie a 'First class' ticket doesn't include lounge access)?

Re: Domestic in Kazakhstan (CIT-NQZ)

Fantastic report. Always great to read about unique locations

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2022

The offer of status match with the "Sitch -a-rooin" will not entice me at all. I suffered through 4 VA flights last month. For what my company paid for , I thought I was on Ryan Air. Sorry cant see that attraction AN767 Have you flown QF recently? VA has always been a bit more ‘bare bones...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - August 2022

A memo has gone out to white collar workers at Qantas asking for 200 to step forward and work 3 months on the ramp mainly as baggage handlers https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/qantas-asks-managers-executives-to-do-baggage-handling-amid-staff-shortages/news-story/dcde4dad5cbc69...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2022

Have the reports about airport chaos been a bit of a media beat up of late? Just did a weekend trip to Melbourne. Got to ADL around 8:30 Friday morning (for what was meant to be a 10:40am flight), and while the media were all there waiting for chaos check in and security were very quiet (in fact the...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2022

Virgin Australia launch teases “a new era of flying” VA's media event that was scheduled for May 27 but cancelled will now be held on Fri 22 July. https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/virgin-australia-new-era-of-flying New era of flying? Brand refresh? Refreshed livery, uniform, cabins? Seems li...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2022

Speaking of REX there is an article in the Australian today about their poor load factors / frequency on the golden triangle. The airline said a four day sample of flights is not representative of the operation. Is the REX experiment working? I'm heading to Melbourne next month. When we were lookin...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2022

It was just a few short years ago VA was the airline where you had broken seats, rude staff, hour long bag drop queues and hour long waits for baggage, and QF was offering a clearly superior service. And around 10 years ago VA (well...it would've been the latter days of DJ) were seen as the fun, inn...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2021

The contract for the WSA rail link has been awarded. First of four boring machines in the ground "early 2023", tunnelling complete "late 2024" after which comes track laying and (6) station fitout. https://www.sydneymetro.info/article/new-sydney-metro-western-sydney-airport-line...

Re: Australian aviation thread - October 2021

Another point to consider RE this new "Bonza" airlines is that the airports they fly to will need security screening for passengers so that will narrow down their port options along with the need for a long enough runway for 737MAX. My local airport can accommodate a 737 but there is no s...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2021