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Agreed. The potential decision on this is much further down the line than we might wish. While they're conceptually replacing the B737-800s, it's not clear as to whether only XLRs will replace them as the A220 order now exceeds the size of the underlying B717 fleet it was replacing. Order was...

Toppers are an easy fix but seat cushions are actually more complicated since it actually may require a new regulatory approval with EASA. Sounds absurd, but inability to get seats to pass regulatory safety tests has become a huge cause of delays with new aircraft and refurbishments.

Full schedule for anyone interested: https://www.analyticflying.com/p/qantas-finnair-a330-schedule-updates

Doubt they'll park them. Likelihood is that schedule hasn't been fully updated yet to reflect additional allocations (the latest SIN changes only just come online). One suggestion was that it's going to SYD-DPS but that would require commensurate changes elsewhere to remain within Indo seat caps.

It's seemingly evolved slightly with the two wet leases transitioning to dry leases as originally planned but two more wet leases for NW25-26 season. No indication if those additional two wet leases will remain beyond NW25-26 but probably too early to make judgements based on the NS26 forward...

Based on updated NW25-26 scheduled it now seems as though there will be four Finnair A330s, with two operated by Finnair under wetlease and two operated directly by Qantas. Furthermore, indications from Qantas are that Finnair have settled their crew issues and will operated both aircraft.

Well, if they do strike Qatar, it'll also likely include Saudi and UAE. But it'll also mean a huge chunk of unusable airspace and affect pretty much all reasonable options. QF will likely have to shift through Singapore and take northerly routing over Caspian Sea.

With the exception of China, East Asian hubs are massively disadvantaged by even more airspace closures (Russia & Ukraine). Even so, transiting through China has its disadvantages, as does the US.

There's a short vs medium term element to whether or not Qantas will reintroduce the temporary tech-stop in Singapore, and there's also some seasonality. Additional flight time of the more southerly routing over KSA adds a relatively small amount of time. They can maintain the non-stop by...

Oops, corrected. Shows me for replying late on a Friday night :p

Where everyone else gets them, the slot pool ... it's not LHR, there are slots available and slots do become available over time. They are scarce and you can't always get what you want when you want, but airlines apply and get.

Just a reminder that the XLR is coming from Hamburg, not Toulouse.

Singapore isn't hugely slot constrained, at least not anymore. While it does require coordination, especially around certain peak times and terminal/gate availability, slots certainly aren't their constraint. Also, 3K's slots aren't directly transferable and they'll just go back in the pool...

It operates under Airbus test registration until final payment is made and the delivery and acceptance receipt is signed. Only then does ownership transfer to Qantas and test reg sticker removed. Customer acceptance flights are inspection flights before this occurs.

Possibly, but Airbus Hamburg have four production lines and the QF A321XLR and NZ A321 are from different production lines. Also, the XLRs are still a relatively new subtype with several teething issues. The recent Wizzair XLR (first PW powered) had several more flights. That said, both Airbus...

I'd disagree with this assessment. The slots don't belong to Australia per se. Japan has agreed to allow Australian carriers access to three slot pairs at Haneda on the basis of reciprocity with Japanese carriers. However, Australian carriers must still apply for and maintain the specific slots...

Keep in mind that this is temporary. It's only scheduled through 10/8, coinciding with A380's 4x/week return to SYD-DFW from 11/8.

They could retime it but there's some big opportunity costs in that optimising a single A380 rotation for connections to/from QF1/2 requires two aircraft rather than one, burning utilisation. This is because an optimised arrival on MEL-SIN would be around 9-10pm and an optimal departure on...

Suspect there will be some launch events. Qantas would never give up a good PR opportunity. However, that's assuming the business class seat certification is settled soon. There's a chance that they could take delivery before and run a series of crew familiarisation and training flights until...

Delay in certification of the business class seat. Required some fixes from manufacturer to satisfy regulators.