First Qantas A220 revealed

RSVKanga said:
Single? If you’d watched the various YT reviews uploaded today you’d find that Australia map on almost everything from signage to coasters to food to thank you cards and so on…
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OK, but it was just a single use on the photo that accompanied your comment. 😎. I wasn't watching the coasters 😊.

Having seen the additional images you’ve managed to collect 😳 I would hazard to say that the map with the other words next to it would be called a 'logo', or 'branding'. In which case I guess it’s just an artist's representation, sort of like the ampu-roo that adorns the Qantas fleet the days.
 
So my initial review of A220 on the first Brisbane to Melbourne.

QF629 which was meant to be a 737 flight got cancelled in the system when the A220 flights were announced and replaced by QF1255. Everyone on the 629 was moved to 1255 although they were offering fly forward yesterday so we ended leaving with a few seats empty.

There was no mention at the gate/onboard regarding it being the first A220 revenue departure from Brisbane and boarding ended up being about an hour late due to a catering bungle. The Brisbane ground staff seemed to think that the aircraft has been reverse catered from Melbourne but after everyone got off that ended up not being the case and as a result they rang the catering company who claimed they didn’t have any food for a QF1255 flight. They eventually discovered that the cater still had the old QF629 number in for this flights catering and eventually it was delivered but took time as they first loaded from the rear then moved the truck and loaded from the front. Meanwhile the road warriors some found out it was a brand new plane and even noted they weren’t sure how they felt about flying on a brand new plane. Boarding eventually got underway and priority line cleared first, the plane had that new car smell but a surprising amount of wear (crew jump seat which was white leather had scuff marks, over head bins had scuff marks and tray tables were dirty).

Eventually we got underway and the wifi wasn’t working, they reset this half an hour into the flight and it started working but no where near as stable as on the 737s (my VPN can hold a whole flight on a 737 normally but clearly beam changes are more noticeable or something else).

Meal was typical domestic economy drinks and a snack of cheese and crackers (I’m glad they waited an hour to load that…)

In seat power a shared AC socket in economy works well plus 60W usb-c (that does deliver about 60W - we tested that) plus a USB A (worth noting that all 737s at a minimum have USB A now). Now the A220 is certainly smaller than a 737 and yesterday there was a fair amount of bad weather on route, the turbulence is more noticeable on an A220 (I’ve been on many in Europe before).

In short if you’ve got the choice between a 737 and A220 on a mainline route I’d pick the 737 however if it was an A220 vs a E190 or 717 Id obviously pick the A220 any day.
 
henrus said:
So my initial review of A220 on the first Brisbane to Melbourne.

QF629 which was meant to be a 737 flight got cancelled in the system when the A220 flights were announced and replaced by QF1255. Everyone on the 629 was moved to 1255 although they were offering fly forward yesterday so we ended leaving with a few seats empty.

There was no mention at the gate/onboard regarding it being the first A220 revenue departure from Brisbane and boarding ended up being about an hour late due to a catering bungle. The Brisbane ground staff seemed to think that the aircraft has been reverse catered from Melbourne but after everyone got off that ended up not being the case and as a result they rang the catering company who claimed they didn’t have any food for a QF1255 flight. They eventually discovered that the cater still had the old QF629 number in for this flights catering and eventually it was delivered but took time as they first loaded from the rear then moved the truck and loaded from the front. Meanwhile the road warriors some found out it was a brand new plane and even noted they weren’t sure how they felt about flying on a brand new plane. Boarding eventually got underway and priority line cleared first, the plane had that new car smell but a surprising amount of wear (crew jump seat which was white leather had scuff marks, over head bins had scuff marks and tray tables were dirty).

Eventually we got underway and the wifi wasn’t working, they reset this half an hour into the flight and it started working but no where near as stable as on the 737s (my VPN can hold a whole flight on a 737 normally but clearly beam changes are more noticeable or something else).

Meal was typical domestic economy drinks and a snack of cheese and crackers (I’m glad they waited an hour to load that…)

In seat power a shared AC socket in economy works well plus 60W usb-c (that does deliver about 60W - we tested that) plus a USB A (worth noting that all 737s at a minimum have USB A now). Now the A220 is certainly smaller than a 737 and yesterday there was a fair amount of bad weather on route, the turbulence is more noticeable on an A220 (I’ve been on many in Europe before).

In short if you’ve got the choice between a 737 and A220 on a mainline route I’d pick the 737 however if it was an A220 vs a E190 or 717 Id obviously pick the A220 any day.
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So a standard QF experience then
 
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Anyone interested in another on-line review of the QFL A220 (the green one this time), this from Simply Flying

Flight Review: Flying Both Inaugural Qantas Airbus A220 Services

While the Airbus A220 experience is old-hat to most of the world, Australians are only today waking up to this new era of aviation, with aging Boeing 717s giving way to these new-generation Airbus jets on domestic and regional routes. ...
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Old hat to most of the world (I flew it in Egypt last year) but almost 500 posts before the first commercial flight taken, here!
 
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Anyone else reckon QF are deliberately excluding Sydney from A220 routes in the short term to offset some of that perceived “Sydney bias”?
 
Jayden Wong's video has a shot of the cabin divider as seen from Row 4. He also mentions that there's airbag seatbelts in row 4, unlike the 737 (although I could swear some QF 737s do have airbag seatbelts in row 4...)

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encryptededdy said:
(although I could swear some QF 737s do have airbag seatbelts in row 4...)
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Yep they definitely do - the majority but not all flights I've taken on the 738 in row 4 have featured the airbag seatbelts. These vlogs are doing a great job of highlighting the A220 experience though. Looking forward to my first flight on one in a couple of months.
 
henrus said:
So the A220 is less comfortable because of an air bag that is there for safety… hmm
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I havnt tried but going off that review which said the padding is less than the current 737 seat.
 

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