End of an Era? QF ends A380 operations ex MEL 24 October 2026

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I see daily posts about social media checking.

That's fine you believe what you want. ,
again, the point is that at least a significant % of the circa 90,000/month who travel to the US who are not US citizens, also see a different USA

However I could never describe a country which has more guns than people as "welcoming".

Thats fine, no one saying you have to travel there.

My point remains that it is objectively false to say there is no demand for travel to USA from Australia or that the passengers on the transpacific route are only US citizens going home.

Circa 90,000 people outbound a month to USA says so.

 

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It appears that the demise of the A380 from QF93 is also comes with a retiming of QF93 from 0945 hrs to 2245hrs and an extension of QF10 PER-MEL

QF93 2245-- 1905
There is no retiming of QF94
However QF10 PER-MEL arrives in MEL at 2045
Perhaps the retiming of QF93 allows better utilisation of a 787-9 and gives PER customers an easy connection to LAX

However, the downside is the potential for a domino effect of delays in the QF10 sectors and connections ex QF93 would be very difficult