BNE-EMD will have the E190 operating select services beginning in mid-May. The Q400s on BNE-HTI/NTL/PPP have also been replaced with E190s. Where will the freed up Q400(s) go? The last flight BNE-CBR and first flight in the other direction have been switched to a Q400. Out of SYD, the Q400s are als...
Jump to postHawaiian Airlines 787 N781HA inbound to BNE as HA9805. would this be just a test flight for crew familiarisation or could it be a proving flight for a new route? N781HA is on a FAA proving run to an out-of-network airport prior to beginning revenue service. While HA did service BNE thrice-weekly fo...
Jump to postI don't think 'tenuous at best' is at all fair. There is a pretty clear lineage from Imperial Airways/British Airways Limited > BOAC > British Airways. Or, if you want to be pedantic, Imperial Airways/British Airways Limited > Air Ministry/National Air Communications > BOAC > British Airways. It re...
Jump to postIf you think that BA claiming to be 100 in 2019 was disingenuous, then I’d argue that KLM’s claim to be 100 years demands closer scrutiny. In 1940 the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. All airline services within the Nazi occupied areas were operated by Lufthansa. KLM was shut down. A number of KLM c...
Jump to postQF putting up the fees for Qantas Club membership from 18 April. https://www.qantas.com/ie/en/frequent-flyer/the-qantas-club/membership-types.html For all the whining about Qantas these days, I appreciate them a lot more than others. They don't charge for checked bags like the US3, they don't hawk ...
Jump to postHow many A380's Qantas has in service now? OQA/C/K/L are in AUH for maintenance, so 6 are in service. OQA should be re-entering service imminently. OQC hasn't flown since June 2021 when it repositioned VCV-AUH. OQK arrived at AUH on 24/2/2024 and I believe it is in for a gear change? I think it wil...
Jump to postThis is obviously very good start, but until Spain implements the same is kinda useless. You still need to fly back. It will take 5-10 years until this is useful for many. So no big deal. I'm sorry but I don't know well the subject: what is the connection with Spain? Is this a request by Spanish au...
Jump to postI’ve only flown two airlines and four aircraft Trans-Pacific: United 777 (SYD-SFO, SYD-LAX, LAX-SYD), United 789 (LAX-MEL), Qantas 747 (LAX-MEL, LAX-BNE, DFW-BNE) and Qantas A380 (SYD-DFW, LAX-SYD).
If Hawaii counts then I can add Qantas 767 (SYD-HNL) and Jetstar A330 (SYD-HNL, HNL-SYD).
“The end is nigh!” Thinking you mean “near”? Y'all are so dramatic….. He’s only allowed 15% of the shares and proxy guard rails have been put in place. A N Y T H I N G can happen in this industry. You all seem SO sure of B6’s demise. It’s not over until it’s over. While archaic language, “the end i...
Jump to postB6 launched TLH at the start of the year with 1x daily FLL-TLH. Anyone know how the route is doing overall and if there's any potential at adding more service to either FLL or JFK or BOS? I don’t think JFK or BOS have been considered to any extent. However, this is a very pivotal time for B6 so any...
Jump to postThis is a non-trivial amount of weight added to the flight. With all the scrutiny from the FAA United are under I wonder how this will be treated from a regulatory point of view. It doesn’t add any weight actually. Bags in overhead bins are already accounted for in the standard passenger weights. W...
Jump to postIts odd as I'm sure they tried claiming they were 100 years old not that long ago. Which was tenuous at best . The current livery works and I'm not sure the average person cares that much anyway I don't think 'tenuous at best' is at all fair. There is a pretty clear lineage from Imperial Airways/Br...
Jump to postThe Male flights have been downsized to B789 from B773 today. It’s the change of season between the IATA winter and summer seasons, so there are likely to be a lot of changes this weekend. This one makes sense as summer is the wet season/monsoon in the Maldives. To be blunt, I’m not sure why anyone...
Jump to postGiven that UA among other airlines managed to force a leadership change at Boeing, I would like to think that there is a gentleman's agreement that there won't be a substantial Airbus order as part of the "deal" to change the leadership. Why? The leadership change does not suddenly change...
Jump to postIn the old days you'd just fly the parts and engineers out, fudge the paperwork and then see what happens. Unfortunately the high social media coverage makes it more difficult now. Considering the EU and US are not fond of Emirates, there will be a lot of lawyers watching what happens here. If they...
Jump to postJetstar to commence a 1x daily service from Avalon to Brisbane from 28 June. This marks their 100th domestic route. Source: https://newsroom.bne.com.au/jetstar-to-launch-brisbane-to-avalon-flights/ I didn’t realise they had cancelled BNE-AVV in the first place. Was it operated up until Covid, but d...
