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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.

This might explain why: https://www.analyticflying.com/p/why-qantas-cant-just-switch-melbourne

Haha, yeah, not a great typo to make. Typing on a phone is an occupational hazard o_O

Not sure that's correct. Seasonal increases from January through March:

It's pretty credible, however important to seperate what Qantas would like versus what Finnair are interested in.

Well it's down to one right now? But no, conceptually, both 291 (SYD-SIN) and 295 (SYD-BKK) are in the schedule through end of NW25/26 (end of March 2026) at which point both aircraft are due to revert to a dry lease operated by QF. Even if the wet lease is reduced to one aircraft, word on the...

Finnair A330s operated by Qantas. First route scheduled SYD-HNL from 30 March 2026:

Kinda. They're pretty much replacing B737s but they'll still utilise widebodies for redundancy capacity.

Don't think I've ever heard of specific aircraft being utilised to position crew. They have no problem positioning NZ based crew to MEL without A330 flights. Suspect it's more about aircraft utilisation given that they try to keep the HGW A332's in BNE for the LAX flights. While they certainly...

It's part of the calculus, but not CGK routes since these are cargo heavy. CGK will remain A330 for the time being but will replace a lot of domestic and Tasman A330 flying.

Sure, but they can't go non-stop. That's the bet QF made on PER-LHR and it paid off, even more than they expected to the extent that they removed the MEL leg.

Agreed, QF had/have bigger challenges with the long haul EBA than they had/have with CASA.

That can be changed in time. That was also a barrier in Australia and has required changes but without any European carriers seeking it there's been no need to.

It's also based on 316t MTOW. QF's will be 322t. That's a substantial difference!

Probably a bit more, but how much do they need? It's a 236 seat aircraft - call that 24 tons with the assumption that they won't carry anything other than the lightest and highest priority cargo.

Ultimately Project Sunrise is low risk. When Thai and Singapore went into the ULH game with the A340-500s the aircraft were a sunk cost as they weren't going to be that useful elsewhere in the network given their incredibly high unit cost compared to other aircraft. Thai retired them after 7...

BNE-LAX and the associated BNE-AKL when the B787-9 takes over 3 of the 7 weekly services currently operated by the A332. The combined block times are nearly identical.