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No lounge access for any Jetstar NZ domestic flights.

There are new seats (in economy), new bathrooms (in economy) and IFE (BYOD). Sounds refurbished to me.

So all worked out OK. WestJet checked the bags through to Melbourne with no requirement to collect them in LAX. Hopefully they arrive on the same flight as my wife when she lands tomorrow morning :)

That's my understanding as well. The only (minor) issue is that the time between flights in LAX is around 10 hours. I've done more than this in the past between an AA and QF flight without any issues but WestJet are now saying that's the problem. Hopefully it turns out to be all easy but it's...

Hey All, My wife is travelling back to Australia from Toronto next week and has flights on a single Qantas ooking with Westjet (YYZ to LAX - although codeshare QF flight number) and then Qantas (LAX to MEL). She's concerned that she won't be able to check her bags all the way through to...

And now the 2nd is listed. Production number 641, assembled in Everett. ETA 1/12/17. You'd imagine that once the 2nd frame is delivered and introduced into the fleet then international services would begin. Likely just domestic flights when they only have one in service.

Qantas have announced a resumption of Sydney-Beijing flights using the A330-200. Given this flight is around 2 hours longer than the Sydney-Hawaii flights it seems to discredit the argument that Qantas isn't refurbishing the last 2 A332 aircraft due to J toilet and catering issues.

Would seem increasingly likely that HNL will go A330-300 or 787-9 once those deliveries begin next year. In the meantime they'll get the unrefurbished A330-200 which will likely be returned to the leasing company when the new aircraft are available.

The IFE does have the advantage of not exploding.

EBG/L may just be going in for standard maintenance, not refurbishment.

A -200 or 300 refurb? If a -200 then obviously it isn't an issue to have those aircraft operating that route.

Qantas' first 787 is now listed on the production schedule over at All Things 787: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FH3Y2-vRUgojntPkCSJI5Pd-15rsJ1a0SFCRaT-iqgo/pub?single=true&gid=19&output=html Production number 615 to be assembled in Everett with a (very tentative) ETA of the 27th...

I'm going to assume they are waiting on a part to arrive from Sydney. I guess that as long as they are aware of the problem (and fix) they can be reasonably confident about the resolution time. That said I've seen these kind of delays continually push out by a few hours at a time.

Waiting for QF93 MEL-LAX this morning. Delay has been announced in the lounge due to engineering issue. New ETD is midday (scheduled for 9:15am).

Re: QF Upgrade Success Rate Received the text at around T-27 for a successful upgrade Y -> Y+ for tomorrow's QF93 MEL-LAX. Loads are looking pretty light so was reasonably confident of getting it. Have put it for an upgrade to J on the return QF94 in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed that one...

Why would it be anything except a refurbished A330-200? Maybe a -300 during peak times.

Pretty much guaranteed. Assuming no other maintenance they should all be done by mid October at the latest.

VH-EBP hasn't flown since arriving from PER yesterday so may be straight in as a replacement for refurb. Means there are only the 2 Skybed 1 configurations that aren't refurbished or in the hanger.

Re: QF Upgrade Success Rate Which isn't an accurate measure, especially in economy where not everyone has access to select their seat without paying a fee.

I'm almost certain the Jetconnect fleet will get refurbished seats in Y, it makes sense from a product consistency point of view. The extra row is unlikely though. Of course Q Streaming would be possible. It's a local server and wifi network. However I don't have any problems with the...