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NTLDaz wrote:Today's Newcastle clue is a NEW vibrant bar scene. So sunshine, beaches and a new vibrant bar scene. Leaning towards Perth.
Their FB post says no-one has guessed it yet so that would defo knock out ADL, DPS and NAN.
Not sure of the significance of NEW being capitalised.
Obzerva wrote:NTLDaz wrote:Today's Newcastle clue is a NEW vibrant bar scene. So sunshine, beaches and a new vibrant bar scene. Leaning towards Perth.
Their FB post says no-one has guessed it yet so that would defo knock out ADL, DPS and NAN.
Not sure of the significance of NEW being capitalised.
Well if NEW is in caps, then it's clearly SB starting flights
Boof wrote:back in 2001/2 I think it was, Freedom(Air NZ) flew NTL/AKL. think it was a couple of flights a week. When they pulled out(might have been when Freedom closed down) charters were looked at using Tongan 752, but the instigators got no local support at NTL so plan was scuttled.Obzerva wrote:NTLDaz wrote:Today's Newcastle clue is a NEW vibrant bar scene. So sunshine, beaches and a new vibrant bar scene. Leaning towards Perth.
Their FB post says no-one has guessed it yet so that would defo knock out ADL, DPS and NAN.
Not sure of the significance of NEW being capitalised.
Well if NEW is in caps, then it's clearly SB starting flights
That was one of the guesses on Facebook today I noticed!
Cairns has a new and vibrant bar scene and things are happening up there.
I haven't looked into this with enough detail to see if this is possible but I'm wondering if this isn't a rejig of one of the JQ A320's based in CNS to provide a NTL service? It fits the clues that it's new, beaches, & bar scene.
TSV-DPS is ending in March, and that is operated by a CNS based A320 and Tech Crew. Currently the aircraft routing is CNS-DPS-TSV-BNE-TSV-DPS-CNS. If a BNE based aircraft takes the TSV and return service, and a rejig of the DPS times out of CNS there is bandwidth for a NTL service??
I dunno but it is fun to guess!
INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
PA515
PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
NTLDaz wrote:PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
NTLDaz wrote:PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
RyanairGuru wrote:NTLDaz wrote:PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
Surely that has to Bali? Bali Hai is the only cocktail I can think of that is named after a destination that could be reasonably flown from NTL.
RyanairGuru wrote:National Jet got taken over by Cobham Aviation and rebranded, but for some reason Qantas still refers to them as National Jet and not Cobham even though that is incorrect.
NTLDaz wrote:PA515 wrote:It's definitely NTL-ADL but who is operating the flight is not in the google intro.
Google 'Newcastle Airport new route 2018' and you get this:INTRODUCING OUR NEW DESTINATION
From March 2018 Newcastle Airport will begin Adelaide direct service, giving the people of the Hunter a gateway to the state's significant commercial hub, along with world-famous luxury accommodation, food and wine regions such as the Barossa and McLean Vale, and .....
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
zkncj wrote:RyanairGuru wrote:NTLDaz wrote:
However, the link has now been deleted. https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/new-route
Not too sure that's legit. New clue just posted.
PSSST! Clue time: Our newest destination has inspired the name of many a cocktail. Is it happy hour yet???
Surely that has to Bali? Bali Hai is the only cocktail I can think of that is named after a destination that could be reasonably flown from NTL.
SIN? Could an 77E or 332 use NTL? SQ is known not to be 100% happy with loads ex-CBR could they be routing the SIN-CBR-WLG service? Could it become WLG-NTL-SIN?
ben175 wrote:The cocktail clue has to be SIN... but SIN isn't necessarily a beach destination.
SIN-NTL on Scoot?
I was really hoping for PER.
qf002 wrote:The new route will obviously be NTL-BDB, connecting Australia's thriving bogan centres.
Boof wrote:[/quote]TSV-DPS is ending in March, and that is operated by a CNS based A320 and Tech Crew. Currently the aircraft routing is CNS-DPS-TSV-BNE-TSV-DPS-CNS. If a BNE based aircraft takes the TSV and return service, and a rejig of the DPS times out of CNS there is bandwidth for a NTL service??
I dunno but it is fun to guess!
vhqpa wrote:RE: NJS/Cobham Names
According to their AOC their registered name is "National Jet Systems Pty. ltd." but trade as "Cobham Aviation Services Australia" I'm guessing that is the reason "Operated by National Jet Systems" appears on QF boarding passes.
https://www.casa.gov.au/search_aoc/National%20jet%20systems
RE: NTL guessing game
I'm stumped. I'm leaning more towards DPS than anything else. With the cocktail clue the first thing that came to my mind was Singapore (Sling) but then SIN isn't really known for its beaches. The only other well known locale named cocktails I can think of are Long Island Ice Tea and Manhattan. But that's not going to happen.
jman wrote:Boof wrote:TSV-DPS is ending in March, and that is operated by a CNS based A320 and Tech Crew. Currently the aircraft routing is CNS-DPS-TSV-BNE-TSV-DPS-CNS. If a BNE based aircraft takes the TSV and return service, and a rejig of the DPS times out of CNS there is bandwidth for a NTL service??
I dunno but it is fun to guess!
Actually, the TSV-DPS is operated by a BNE based A320 and a mixed Tech Crew. The Aircraft does BNE-TSV-DPS-TSV-BNE. The day the flight leaves it will do a few sectors out of Brisbane and then the day it arrives back in Brisbane it does a 2 sector flight out of Brisbane after lunch time
Boof wrote:
Looks like the B is Adelaide.... This was shared on a Newcastle Cyclists forum, I was searching for the NTL page and just found this.
