Sad Panda face.
QFi still doesn't serve nearly enough routes on it's own metal, my wishlist would be -
* San Francisco
* Las Vegas (surely there is enough traffic from Sydney/Melbourne for this?)
* Mumbai
* Buenos Aires
* Kuala Lumpur (changing at SIN for a ****ty JQ flight sucks and is a massive time-waste)
* Anywhere is Europe that isn't London - yes I'll even settle for Frankfurt again.
Whilst I would like to see more QF routes on their own metal I'm not too sure how realistic it is:
* San Francisco - I would like to see QF return here, but sense they'll need a 787 for this. No much feed at SFO for them so it will need to be O&D.
* Las Vegas - Possible...but how many of those would be J passengers? And would this just take service from LAX services?
* Mumbai - don't know enough about how their previous services were.
* Buenos Aires - No chance. The move to SCL has paid off. No feed at EZE. They would be better off increasing SCL service or finding another LATAM hub.
* Kuala Lumpur - I always though KL would make a good SE-Asia hub for them. But they had they're fallen out with Malaysian who would have been a good partner to distribute QF passengers across SE-Asia... Anyway, perhaps now is not the right time approach Malaysian again.
* Frankfurt - Can't see QF returning to mainland Europe again. Hopefully the do... With the middle eastern airlines will continue increasing their offering it will be hard and expensive... is the money better spent on single flight destinations?
- I'll settle for some:
- YVR year round services
- Increased DFW service (BNE?)
- PEK?
- And when a plane can make it... ORD
- Something into Brazil one day.
On Asian services, QF used to do QF19/20 via BNE once a week. That stopped prior to BNE runway works and has never resumed? Has it be canned?