QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[C Patters]

Is anyone aware of any repaints coming up soon?
I know that OQI is the last A380 to be done in the new livery, some of the latest A330-200's need painting & I'm guessing the latest 737's XZ rego series will be coming up soon as they are now 10+yrs

[Greg Hyde]

VH-NXN has departed Canberra for VCV as SXI2435

[Brenden S]

Originally Posted by C Patters

Is anyone aware of any repaints coming up soon?
I know that OQI is the last A380 to be done in the new livery, some of the latest A330-200's need painting & I'm guessing the latest 737's XZ rego series will be coming up soon as they are now 10+yrs

http://yssyforum.net/board/showthrea...=11282&page=42

[Greg Hyde]

NXN has just landed at VCV completing her ferry to storage.

[MarkR]

Suspension of Sydney-Shanghai service from 28 July 2024
New route from Brisbane to Manila to take off from 28 October 2024
Additional flights to Singapore and India
Qantas is making a series of updates to its Asia network with schedule changes and launch of a new route.
Suspension of Sydney-Shanghai flights
From 28 July 2024, flights to Shanghai will be suspended due to low demand.
Qantas resumed its Sydney-Shanghai service in October last year after it was paused during COVID, however demand has not recovered as anticipated.
Qantas will continue to monitor the Australia-China market closely and will look to return to Shanghai when demand has recovered.
Customers can continue to travel to Shanghai and other destinations in China on Qantas flights to Hong Kong with onward connections on partner airlines. Qantas Frequent Flyers can earn and redeem Qantas Points when travelling with partner airlines.
Customers booked to travel on Shanghai flights from 28 July will be contacted and offered a full refund, or they can contact Qantas or their travel agent to discuss rebooking on alternative flights.
Aircraft used on this route will be redirected to boost flying to other destinations across Asia where there is increasing demand or new tourism opportunities.
New route from Brisbane to Manila
Customers will have access to a new international route out of Brisbane with the flying kangaroo set to begin flights to Manila.* From 28 October 2024, the route will operate four days per week with Airbus A330 aircraft, marking the first time the airline has flown between the two cities in more than 10 years.
The flights add to Qantas’ existing daily service from Sydney and will add more than 100,000 seats between Australia and the Philippines each year.
Additional flying to Singapore and India
Qantas will increase flying to Singapore by around 10 per cent, offering more than 2,500 additional seats per week between Australia and the Lion City.
Sydney to Singapore will increase from 14 to 17 return flights per week from 11 December 2024.*
Brisbane to Singapore will increase from seven to nine return flights per week from 27 October 2024, timed to improve connectivity with Qantas’ daily service from Singapore to London, reducing overall travel time to Heathrow by around four hours.*
Flights from Sydney to Bengaluru will also increase from five per week to daily to cater for strong demand over the peak holiday season.* The extra flights will operate between mid-December 2024 and late March 2025, adding over 12,000 seats between the two cities over the four-month period.
Tickets for the additional flights are available for sale at qantas.com and through travel agents. The new Brisbane-Manila flights will be available to book in the coming days.

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/me...etwork-update/

[Ryan K]

Yet Qantas is still sending clapped out A330-200s, without proper seat back entertainment, to Singapore from Australia. Compared to their competitors, this hard product is chalk and cheese. How Qantas ever got itself into this situation is laughable.

[Greg Hyde]

QF are replacing Dash8's with E190's on some East Coast services.

[Zac M]

Which services Greg?

[Greg Hyde]

Zac,

Noticed several airports announcing the start E190 replacing Dash8 services.

Newcastle (to BNE I think),

https://www.facebook.com/ntlairport/...jbKXgq58GQdCyl
also Central Queensland (Emerald)

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

Zac,

Noticed several airports announcing the start E190 replacing Dash8 services.

Newcastle (to BNE I think),

https://www.facebook.com/ntlairport/...jbKXgq58GQdCyl
also Central Queensland (Emerald)

Most of these changes came into effect in late March or early April - the only one that started a bit later was EMD which started this week.

NTL-BNE and NTL-MEL have both changed to E190s, although MEL was previously a B717 not a Dash.

BNE-ABX is now an E190, and the E190s have taken over more of the flying from BNE to places like GLT and ROK.

What will be interesting to watch is the end of B717 services at SYD. For instance, the SYD-LST service is already in the system as an E190 (replacing the current B717) from October, but there are no other SYD-based E190 services showing as yet apart from the TSV-SYD which obviously is a TSV-based service. Will E190s start to show up on SYD to places like CBR (looks more like B737 but who knows), regional NSW and WTB?