QANTAS and Olympic Athletes

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Originally Posted by Joseph Saragozza.

dose anybody have any images of the aircraft at/in the hanger.
i had a glimpse this morning on tv before i went to school and it only had the 744 VH-OJH 'Darwin' in there.

joseph.

I'm sure it'll be all over Seven News tonight at 6.00 and probably Today Tonight (shudder) after that as well.

[Joseph Saragozza.]

i had a look but it had nothing on the A330
it would of been a shame as all the athletes on the 744 got all the attention. lol

[Nigel C]

Originally Posted by Joseph Saragozza.

dose anybody have any images of the aircraft at/in the hanger.
i had a glimpse this morning on tv before i went to school and it only had the 744 VH-OJH 'Darwin' in there.

joseph.

I dare say they'd be pushing it to have a B747, A330 and all of the media and athletes in there all at the same time without being super crowded and becoming dangerous.

[Joseph Saragozza.]

Originally Posted by Nigel C
I dare say they'd be pushing it to have a B747, A330 and all of the media and athletes in there all at the same time without being super crowded and becoming dangerous.

yeah i figured that. please correct me if i am wrong, but i would of thought the would have the two planes close to one another like the did in 2004.

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Joseph Saragozza.

i had a look but it had nothing on the A330
it would of been a shame as all the athletes on the 744 got all the attention. lol

Koshie kept refering to the A330 as a A380

[Grant Smith]

Originally Posted by Rhys Xanthis

Plus most of the destinations the cricketers go to aren't served by QF so a charter is uneconomical, but EK flies to loads of destinations, esp. Sth Africa, India.

Rhys,

You best go and check out the QF website and check the destinations they fly to...

Last time I checked - QF flew to cricket playing nations such as South Africa, India, NZ & England. And the rest of the nations they play against are potentially served by other Oneworld partners with the exceptions of probably Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Bangledesh.

[Rhys Xanthis]

True, but my point was that the amount of destinations served by EK in those countries is larger than QF.

[BradR]

The official international airline of the Australian Cricket Team before Emirates was....Cathay Pacific

Of course it is all about money but it did lead to some weird routings for tours of the West Indies which typically commenced with a flight to Hong Kong, then New York before the team joined a US airline for the flight to Jamaica etc. The other routing was to London with Cathay then Air Jamaica.

Brad

[Arthur T]

Originally Posted by Michael Rychter

I was surprised how scruffy the 747 looked.

Imagine your wedding day and the hire car turned up unwashed.

Poor effort Qantas!

Yeah, looks not good to carry our VIP guests - Olympic Medalists.
Anyway, I think would it be the last time to use 747 to carry Olympic Athletes?
(Use A380 Next Time! )

In addition of chartering 1x744 and 1x333 for the Athletes, would there be chartered QF 763s, 738s even DH4s for our non-Sydney Athletes (eg. Stephanie Rice from Qld, Cate Campbell from Vic) back home, or just give them J Class tickets back?

(If they are not chartering aircrafts anymore, we may have a chance to have Stephanie Rice to sit next to you! )

No Quarantine!!??