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Yeah they seemed to jack up the prices of Economy X late last year (or maybe earlier this year?) with many short domestic legs doubling in price and long haul Perth-East Coat legs even more, and obviously found out that the market isn't paying that, so back to the drawing board for them. They...

Certainly the EFW Facilities at Dresden are used by Lufthansa and Emirates for their A380s still? I guess a good a place as any for a gear overhaul and all the other heavy maintenence. Is the seating issue still a thing? I thought the issue was more of a parts thing with the A380 fleet.

Maybe but thats more of a Dash-8 or a Saab 340 thing where those aircraft really do have limited overhead bin space and easily accessible luggage compartments on the ground. The issue is more of a full B738 with older overhead bins problem, and especially since they have densified their B738...

A different issue to combined baggage allowance that comes from status vs baggage allowance inherent in the fare type, but I thought this the most relevant thread, as I received a recent survey from Virgin - they are obviously doing market research about fare types and baggage allowances and I...

I think LDH is the only runway limitation airport that can't currently handle a Dash 8-400? Then there will be the capacity issue if the market may not support the number of seats for larger aircraft. If the destination is too thin/small for a Q400 then Qantas will have to abandon the route or...

I think FIRB and/or the Federal Treasurer would rule out any more than 20% for any mainland Chinese ownership of VA. I would not be surprised if FIRB approvals or reviews are holding up things and causing delays. FIRB seem to take months to decide a routine office coffee order, let alone an...

Still using money to buy Qantas shares instead of investing in fleet capacity or growing the business. Reduced profit from freight, so all that conversion of passenger capacity to freight looks like it has been a waste of capital and lost opportunity for revenue. Will take Hudson years to fix...

Yeah thats a weird one because Rex are currently using the regional slots at SYD with their current Saab 340 operation so they are using it and cannot lose it. Maybe its more of a pro-active thing in suspending the use it or lose it clause in the expectation that the Administrators might fail to...

Plus the effective closure of Russian airspace to some airlines and the situations in Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon etc have reduced options for some airlines or made alternative routings uneconomic.

Yeah - same thoughts as you - seems a bit peculiar to be ordering brand spanking new E190s with their higher lease costs and then flying them on FIFO work in WA (plus some long thin routes within WA) even given a few clients might want the most efficient aircraft possible to meet Scope 3...

Pretty much the only way to fly on JQ 787s without paying for Starclass, that's the weird thing, because the passengers are mostly super cost-conscious they won't spend the money for extra legroom or exit rows. With 9 abreast Y class B787s in particular - having an empty seat next to you is a...

When I first heard about this earlier today I expected to hear that the flight was unauthorized, I bet the police will be looking for a stolen car used to breach the fence on the GA side of Cairns airport, the helicopter was a piston engine type and its possible that opportunistic thieves might...

Its paywalled so I will minimize large-scale copy and paste but there were three things that stood out to me in this article in The Australian's Business Review...

Absolutely - toxic mismanagement at the top of the company meant that any suggestions would have been ignored. My advice would have been do the opposite with PR and public announcements and make friends with local councils (and hence friends with Regional people), ignore their competitors, and...

Sorry but you don't get to unilaterally decide that all the "milk run" destinations in QLD don't exist just because the QLD Government contracts them, sad to say but these communities still do exist despite your assertions that they have somehow magically vanished from the face of the earth...

Approx 41 or 42 ports (excluding state capital cities) on the Rex regional network at the moment and I would say 22-25 of those ports have another competitor (mostly Qantaslink or Link/Sharp or someone else) I think you have summarized the logic in that the government will need to determine...

Exactly and the simple logistics is right now QF don't even have the aircraft to run their own schedule reliably and its not like Qantas have 20-30 spare Dash-8-200s or -300s sitting idle in the hanger waiting for Rex to fall over either. Qantas indicated they would be retiring their smaller...

Yeah - across 84 existing B737-800s and -700s (ignoring the new delivery B737-Max8s) that $1.3M per aircraft for 6 more Y seats on each aircraft adds up to an extra 504 Y seats in total. Hence, each one of those seats costs VA $218,253, now spread that across 5 sectors per day average, and say...

Just off topic but just had a chance to fly both versions of the VA B738 back to back yesterday (a 30 row aircraft with the typical purple divider and then a 31 row refurb without the purple business class divider but with new tablet holders and seatback usb) and while usb and holders are good...

Incredible that it has taken Covid and two sets of administrators over 4+ years and only on the second Rex administration that the management of Rex and Virgin have got over their own ego's and tried to co-operate now that Rex is at deaths door, and I assume the Fed Government had told them to...