MEL-DFW direct from December 2022

Lynda2475 said:
I never get to experience the lounge at LAX because im always connecting from JFK and there isnt time. Otherwize i fly home direct from DFW or SFO or HNL, because i find no pleasure spending time in LA, if im spending time in CA it will alwwys be in San Fran.
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I learnt my LAX lessons over 15 years ago. Main one was never to connect from East cost USA there at less than four hours. This meant abandoning the QF same day Qantas JFK flights.
 
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HS-TQE said:
Think it'll be a while before JFK resumes (if at all).

If QF does eventually resume JFK, the question is whether it'll be a tag from DFW or from LAX (ex-BNE).
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I don't think it would be from DFW, it would mean a complete re-jig of current timings, as you would need almost 8 hrs of schedule time and at least 4.5 hrs of turn-around time, so at least 12.5hrs between SYD/MEL-DFW and DFW-SYD/MEL flights (instead of 5 and 6.5 hrs at the moment). Also, unless you also launched somewhere else on the east coast (eg MIA), you would have an aircraft sitting on the ground idle for those 12.5 hrs as well.

At LAX - this (aircraft sitting around) issue is there, but there's a maintenance base in LAX for A380's anyway and they don't have the fit on other routes like the 787's. So if JFK was to resume, it would be, like it was before, a way of utilising the BNE 787 that might otherwise sit in LAX all day.
 
BD1959 said:
So the higher temperatures at DFW won't be an issue for the west-bound B787s that they occasionally posed for the B744s? Regards, BD
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Don't think so - obviously it's not a binary question, it's a how much (payload) question. If I recall it was the headwinds that caused most of the problems with the 747s.

PER can get pretty warm too...
 
justinbrett said:
Don't think so - obviously it's not a binary question, it's a how much (payload) question. If I recall it was the headwinds that caused most of the problems with the 747s.

PER can get pretty warm too...
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PER has usually cooled down to under 30C by the time the flight to LHR departs.
 
BD1959 said:
So the higher temperatures at DFW won't be an issue for the west-bound B787s that they occasionally posed for the B744s?
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A 787 is not a 744. That's just about the end of the story. You can't apply restrictions from one aircraft to another.
 
jb747 said:
A 787 is not a 744. That's just about the end of the story. You can't apply restrictions from one aircraft to another.
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Really? So a 787 isn't bigger than a 744 .... ???

Seriously, I realise that performance of different aircraft is not the same which is why is asked whether the summer temps would affect a 787 not implying they did because both are built by Boeing.

Pretty much the same way performance of a PA28 is different to a TOUR ... not just a matter of size ...

Regards,

BD
 
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