QF A380 ops changes

[Rowan McKeever]

Qantas announced this afternoon QF7/8 will switch to A380 nonstop SYD-DFW-SYD, eliminating the BNE stop on QF8, from 29 September. Frequency reduces to 6 per week with the loss of the Tuesday service, but capacity up approx. 10%.

Facilitating this is the long-awaited retiming of LHR services. QF9 now departs MEL late evening for lunchtime arrival into LHR, with QF10 leaving LHR at lunchtime for an early evening arrival into MEL. From the schedules the flying pattern will be QF1-QF10-QF9-QF2.

http://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/med...llasfort-worth

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

Rowan, Considering QF10 used to arrive YMML around 4.30am EDST for memory, then went on to QF93 to LA, is Qantas now going to ferry down a A380 Ex Sydney for the QF93 service or will the A380 off QF10 stay overnight, then depart as QF93?

Stuart

[Rowan McKeever]

QF94 will turn as QF93, QF10 will turn as QF9 is my take on it Stuart, although presumably they'll need to adjust the schedules for 93/94. Otherwise they're just shifting the long stays from LHR to MEL which wouldn't free the aircraft up for DFW.

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

This was taken from "The Qantas Source" Website

QANTAS today announced its revised schedule on London Heathrow services which will reduce the number of aircraft required for London services from six to five aircraft. The new schedule, from July 20th, retimes the Melbourne services and means aircraft will fly a six day W pattern originating in Sydney. The aircraft schedule will be follows:

QF1 Sydney 1550 – Dubai 0035+1
QF1 Dubai 0215 – London Heathrow 0645

QF10 London Heathrow 1330 – Dubai 2325
QF10 Dubai 0115+1 – Melbourne 2055

QF9 Melbourne 2255 – Dubai 0705+1
QF9 Dubai 0905 – London Heathrow 1340

QF2 London Heathrow 2125 – Dubai 0720+1
QF2 Dubai 0920 – Sydney 0510+1.

One significant effect of the rescheduling is that the late Melbourne arrival of QF10 will eliminate all onward connections from Melbourne for that service, meaning all passengers wishing to connect to anywhere other than Sydney and Melbourne yet still fly on QANTAS aircraft will be forced to use the QF2 Sydney service.

So Rowan, you are Right. Bugger for anyone wanting a connection in Melb onwards.

Stuart

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Here is the confirmation of the changes...

QANTAS from 20JUL14 is changing operational schedules on Melbourne – Dubai – London Heathrow service. From Melbourne, departure time will be pushed back by 3 hours, while London departure shifts from night-time to daytime. Arrival into Melbourne will switch from morning hours to evening hours as a result.

QF009 MEL2255 – 0705+1DXB0910+1 – 1340+1LHR 388 D
QF010 LHR1330 – 2325DXB0135+1 – 2055+1MEL 388 D

From 01NOV14, Day 6 departure from LHR remains at night-time with following schedule:
QF010 LHR2215 – 0910+1DXB1055+1 – 0735+2MEL 388 6

http://airlineroute.net/2014/05/09/qf-mellhr-jul14/

[Andrew RC]

Has anybody been able to work out the required changes on SYD-HKG A380 ops, which are currently A380 Thurs-Mon and 744 Tues-Wed?

From what I can gather the LHR and maintenance rescheduling will free up the equivalent of 1x A380 to allow 3 times a week ops to DFW. Given DFW will be 6 days a week, will that require cutting back SYD-HKG to only 1 or 2 days a week with A380 service?

I'm holding off booking a HKG flight until QF announce proposed "change to the SYD-HKG 744/A380 mix".

[Rowan McKeever]

Non-daylight savings times for the new QF7/8:

QF7 SYD1310-1345DFW x2
QF8 DFW2215-0605(+2)SYD x2

Still no sign of the revised QF93/94 timings to accommodate new QF9/10...

[Brad Myer]

So we are just waiting on the new QF93/94 times, and the new QF127/128 aircraft types.

Any ideas?

[Alex T]

According to some "rumours" floating around the net, QF127/128's A380 services will be replaced by A330's...

[Michael Cleary]

QF will lose out to Cathay if they downgrade to the 330 - that would mean no PE, which Cathay have, not to mention the drop in capacity.