Jump to postThey've finally been throwing extra FAs on global flying in the past year or so; I've noticed quite a bit more attentive service with the additional help on my last few TATL legs. I was under the impression they recently cut an FA from long haul flying? I thought that was why Polaris meals are no l...
Jump to postUA isn't able to make too many secondary airports work (including ones that AA/DL can make work): LGB, HOU, DAL, OAK, MDW, STS, MLB, HPN, JFK (which is obviously complicated by slot availability) The only way UA makes JFK work is if they can secure at least 14 slot pairs (something like 4 LAX, 4 SF...
Jump to post01/19 does not have EMAS at either end https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2403/00443AD.PDF But it’s almost 1000 feet of grass at each end before you hit the water. No aircraft is likely to going swimming there. read post #22 of mine "Wouldn't have made any difference as this incident was a low spee...
Jump to postNot lower level, but doesn’t the A380 have an elevator/left for handicapped passengers?
Jump to postUnited should start PHL-LAX. Why? Six daily flights in April by AA including two widebodies plus a daily Spirit flight might make that a tough nut for UA to crack. New Jersey geographically is a small state, tons of United frequent flyers in the State who usually fly from EWR may like Philadelphia ...
Jump to postI believe an early Australian Aviation article suggested each QF A380 requires 4 flight crews (Captain, 2 FO's, and a Second officer) in addition to cabin crews (about 19ish?). Surely the number of tech crew is simply a function of duty time? I’ve never heard that the A380 always flies with 4 crew,...
Jump to postHeard of Australian travel math? For Australians a 6 hour flight is more like a 3 hour flight, a 8 or 9 hour flight is more like a 5 hour flight, a 10 hour flight is like a 7 hour flight and a 15 hour flight is more like a 9 hour flight. After the long haul back from Europe to Asia (usually Singapo...
Jump to postVery good that this plane was flying DCA->DFW on this incident and not the other way around. Little coincidences like that always fascinate me about aviation incidents. If the brakes fail one flight earlier, we're possibly talking about a plane in the Potomac River. DCA has the arresting concrete a...
Jump to postI would think it would be better to do A220-100 & A220-300 mix to replace the F100's, E190's, 717 & A319's. As Qantas could benefit across the board. Eleminating 3 models that have additional parts, different cockpits & FA training & removing the small A319-100 fleet. They won’t rep...
Jump to postTatl isn’t getting cut, that’s a big source of revenue. The Annual Report said TATL represented 3.1% of capacity by ASMs last year, and 2.7% of operating revenues. That's not big, nor premium, given low density/high Mint seat count. That doesn’t sound like nothing, and what will it be this year? An...
Jump to postStinkyPinky wrote:
I don't think TAP brings a lot to the IAG network but I can see that buying TAP would give them a very comfy staus quo as the main carrier at 2 slot constrained airports which would in turn give them a lot of influence over pricing in those markets. TAP is very strong in Brasil, which is both the l...
Jump to postThis is a general comment, so I’m not going to reply to a particular post: People need to stop obsessing about making PER-AKL work for connections. It doesn’t work unless it’s run double daily. If this was so important then NZ would be flying double daily (or split 3x/4x schedule) timed for US conn...
Jump to postCould QF make a better go if ORD than NZ? I assume anyone with GE engines and a less dense cabin could I mean NZ could have kept ORD, given they suspended it instead of somewhere else shows it’s the weakest of the US routes for them. Cabin density wouldn’t have had anything to do with them not oper...
Jump to postFrontier at JFK...they could potentially cause chaos on the lucrative JFK-LAX/SFO transcons when the XLR comes on property (assuming they're still flying there by then). Yeah no. They'd need frequency (slots likely not available to them) and corporate contracts. Neither available to F9 in enough me...
Jump to postThis is a general comment, so I’m not going to reply to a particular post: People need to stop obsessing about making PER-AKL work for connections. It doesn’t work unless it’s run double daily. If this was so important then NZ would be flying double daily (or split 3x/4x schedule) timed for US conne...
Jump to post... there’s enough Saffas in WA to sustain the route without worrying about connecting flights. The WA- Sth African born population matches NSW and is higher than any other state. Does that rule out QF or SA launching MEL-JNB? Africa seems like a key gap in MEL's connectivity. Probably yes, it’s a ...
Jump to postYou can be sure that if any of the pilots went to the back of the cabin after the upset to check and talk with passengers its only because they absolutely knew exactly what caused the upset and that they were certain there was no chance it would happen again out of the blue. Otherwise they would ne...
