Melbourne to London via SIN?

[Rangalad]

No, it was QF9 via Dubai. Leaving Melbourne at midnight meant I could fly down to Melbourne and get a days work done, before arriving into Dubai at 6am, and then on to Heathrow at 2pm. I could do that run and function at the other end. Even going via Singapore would-be ok, with a mid afternoon arrival. Getting in at 6am is the pits.

The route has an interesting past.

QF007 SYD/MEL/PER/BOM/LHR 747-200
QF009 SYD/MEL/BOM/LHR 747-300
QF031 SYD/MEL/SIN/LHR 747-400
QF029 SYD/MEL/HKG/LHR 747-400
QF009 MEL/DXB/LHR A380

 

[offshore171]

It’s a bit of a shocker that passengers from Australia’s biggest city would be forced to go via Perth or Sydney, and Qantas will have vacant slots in LHR and SIN.

Only if you limit yourself to Qantas though.

Singapore airlines is the obvious alternative if you’re set on Singapore routing, but there’s plenty of similar 1stoppers eg: Cathay, Thai, Malaysian, Emirates etc.

 

[CaptJCool]

In looking at the BITRE May 25 figures

QF/JQ fly 56% of PAX over the Tasman

USA & Japan, the UK Possibly that look higher than that

QF/JQ clean up on Indonesia (QF itself barely 20,000 JQ 88,000

They do have their head ahead on South Africa and Phillipines

THEY fly 0% direct to China and Vietnam and Malaysia

SQ/Scoot QR Thai EK CX all push QF/JQ

International Airline Activity—Monthly Publications

These reports cover monthly international aircraft, passenger, freight and mail movements, flights, available seats, seat load factors and airline market shares. Details are provided for airline, country, city pair and airport.

www.bitre.gov.au

The Paris figures look LOW and the Points Planes are a good gimmick to fill empty seats especially if the SLOW FF earners take up the offer