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I have a suspicion that all 9 will go to Jetstar and 4 older A320s in Jetstar’s current fleet will go to Network. Same same just clever wording. Network only gets the old rust buckets, Jetstar Asia has a newer fleet, these incoming aircraft are much newer compared to anything Network has...

Certainly was a quick shutdown. Pity they couldn’t make it work, sadly after Tiger Singapore became Scoot and fleet size essentially tripled, they had no hope. Qantas playing in Singapore was no different to Singapore playing in Australia with Tiger. Stick to your knitting in your own backyard...

Would be at least a 2 weeks minimum I would have thought. If they need to send in a Boeing engineer then likely a month plus.

Bad timing to have one out of service as they just sent four away for heavy maintenance.

Found it. 13 A320Neo up to 2029. Do note they are from a ‘prior order’ from Airbus seperate to the other orders as noted in the presentation, I am fairly sure this is the order from 2011 that has been pushed out multiple times. I get the impression they didn’t really want the 320Neo but...

According to the investor presentation, that’s it for A320Neos for a while, nothing expected in FY26. It might appear that these 5 are also the only 5 that will come, I can’t see anymore detail about more coming. Only 5 321N due this FY, which is also the end of that allocation. Seems to be...

I note you can’t select seats on Virgin’s site, has this always been the case on these flights?

That’s definitely how it does it also, last few Jq flights I’ve notes most families are split up with one kid each. I assume it’s a tactic to also get people to purchase seat selection, and no doubt being in two’s not four’s helps plug some holes around those who have selected seats.

They should allocate seats if you skip that part. I’d be interested to see once you do that if it puts you together.

Never understood that. ‘Our Heart is in the country’ but we are running a full blown Melbourne to Sydney to Brisbane operation. Perhaps they should have stuck with the heart and just played in the country.

I think it could have worked, they just had the wrong people running it.

I see we are just about to tick over a year since the 737 operation collapsed. I hope everyone found new jobs and it somewhat worked out for all in the end. I wonder if we will see any new entrants in the coming years ahead.

I’ve seen worse. Dan Andrews gave cash at the other end of Covid to reinstate scheduled flights to International players. That is flights that would have resumed with or without handouts.

Might see more NSW expansion soon https://www.miragenews.com/nsw-take-off-fund-to-boost-aviation-visitor-1503065/

I wouldn’t mind that EY premium product for longer 6/7 hour flights. I did the JetBlue transcon and it was very private jet like. I get why QF don’t want to sacrifice floor space for what will initially be short haul ish flights, but I hope they do something like EY for medium haul, or DPS

Unlikely to go up against a QF 737 if they have a monopoly on some or the routes within the group.

I think Qatar essentially doubling capacity overnight will have an impact.

Does the engine shutdown procedure not somewhat bucket proof the chance of that happening? Ie the procedure somewhat confirms to yet crew which is the good and bad one?

A whole bunch left today for what appears to be heavy maintenance. Most seem like they are ready for a D check. Seems like they will be hanging onto VUE for many more years. IJQ, YIA, IXK in Singapore. VUE in KUL, with a AUH direct loaded for tomorrow.

If they can hold a stable schedule they might have a chance. Just not a fan if they start flip flopping schedules all over the place. Ideally daily into Melbourne and Sydney to have a chance, and 5 weekly into Brisbane and Perth. If they play their cards right they could be the third dominant...