Jump to postAs Asiana is an existing A350 operator this makes a lot of sense by not adding further complexity to the merged fleet. They’re already going to operate 787, A350, 77W, 74H, A380 as it is, so removing a fleet type as the 777s are retired streamlines things slightly.
Jump to postInitial hearing today has been a bit of a farce. TWU started asking about compensation for itself to cover lost members' fees. The judge was not impressed I’m a paid up union member but this is the sort of garbage that makes me want to bang my head against the wall and/or cut up my membership card....
Jump to postEWR (#1 by far, always from Europe)
SFO (SYD)
LAX (SYD, MEL)
DFW (SYD, CUN)
MIA (LHR, UIO, GUA)
IAD (LHR)
HNL (SYD)
I think that’s it, not a long list.
I know I flew through JFK several times when I was a toddler, but have no memory of it so won’t include that.
Fantastic to see Shanghai get over the line! Juneyao Airlines - Shanghai Pudong to Manchester. Flights start 3 July 2024 HO1661 PVG 0155-0730 MAN (Wed, Fri & Sun) HO1662 MAN 1040-0550+1 PVG (Wed, Fri & Sun) Via SeanM on X This is stretching my memory, but did Juneyao fly to MAN before Covid...
Jump to postA couple of months ago someone shared their frustration with Qantas points booking with Japan Airlines where there was no connection/booking with Japan Airlines when they turned up. A similar QFF screw-up happen to me the other day. Using point we booked Melbourne to Phnom Penh on the Qantas app. T...
Jump to postAssume others here can tell the type just by hearing it? It's an avgeek thing right? They are overhead from me at about 2000ft on departure off 19R My observations: JQ 787's are the quietest aircraft on departure JQ 320's are the noisiest aircraft on departure A350 are distinctive but much noiser t...
Jump to postI think you may be thinking of fortress hub, not megahub. Fortress hubs are basically airports with one dominant carrier that carries a large percentage like you mentioned (80%+). I would only consider DL's ATL hub and AA's DFW hub as megahubs. CLT is closing in on that definition. It bears mention...
Jump to postThe press for Boeing has been bad enough lately but this information appeared on CNN's website under the headline "Boeing Is In Big Trouble". According to this passenger, the pilot told him that the "gauges kind of went blank on him." LATAM is describing it as a "technical ...
Jump to postThoughts on UA launching ORD-AKL now NZ has to suspend the route due to 787 engine issues? ORD-AKL is by far the weakest of NZ's US routes. I don't see a reason for UA to touch that. Would be ORD POS-dominant - the UA brand would have more awareness and be in a better position to market the route? ...
Jump to postThere has never been talk of a QF/SQ merger but SQ was originally the preferred bidder for the 25% trade sale of QF before it listed in the '90s. For some reason that was never fully explained, the Keating Government chose the lesser BA bid instead. SQ was angered by what it saw as a colonial snub ...
Jump to postQF originally invited and escorted MH into Oneworld to do what you suggested with MH from KUL but it never went anywhere and QF doesn't appear to have any interest in operating its own flights to the Malaysian capital. I had the same thought. It was Qantas that formally invited Malaysia Airlines to...
Jump to postAustralia could again see flights to Hamilton in New Zealand. A report from Hamilton Airport Chief Executive Mark Morgan has reportedly highlighted “the first credible engagement with international airlines in a decade” - "He said there had been genuine inquiries into the possibility of schedu...
Jump to postSFO-SYD goes back to a daily 77W for NS? That’s right, so 2x 77W in summer, 77W+772 in March, and 1x 77W in northern summer. Be interesting to see what they schedule next NW for SYD-SFO? Seems a bit of over capacity but possibly good freight loads granting the use for the 77W? I was thinking that f...
Jump to postYes, the 77Es have been operating a few flights into SYD. They cannot do MEL without severe payload limitations. They’re operating the UA829/UA870 rotation until the end of the season SFO-SYD goes back to a daily 77W for NS? That’s right, so 2x 77W in summer, 77W+772 in March, and 1x 77W in norther...
Jump to postA fight is on our hands - MAN-PVG is in hot demand! After China Eastern took the Juneyao slots for a June 28 start, Juneyao are now reportedly refusing to give up the rights to the MAN-PVG route. We may see both end up operating the route through special dispensation, but as it stands, only one wil...
Jump to postTG788 wrote:On Flightradar 24 there is a VN B787 going from Canberra to Auckland with flight number VN1. The last few days it’s flown between Melbourne and Canberra. Is it related to the ASEAN meeting?