CBR to PER - which flights have the seat back in flight entertainment?

[mannej]

I suppose they do try give priority to newer aircraft on the longer routes, e.g. CBR-PER, trans-tasman, SYD-DRW, SYD-NOU etc. as is mostly the case if you have a look, but every now and again it mustn't be possible due to scheduling problems, maintenance, aircraft substitutions etc. etc.

Isn't TT run by the ZK birds meaning 100% PIFE?

 

[Mattg]

Isn't TT run by the ZK birds meaning 100% PIFE?

Yes, but to clarify I'm also referring to routes operated by Qantas mainline, e.g. SYD-ZQN.

 

[fersea]

Wow, you must have been really unlucky.

I have calculated the probability of getting a non-AVOD bird on BOTH the outbound and return flights CBR-PER as 1.6% based on the past month of aircraft used.

i am thinking plane goes over Friday, comes back Sat, goes over Sun, comes back Mon, goes over Tues, comes back Wed therefore I got the same plane.

 

[mannej]

i am thinking plane goes over Friday, comes back Sat, goes over Sun, comes back Mon, goes over Tues, comes back Wed therefore I got the same plane.

You'd be incorrect assuming that - you had VZC yesterday.

Info found from here - http://theqantassource.com/qantastracker.html

 

[harvyk]

i am thinking plane goes over Friday, comes back Sat, goes over Sun, comes back Mon, goes over Tues, comes back Wed therefore I got the same plane.

I would highly doubt that it would be the same plane doing a CBR-PER and then the PER-CBR the next day... On arriving in PER the plane no doubt has either a flight to make afterwards (within an hour or 2) or at worst it'll overnight and be doing an early morning run out of PER...

Unless there is a really good reason for it (such as timezones don't allow, typically only a prob for long haul int) airlines hate having planes just sitting there...

 

[RickyT84]

I suppose they do try give priority to newer aircraft on the longer routes, e.g. CBR-PER, trans-tasman, SYD-DRW, SYD-NOU etc. as is mostly the case if you have a look, but every now and again it mustn't be possible due to scheduling problems, maintenance, aircraft substitutions etc. etc.

Whilst this is true for some longer flights such as those you mentioned above, flights such as SYD-CNS, ADL-PER (which are longer than 3 hours) are operated by the older fleet and conversely, some intra-WA flights (less than 2 hours) are operated by AVOD equipped aircrafts.

 

[QFflyermelbourne]

It's about all sorts of priorities too. When they relaunched flights to OOL last year EVERY flight was assigned a new bird with AVOD to ram home how much better their product was to Virgins. I fly through OOL a lot and think i've only had one flight in the last six months that wasn't a VX- series 73H, the oldest of them all so that policy has now changed obviously but it certainly kept the newer ones busy on stupidly short routes for several months.