Qantas to boost SYD-HKG flights with A330, adds seasonal Sunday service to SYD-Manila

[Christopher Campbell]

Qantas will add more flights between Australia and Hong Kong and Manila as a result of increasing demand from travellers.
From 26 October 2015*, Qantas will operate an additional four Sydney-Hong Kong services each week, on top of the current daily services available from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Services from Sydney to Manila will increase from four to five per week between early December 2015 and late March 2016 to offer more capacity during the peak holiday season.

The four new Sydney-Hong Kong services will be operated by Qantas’ refurbished A330 aircraft with lie-flat seats in Business and new Economy seats, the first time customers travelling on this route will experience the airline’s latest international product.^

The new Manila services will be available for sale next week and Qantas will keep customers updated.
Schedule*
Flight Dep Arr Days of week Aircraft

QF117 SYD-HKG

1315 1940 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday A330
1340 2005 Tuesday A330

QF118 HKG-SYD
2135 1000+1 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday A330

QF19
SYD-MNL 1725 2230 Sundays A330

QF20
MNL-SYD 2350 1100+1 Sundays A330

The fifth weekly Sydney-Manila service (QF19/20) will operate on Sundays from 6 December 2015 and 20 March 2016 inclusive. Schedule differs from Qantas’ year-round services to Manila which operate four days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Subject to regulatory approval, Qantas will operate this fifth weekly service on a more permanent basis beyond the Northern Winter scheduling season.

[Brad Myer]

QF have applied for the 5th weekly MNL service to be permanent year round.

[Christopher Campbell]

Yeah I forgot about that. So does that mean Qantas has two submissions for operating a fifth service. One for seasonal service and a second for to continue that Sunday service operating?

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Christopher Campbell

Yeah I forgot about that. So does that mean Qantas has two submissions for operating a fifth service. One for seasonal service and a second for to continue that Sunday service operating?

In the case of the IASC Qantas have no submissions as they currently are under utilising their granted capacity:

http://iasc.gov.au/determinations_de...014iasc115.pdf

[Brad Myer]

The 5th weekly SYD-MNL-SYD will now be year round.

A Friday SYD-HKG as also been added meaning 2x daily SYD-HKG-SYD Monday thru Friday.