QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[Greg Hyde]

Just read, don't know how reliable

The first B717 is retiring in March and 8 will be gone by the time the first A220 enters commercial service in November, from then on it’s roughly 1 B717 out each month. The remaining B717s will be gone by September 2024, they are planned to be retired in order of which ones are due for heavy maintenance but subject to change. In Sept 2024, 9 x A220s are planned to be in service.

E190s, Qantas and dash 8s will cover more flying, in fact the B717 stops flying to BNE completely from August and has a drastically reduced schedule to HBA from June.
Utilisation is low due to a lack of tech crew (especially in SYD). All 29 ordered A220s are to be operated by Qantas subsidiary National Jet Systems, assuming they can crew them (NJS tech crew will shortly become the lowest paid jet airline pilots in MEL, SYD and BNE, along with the majority of their cabin crew who are the lowest paid cabin crew in Australian aviation).