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Cathay is the choice there I think. Better lounges at Hong Kong for status holders. On the OP's subject, would be great to see some more QF destinations in Europe. But realistically, the most I think we will ever see is Paris, Frankfurt and London.

Re: Qantas: non-stop Australia (Perth)-Europe (London) Boeing 787 flights set to soar Your impression is correct. Still not many flights for the time-being.

Seems pretty good. Can't go too wrong in J! Obviously QF and BA will add some dollars to the 'tax' portion, but what can you do.

When I was booking AY for March next year, BKK was still coming up A330. Might be different now. Good choice on HKG with great lounges and no need to go via Japan if you've already tried it out! When I did AA 777 it was JFK to LHR. But looking at forums suggest award seat availability on...

CX - Hong Kong, carrier operating single airport hub operation SQ - Singapore, carrier operating single airport hub operation EK - Dubai, carrier operating single airport hub operation EY - Abu Dhabi, carrier operating single airport hub operation QR - Doha, carrier operating single airport hub...

If looking for AY350, you might want to avoid BKK as last time I checked they were still using A330's on that route. HKG seemed pretty good for AY availability when I was booking... or if you are looking at trying products, you could try and get on JAL's 787 to HEL and then AY350 to LHR. Or...

Is this a 140Y or 280J award? I would have thought you might have issues with: 14.3.5 A Classic Flight Reward Itinerary must contain no more than one departure from the city or country of first departure on that Itinerary.

QF is 90 minutes shorter overall trip. PER stopover around 2 hours. SIN stop-over is 4hours (which is still fine). Main selling points for QF are daily flights and late night arrival into Canberra which I like for jet-lag. SQ of course has A380 for some LHR-SIN leg flights and it has better...

If I was flying QF, I'd happily fly this sector eastbound from London as it connects well onto CBR bound flights and I don't think 15hrs is that bad. Towards London I'd probably prefer going via DXB as 17hrs followed by a 5am arrival doesn't appeal to me. But if the CBR-PER flight was re-timed...

Yep - so fuel prices are low and airlines respond accordingly... they go up and they re-assess things. That's what a business should be doing.

Not too many flatbed regional products out there... particularly on the European end.

Noting that Singapore will soon be restarting non-stop Singapore - New York flights with the long-range A350. So clearly they see the benefit of long-range non-stop flights too.

Re: Melbourne the latest City to get shafted by Qantas Which is all very well and good. But the market has changed from what it was like 10 & 20 years ago and probably will again in the next ten years. If QF tried to maintain market share, for the sake of maintaining market share, they would...

Re: Melbourne the latest City to get shafted by Qantas If you are looking longer term, QF has openly stated their desire is to fly east coast Australia to Europe when they are able to get a plane to do that.

Re: MEL to EU is now 2 stop? Just tried a MEL-CDG booking. Both the BA option via LHR and the EK option via DXB are available. Noting that Emirates own website is only showing availability up to 24 March at the moment...so anything beyond that on QF.com is not likely to be the complete picture

Not a like for like scenario. Air Asia X is based in KL. Hence they could hub between Europe and Australia via KL. Scoot will do the same thing with their Athens flights. If Norwegian want to fly Europe to Australia via Singapore, they would have the added costs of Singapore stop and the...

Re: QF PER LHR still not for sale Not sure what difference that makes. 25% fewer pax per slot doesn't necessarily mean 25% less revenue. There would be no point flying an A380 to ensure 25% extra capacity if you can obtain a better yield flying a 787 non-stop from PER. QF may fly this route...

They are still using the same number of slots.

Re: QF PER LHR still not for sale Yield. What destination in mainland Europe could Qantas extract sufficient yield over using the planes on a slot constrained HKG? Additionally the fleet utilization would be poor... assuming you want to go MEL-DXB-mainland Europe and meet up with QF1/2 in DXB...

Melbourne is on track for a greater population, but that is only part of the picture. Economically, SYD appears to provide better yields (i think EY's move this week confirms that). I originally thought QF might keep the MEL-DXB leg, but apparently QF believes it can make more more flying it to...