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I wonder how much VA paid for Skywest only to shut most of it down :(

The airlines get slots from the airports and on the day prior, if the weather forecast is for strong winds, air traffic control instructs airlines to cancel a percentage of their flights (no ifs, no buts, you cancel flights and consolidate passengers on your remaining flights). If you don't...

It sounds like the flight was only overbooked because the winds at Sydney necessitated using a single runway therefore reduced capacity therefore cancelled flights. Sorry JohnK but I don't like to hear that you decided to get angry for 2-3 minutes and directed your anger at the person who didn't...

Hevilift picked up BNE-MOV with one or two of the VA ATRs so it can be made to work, but I wonder what Hevilift are paying for the ATRs (if they're effectively taking them off VA's hands) vs. what VA are paying to the lessor.

Hence my comment that if VA park the 330s now, they'll be paying leases on what could constitute an airline's entire fleet in stored aircraft. It might be cheaper than flying them and making losses but good golly gosh I think it's an indication of a total fleet planning failure.

Well I was posting tongue-in-cheek but if you want to take it seriously then yes, a new operator would need a new AOC along with various other things. And VA are still paying leases on their stored E90s and ATRs so what's stopping them doing the same with the 330s?

If VA mothballed their 332s, they'd be a great business opportunity to start a new Australian airline using all the VA leased-and-parked fleet. 332s, E90s and ATRs sounds like an excellent mix for a new airline plus they're all already Australian registered! The business could even replace QQ as...

The reborn de Havilland could also perhaps produce an updated Dash 8 200/300 like they did with the Twin Otter.

Delivered to Jetstar in 2008 but the first two airframes are ~20 years old and I think they've had hard lives with at least one having had a tail strike.

There's still capacity in the existing system so I doubt we'll see any effect. The article did give me a good laugh, though: "However the move was resisted by civil aviation controllers who were lined up for redundancies as two disparate systems supposedly became one." No part of that...

I'd rather take a day flight in Y than an overnight flight in J. No exceptions.

Although the ICAO code is B38M/B39M and the IATA code is 7M8/7M9. So while MAX isn't in the owner's manual, it's in other places and not just the marketing material.

It's in line with IAG, which only talked about the 737-8 and 737-10 and didn't use the word MAX.

The Dash 8 was sold to Viking, who already own all the other prop type certificates of Bombardier. https://www.bcbusiness.ca/Viking-Airs-newly-acquired-Dash-8-is-ready-for-takeoff

It wasn't just QF. VA2 diverted to BNE (mentioned above), as did CX111 and AC33.

The BNE schedule really doesn't work for a full Monday to Friday week on the US east coast. Your choice is to arrive on Saturday or 9 am Monday, and then you must hang around until Sunday to leave. On QF I could leave BNE on Sunday and arrive back Monday week but on VA I have to leave BNE on...

Buy an airline, scrap its old planes, buy it new planes, park the new planes, pay another airline partly owned by your major competitor to fly for you or just stop serving the routes altogether

I did get a good chuckle when I saw that the Plaza Premium Lounge is listed for Brisbane international again. No mention of food vouchers for SGs or 'new lounge opening late 2018' any more.

Long gone. And the eggs are too far scrambled now - it's going to be an expensive and messy omelette. What will be interesting is now TT only have new A320s left on long term lease, what will they do with them when/if the next VA 737s arrive? You really shouldn't send an expensive, leased, 180...

It'll be the international flights that see the longest taxi times because the train line and roads are blocking a direct taxi route to/from the international terminal. Expected to be in the order of 20 minutes or so.