Qantas warns LAX on lack of VLA gates

[Gerald A]

04 August 2008

With the launch of its A380 service to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from Melbourne set to begin on 20 October 2008, Qantas Airways has made it clear that it is opposed to using the remote gates at LAX for regularly scheduled aircraft that may not be able to be accommodated at the international terminal.



Link http://www.janes.com/news/transport/business/jar/jar080804_1_n.shtml

[Montague S]

http://yssyforum.net/board/showthread.php?p=10095#post10095

already discussed.

[Bruce Bramwell]

Has anyone told them, that the world doesnt revolve around them :p

[Greg McDonald]

Has anyone told them, that the world doesnt revolve around them :p

Who...the yanks or Qantas? Or both?

[Bruce Bramwell]

QF & the yanks

[D Chan]

Has anyone told them, that the world doesnt revolve around them :p

that sounds a heck of a lot like the oneworld slogan ;)

aren't they the largest foreign carrier into LAX? at least they deserve some leverage / bargaining power if they've got the volumn of flights coming in.
Also no airlines like remote gates, neither do passengers (besides spotters or aviation enthusiasts I guess)

I was doing arrivals once at the international and on that day there were 3 UA flights coming into SYD (one of them a day late). One of them was parked at the remote gate and pax had to be bused in. A family with a member with crutches didn't want to wait and they put up with squeezing into the bus. By the time they reached the terminal they were pretty irate and yelling at the arrivals staff that offered them wheelchairs (and it wasn't even their fault).

[Ash W]

Has anyone told them, that the world doesnt revolve around them :p

If they (Qantas) are a customer paying good money and have a contract to provide a certain level of service then why can they not complain and threaten to take their business elsewhere? It isn't as if LAX is a monopoly, considering a large portion of customers on QF flights through connect to other parts of America which can be done at any large port.

[Malcolm Parker]

surely they should have some bargaining chip, being the largest foreign carrier as per traffic stats of foreign carriers.

Up to DEC 2007 the top foreign carriers in terms of pax numbers at LAX were

Qantas in terms of pax numbers was the 10th biggest carrier (or largest international carrier) with 1 245 226 passengers.
2. Mexicana Airlines 1 150 040 passengers
3. Air Canada 1 011 130 passengers
4. Korean Air 670 461 passengers
5. Cathay Pacific 658 801 passengers

[David Ramsay]

Where did you get those stats from, Malcolm?

I'm not disputing them, just want to look at them to compare some other airlines.

[Malcolm Parker]

Only valid up to end of 2007 nothing for this year, But I hope this helps.

http://www.lawa.org/lax/marketShare.cfm

[Steve Crook]

This is probably a stupid question, but if an A380 does have to use a remote stand would all passengers have to deplane from the lower passenger deck....(which would make for a very slow process on a full flight)...or have airstairs for the upperdeck been developed...(which would make for one heck of a stack of stairs)?