Qantas cutting domestic capacity by 5%

[NamarrgonFlyer]

My Darwin to Singapore QF flight for June has been canned... Not sure if they're cancelling the whole route.

 

[Peasant]

I was looking at booking QF from MEL-CGK in May but it seems like the flights I was planning to book have disappeared.

 

[Melburnian1]

While many businessmen and women have to travel domestically, the NAB business survey has just recorded its lowest ever confidence rating (i.e. what business thinks of its prospects) since the 1989 survey inception.

I'm not suggesting every 'in person' meeting will be moved online via Microsoft Teams/Zoom and so on, but some more may be.

If they still exist, probably wise on high frequency routes like MEL-SYD-MEL to avoid booking on flights that leave at 15, 45 or other minutes past the hour that aren't '00' or '30' as the latter two always seem to fill quickest and hence are the most viable.

 

[antycbr]

While many businessmen and women have to travel domestically, the NAB business survey has just recorded its lowest ever confidence rating (i.e. what business thinks of its prospects) since the 1989 survey inception.

I'm not suggesting every 'in person' meeting will be moved online via Microsoft Teams/Zoom and so on, but some more may be.

If they still exist, probably wise on high frequency routes like MEL-SYD-MEL to avoid booking on flights that leave at 15, 45 or other minutes past the hour that aren't '00' or '30' as the latter two always seem to fill quickest and hence are the most viable.

Edict from Head Office is that only essential travel will be approved and two up approval will be required. While we are only a $120m company, multiply that by all mid size organisations and you’ll start to see some significant downturns. The travel budget has been cut to offset the increase in the fleet budget required.

 

[clifford]

I was looking at booking QF from MEL-CGK in May but it seems like the flights I was planning to book have disappeared.

My ticketed flight MEL-CGK in J is still showing as active.

 

[Saab34]

My employer (large asx) is pushing the less travel card. No Policy as such, just continued comments around waste and is the trip even worth it, these comments came from the CEO on a recent town hall. You would be surprised how much some companies spend by having certain people travelling around the place just to showcase their ego. I do can without those visits from these people to my office!

 

[jase05]

My ticketed flight MEL-CGK in J is still showing as active.

So are ours in May
I’ve just checked and it appears MEL-CGK has been cut to 3 per week. Only operating on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

 

[clifford]

You would be surprised how much some companies spend by having certain people travelling around the place just to showcase their ego.

So are ours in May
I’ve just checked and it appears MEL-CGK has been cut to 3 per week. Only operating on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

It just so happens that my flight is on a Friday. Lucky me? I do worry about getting back to Oz though.

 

[jase05]

It just so happens that my flight is on a Friday. Lucky me? I do worry about getting back to Oz though.

29th?
We still haven’t worked out how we are getting home yet. Changed plans several times

 

[LionKing]

My employer (large asx) is pushing the less travel card. No Policy as such, just continued comments around waste and is the trip even worth it, these comments came from the CEO on a recent town hall. You would be surprised how much some companies spend by having certain people travelling around the place just to showcase their ego. I do can without those visits from these people to my office!

I hope this is just a short term drop in demand and not causing permanent change in travel demand after COVID.
I would say corporate travel may reduce due to high fuel price now, and I have always been thinking for corporate travel/personal travel these days, you should avoid booking tickets until the last minute, and use reward tickets where applicable to reduce the cost of travelling.
This is particular prominent when Oil futures is indicating this could be over in months:

You can see by July school holidays, oil market would have an expectation that things will start to return to normal, and that I think if you are considering travelling this school holidays, you should wait until the fortnight of travel to book tickets which could reduce uncertainty and potentially you may get better fares than now.

It just so happens that my flight is on a Friday. Lucky me? I do worry about getting back to Oz though.

Most likely going to Australia via Sydney.

 

[clifford]

I hope this is just a short term drop in demand and not causing permanent change in travel demand after COVID.

I hope just the opposite.

 

[LionKing]

I hope just the opposite.

If the opposite does happen, I would be concerned about massive cuts in flights, and there will lead to massive job losses.
I think Qantas has already act on fuel price movements alreaedy by significantly cutting availability of reward tickets, and I think if we have the opposite, then our points will become useless again.

 

[clifford]

then our points will become useless again.

Our points are pretty useless aready.

 

[Melburnian1]

Perhaps QF believes the reductions in routes/frequencies will only be temporary, and presumably it needs staff (flight deck/cabin and others) to operate Project Sunrise, but it's a bit surprising it hasn't announced redundancies or incentives to retire/resign.

A five per cent cut to domestic flying is significant.

 

[Seat0B]

I have a few flights between SYD/MEL/ADL in May. No email or other notifications yet that they've been changed, fingers crossed these will mostly be advance notice cancellations and it won't be last minute consolidations close to departure date.

Yes agree on that. We have CBR-BNE (both direct and via SYD) and CBR- MEL in May and June and feel the same way.

 

[Seat0B]

I notice increased use of Dash 8 on the CBR - MEL route - was looking for May and on a Saturday all direct flights are using them - so no J seating at all. There are three jets scheduled back on the Sunday though..

This has been going on for quite a long time. We were forced onto a Dash-8 MEL CBR on a Saturday mid-November last year. Annoying as it was originally supposed to be an A220 when we booked. CBR gets a lot of Dash-8s already, so this is a sad new trend.

 

[justinbrett]

but it's a bit surprising it hasn't announced redundancies or incentives to retire/resign.

A five per cent cut to domestic flying is significant.

That would be a really a stupid thing to do.

Luckily it appears they learnt their lesson from covid. It takes years to get these things back.

 

[PERLHR]

This has been going on for quite a long time. We were forced onto a Dash-8 MEL CBR on a Saturday mid-November last year. Annoying as it was originally supposed to be an A220 when we booked. CBR gets a lot of Dash-8s already, so this is a sad new trend.

Nah.....gotta love a Dash 8..

 

[Seat0B]

Nah.....gotta love a Dash 8.. View attachment 503806

Depends how often you have to fly on one

And how often you get off a J international flight with 2 pieces of hand luggage containing things you do not want to check as premium hand luggage (eg laptops) and then have to negotiate the ridiculously small luggage lockers on your SYD-CBR connection. Did this just today connecting JNB-SYD QF 64 to SYD-CBR on QF 1455. It’s a right PITA when you’re jet lagged at the end of a trip.