Qantas daily SYD-DFW

[Emil C]

QANTAS during peak travel season is increasing Sydney – Dallas/Ft. Worth operation, as it plans daily service from 02DEC15 to 25JAN16. The oneWorld member currently operates this route 6 times a week, with Airbus A380 aircraft.

Note the flight will not be operating on 24DEC15 and 31DEC15.

QF007 SYD1525 – 1345DFW 388 D
QF008 DFW2010 – 0605+2SYD 388 D

http://airlineroute.net/2015/04/01/qf-dfw-dec15/

[Tom Lohdan]

Interesting to see if they fill it.

UA is offering SYD-NYC for ~$1000 all in RT during the following dates, on the outbound pacific leg, no minimum stay:

07JUL 15 THROUGH 10SEP 15
06OCT 15 THROUGH 10DEC 15
12JAN 16 THROUGH 31MAR 16

Must be about 5 years since I flew the $900 RT SYD-JFK flights, every 2nd weekend was NY :D

[MarkR]

Interesting to see if they fill it.

UA is offering SYD-NYC for ~$1000 all in RT during the following dates, on the outbound pacific leg, no minimum stay:

07JUL 15 THROUGH 10SEP 15
06OCT 15 THROUGH 10DEC 15
12JAN 16 THROUGH 31MAR 16

Must be about 5 years since I flew the $900 RT SYD-JFK flights, every 2nd weekend was NY :D

It's Christmas time, they will fill it, and a lot of the traffic is not heading to NYC anyway on that route but taking advantage of the AA hub to go elsewhere. NYC traffic tends to be via LAX for QF as the pax prefer QF all the way through with the domestic flight on the 744, which does remarkably well helping to put QF on the list of top 10 traffic carriers by pax at LAX, with 180000 domestic passengers carried last year.

[NathanJ]

Hopefully they have enough "fat" in the a380 schedule to handle this frequency increase...

[Tony Chatham]

Hopefully they have enough "fat" in the a380 schedule to handle this frequency increase

I'd rest easy on that as Qantas have some of the best scheduling brains on the planet.

[NathanJ]

Oh i'm sure they do... that said unexpected aircraft failures do tend to cause havoc to that amazing scheduling system. For example Qantas 2 has been delayed into Sydney around 12 hrs the last 3 days due to a failed a380 in London. Good times for all involved!

[Tony Chatham]

The engineers 'sign-off' all schedules. No one can avoid an aircraft becoming unserviceable that disrupts a schedule, just like adverse weather.

[NathanJ]

Oh and QF7 departing 7-8 hours late this evening and last night Offffft!