NTLDaz wrote:There's one that says Perth as well out there.
Some mischief making going on.
Boof wrote:jman wrote:Boof wrote:TSV-DPS is ending in March, and that is operated by a CNS based A320 and Tech Crew. Currently the aircraft routing is CNS-DPS-TSV-BNE-TSV-DPS-CNS. If a BNE based aircraft takes the TSV and return service, and a rejig of the DPS times out of CNS there is bandwidth for a NTL service??
I dunno but it is fun to guess!
Actually, the TSV-DPS is operated by a BNE based A320 and a mixed Tech Crew. The Aircraft does BNE-TSV-DPS-TSV-BNE. The day the flight leaves it will do a few sectors out of Brisbane and then the day it arrives back in Brisbane it does a 2 sector flight out of Brisbane after lunch time
A based aircraft isn't registration specific... however I'm not one for arguing online so I'm happy to stand corrected.
Regardless of where the aircraft comes from with the TSV-DPS being dropped there is about 12 hours of A320 flying disappearing soon and an NTL-DPS-NTL route would soak that up nicely.
Boof wrote:
Looks like the B is Adelaide.... This was shared on a Newcastle Cyclists forum, I was searching for the NTL page and just found this.
qf789 wrote:Today's QF95 MEL-LAX has been cancelled due to VH-ZNA still being in LAX
qf2220 wrote:I can't make sense of the cocktail reference. ..
IndianicWorld wrote:qf789 wrote:Today's QF95 MEL-LAX has been cancelled due to VH-ZNA still being in LAX
This will likely just become even more challenging once the MEL-PER-LHR service starts.
The operational pattern for the 4 aircraft will be interesting to see how it plays out.
NTLDaz wrote:My only hope is there will be multiple announcements.
NTLDaz wrote:LAST CLUE: Our newest destination’s reputation precedes it. Dripping in gold and down the way, the epicurean will delight here. ....But can you guess where?
Looking like ADL - how very boring. My only hope is there will be multiple announcements.
jman wrote:All the aircraft rotate throughout the various bases every week, but the TSV-DPS always starts and ends in brisbane and gets crewed by Brisbane crew. Its more of 18 hours of A320 flying because it starts in Brisbane before going to Townsville and ends in Brisbane after leaving Townsville. The Brisbane aircraft schedule is based around that aircraft not being available to Brisbane flights 18 hours every few days, and on the days it doesn't do the TSV-DPS it does other routes to keep up the fleet utilisation
NTLDaz wrote:LAST CLUE: Our newest destination’s reputation precedes it. Dripping in gold and down the way, the epicurean will delight here. ....But can you guess where?
Looking like ADL - how very boring. My only hope is there will be multiple announcements.
EK413 wrote:IndianicWorld wrote:qf789 wrote:Today's QF95 MEL-LAX has been cancelled due to VH-ZNA still being in LAX
This will likely just become even more challenging once the MEL-PER-LHR service starts.
The operational pattern for the 4 aircraft will be interesting to see how it plays out.
That’s going to be very interesting. Obviously the MEL-LAX, MEL-SFO bound pax re-accom on SYD-SFO & redirect the inbound B789 from LHR-PER-MEL back to PER-LHR.
EK413
Boof wrote:jman wrote:All the aircraft rotate throughout the various bases every week, but the TSV-DPS always starts and ends in brisbane and gets crewed by Brisbane crew. Its more of 18 hours of A320 flying because it starts in Brisbane before going to Townsville and ends in Brisbane after leaving Townsville. The Brisbane aircraft schedule is based around that aircraft not being available to Brisbane flights 18 hours every few days, and on the days it doesn't do the TSV-DPS it does other routes to keep up the fleet utilisation
I checked the schedules before posting last time and the BNE-TSV service of an evening and return of a morning is being retimed and new flight number but it's not going away. It will still be double daily each day hence why I'm saying there are about 12 hours of flying to fill regardless of where the crew or aircraft is based.
planemanofnz wrote:
LOL MooLor wrote:Singapore
RyanairGuru wrote:Singapore
vhqpa wrote:Singapore
zkncj wrote:Singapore
Boof wrote:Singapore
qf789 wrote:EK413 wrote:IndianicWorld wrote:
This will likely just become even more challenging once the MEL-PER-LHR service starts.
The operational pattern for the 4 aircraft will be interesting to see how it plays out.
That’s going to be very interesting. Obviously the MEL-LAX, MEL-SFO bound pax re-accom on SYD-SFO & redirect the inbound B789 from LHR-PER-MEL back to PER-LHR.
EK413
Yes sounds about right, was thinking the same thing
jman wrote:Actually, it is two flights a day 4 times a week, and 3 flights a day 3 days a week. The flight that leaves 3 days a week (which is a tag flight that becomes the TSV-DPS) is the flight being cancelled. And at present, the late night flight returns immediately to Brisbane arriving just after midnight, so i'd hardly call it a return of morning flight. The morning TSV flight and evening TSV flight are flown by two different aircraft, so there isn't actually about 12 hours of flying to fill, and the only reason the crew and aircraft based part was brought up was because it was stated that the TSV-DPS was crewed by CNS crew, which was incorrect which i pointed out.
planemanofnz wrote:MI has recently added the 737 MAX 8, which has an estimated maximum range of 3515 nm (6509 km) - NTL - SIN is only 3393 nm.
