Melbourne to London via SIN?

[Doddler]

Thank you! That's a far more eloquent way of putting it and basically what I was trying to get at with my previous post.

I think your post raised a relevant point - connecting flights from other Australian cities/towns.

As for the following post by Human, yes, clearly Qantas has had reasons for what it's done so far.
But:
"I find it difficult to believe that Qantas would put a smaller aircraft on a route out of MEL if the demand existed for a larger one."
They didn't have much choice. With limited landing slots in SIN, and LHR they are stuck between A330s or a 2nd A380. Two A380s to SIN-LHR is clearly too much capacity and would be economically unviable. The question is how the maths change when the A350 service with 98 premium seats commences from Sydney.

144 premium seats on the A380, 98 on the A350, 49 on the A330.
So what makes more sense?
Sydney 144+98 = 242 and Melbourne 49
or
Sydney 98+49 = 147 and Melbourne 144

As I said, we'll see what happens.

 

[offshore171]

For whatever reason -- and I would guess that it's a complex set of reasons including demographics, competition, presence of high-paying corporate customers, etc -- the demand for international Qantas flights out of SYD is quite evidently greater than the demand for international Qantas flights out of MEL.

The other factor is the traffic from the opposite direction, ie: the poms, and other Europeans visiting AU from LHR.

The most popular port of entry would be SYD, particularly for tourists and business travellers.

 

[Doddler]

The other factor is the traffic from the opposite direction, ie: the poms, and other Europeans visiting AU from LHR.

The most popular port of entry would be SYD, particularly for tourists and business travellers.

Good point. I think you're right for tourists. Not sure about business travellers though - Imagine they would want to fly to wherever their meeting is taking place. Melbourne and Sydney probably similar in that regard.