Mainline working Trans Tasman

[puppysparkes]

Interesting!

In the meantime, I'm sure the "surplus" Jetconnect crew aren't sitting around twiddling their thumbs. There were actually a few Jetconnect FAs on my QF flight last week from SCL to SYD. I hear they're also being used on a few other long-haul routes.

Approximately 900 crew out of AKL. They regularly do AKL-BNE-LAX. Approximately 50 crew from WLG from memory.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

There is an QF Airbus 330 working SYD - AKL on the 24/12, which I am tempted to book into a J seat on, ((but also, the LA Boeing 787 that I have not tried crossing the Tasman, that I am also tempted to book into a J seat on-grimy blurry windows on the LA 787 aside)).
A lot of choice during that busy time of the year.

 

[medhead]

In fact, most if not all JetConnect Longhaul crew are triple-rated on A380, B744 and B738. Not all of their patterns involve paxing between NZ and Australia, indeed sometimes they work one or both ways between NZ and Australia before/after a longhaul trip.

Thanks. My memory isn't that bad after all.

Pretty much the upshot of a conversation I had on my last trans tasman flight. The crew member had crewed LAX-SYD. Memory is not the best but I think they were actually normally long-haul crew who used to get a free trip to AKL-SYD, but Qantas had now decided to make them work. But my memory could be messing with me.