More flights for DRW from QF Group

[markis10]

Qf announced MEL-DRW citiflyer yesterday - from May next year three services a week.

About Qantas - Media Room - Media Releases - Qantas Launches Melbourne-Darwin Services

Tuesday/Sat and sunday with a fourth added from June through to Oct.

JQ have announced increased ADl/MEL & BNE services

$100m airport upgrade and 70 more flights | Northern Territory News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au

 

[oz_mark]

Here 'tis the schedule.

QF MEL-DRW Flights
QF838 Dep MEL 0830 Arr DRW 1220 (Sun, Tues, Sat)
QF839 Dep DRW 1305 Arr MEL 1805 (Sun, Tues, Sat)

 

[pauly7]

This will make alot of AFF members happy. Been quite a few complaints about lack of QF metal on Mel-drw

 

[markis10]

This will make alot of AFF members happy. Been quite a few complaints about lack of QF metal on Mel-drw

I am sure the QF club and gate agents will appreciate another aircraft at the gate around the middle of the day . I wonder if the ADL service will drop capacity to a 737 now for those days, there seems to be a lot of MEL bound traffic on that flight for obvious reasons.

Pity they did not schedule a service later in the day, as I have posted elsewhere the late afternoon DJ MEL flight is well timed for business.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I am sure the QF club and gate agents will appreciate another aircraft at the gate around the middle of the day . I wonder if the ADL service will drop capacity to a 737 now for those days, there seems to be a lot of MEL bound traffic on that flight for obvious reasons.

Pity they did not schedule a service later in the day, as I have posted elsewhere the late afternoon DJ MEL flight is well timed for business.

Don't know whether they would be considering any Taswegian traffic & if the arrival in MEL would connect with any flights to the Apple Isle or other regional ports like ABX maybe.

With the non-stop DRW/CBR/DRW fights operating on Mon/Wed/Fri there's no clash with MEL nonstops at this stage unless the CBR frequency increases.

In any case if you get to the QP at opening time (1000hrs Oct-Mar) you should be able to get a seat otherwise it'll be like a Collingwood Carlton final!

 

[drron]

Don't know whether they would be considering any Taswegian traffic & if the arrival in MEL would connect with any flights to the Apple Isle or other regional ports like ABX maybe.

With the non-stop DRW/CBR/DRW fights operating on Mon/Wed/Fri there's no clash with MEL nonstops at this stage unless the CBR frequency increases.

In any case if you get to the QP at opening time (1000hrs Oct-Mar) you should be able to get a seat otherwise it'll be like a Collingwood Carlton final!

But if you rush for a seat as the QP opens you miss the first helping of food-and we were amongst the first 10 in.

 

[markis10]

But if you rush for a seat as the QP opens you miss the first helping of food-and we were amongst the first 10 in.

Importantly, you do then have a long wait for the drinks.....

 

[k_sheep]

Importantly, you do then have a long wait for the drinks.....

The horror!

 

[jsd]

Sigh

All of the capital cities are now branded as CityFlyer routes with capacity to suit, hopefully the one lonely non-cityflyer capital is next in line



Josh

Scrap that: DRW was already a CityFlyer capital, but now it ticks all the destinations on that chart that QF have

 

[markis10]

JQ announced flights to Manilla, I wonder if that is a precursor to pulling the QF flight, it does free up an A330.......

 

[oz_mark]

JQ announced flights to Manilla, I wonder if that is a precursor to pulling the QF flight, it does free up an A330.......

It's only just gone to an A330.

 

[pauly7]

JQ announced flights to Manilla, I wonder if that is a precursor to pulling the QF flight, it does free up an A330.......

Yea I don't think so actually.

There is a stack of corporate (miners etc) and government travel on that route and they only recently increased capacity...

I know a certain miners board kept complaining to QF about no skybeds on that route not sure how much sway it had though... Clearly the route is doing ok though.

 

[markis10]

Yea I don't think so actually.

There is a stack of corporate (miners etc) and government travel on that route and they only recently increased capacity...

I know a certain miners board kept complaining to QF about no skybeds on that route not sure how much sway it had though... Clearly the route is doing ok though.

We will see, I suspect QF may be wanting to shore up PER business with all widebodies when DJ come online with theirs, in that case I expect MNL will go JQ (note the timing of the intro) . At the moment they are trading on thin ground with the A330 fleet, the unexpected availability of VH-QPI saw ERs heading to Perth for a week!

 

[pauly7]

We will see, I suspect QF may be wanting to shore up PER business with all widebodies when DJ come online with theirs, in that case I expect MNL will go JQ (note the timing of the intro) . At the moment they are trading on thin ground with the A330 fleet, the unexpected availability of VH-QPI saw ERs heading to Perth for a week!

Yes but how far off are DJ from offering even a majority widebodies on transcontinental do we think...?

QF have a new next gen domestic A330 scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks - then the last 'rogue' A330 with no AVOD will be shipped off to Jetstar.

Then QF have another A330 coming in Feb I believe so that should help.