Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

[evanb]

Putting another A380 out SYD sounds great to me. The business class seat on a QF A380 is so much more comfortable than the horrible no recline AY business class seat.

The AY seat is imo only suitable for short day flights, it is horrible if you want to sleep as the mattress topper doesn't attach, the seat belt retracts tight making it difficult to roll-over, the angle favours sleeping only on one side and it is very hard for anyone with knee or back issues to return to seated position with nothing to get purchase on whilst trying to crawl out of the foot well.

Keep in mind that this is temporary. It's only scheduled through 10/8, coinciding with A380's 4x/week return to SYD-DFW from 11/8.

 

[hutch]

Putting another A380 out SYD sounds great to me. The business class seat on a QF A380 is so much more comfortable than the horrible no recline AY business class seat.

The AY seat is imo only suitable for short day flights, it is horrible if you want to sleep as the mattress topper doesn't attach, the seat belt retracts tight making it difficult to roll-over, the angle favours sleeping only on one side and it is very hard for anyone with knee or back issues to return to seated position with nothing to get purchase on whilst trying to crawl out of the foot well.

Quite a spilt on the AY seat... I enjoy it. Have flown it several times.

But can't beat an A380 (except when they go tech).

 

[Katie]

Post from Analytic Flying on X, that the Finnair 332 being replaced with an A380 from mid-June.

Big change with Qantas's Sydney-Singapore flights due to ongoing Finnair industrial action:
QF291/292 (Finnair operated) cancelled through 10/8; 1x/week (Th) remaining for positioning
Replaced with 6x/week QF81/82; big news is it'll be A380 5x/week from 16/6!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1927267958641881110

And I'm on a Thursday QF291 in July. Oh well.

 

[aaa99]

Lots of first class availability on QF82 btw. Get in quick

 

[SYD]

Lots of first class availability on QF82 btw. Get in quick

They weren't there earlier...!

Pity I'm pretty much booked out for the rest of the year....