Qantas' Impending Change to Tokyo Flight Schedule

[justinbrett]

Any known update on this? I'm hoping for some scheduling changes for some flights next year.

If there's changes (and that's not a guarantee), I'd expect them for the Northern Winter schedule which starts in late October.

 

[Himeno]

In April, they got an extension allowing them until the end of November to start using the slot. 15 more weeks. We should have heard something by now.

 

[justinbrett]

In April, they got an extension allowing them until the end of November to start using the slot. 15 more weeks. We should have heard something by now.

We're still very much in the slot negotiation period.

QF won't announce anything until it's confirmed.

 

[aaa99]

Slightly OTT.. Was going to fly HND-SYD-MEL the other and my SYD-MEL flight got cancelled. The online system provided me this scenic detour. I was tempted, but the flight to BNE was from NRT and I was almost at HND.
It was CR ticket, I probably wouldn't have earned any SC on FJ (as points club) for all that effort.

 

[markis10]

We're still very much in the slot negotiation period.

QF won't announce anything until it's confirmed.

Australia has been allocated one night and two day slots for some time now, there is wriggle room in the timings but not between night and day. I suspect Qantas is looking how their fleet is panning out with AY starting to settle down. From memory a380 heavy checks end early Nov, giving credence to the theory we may see A380s operating in/and from HND each night requiring a lengthy layover for the aircraft on the ground and a two ship rotation. We live in interesting times…..

 

[justinbrett]

Australia has been allocated one night and two day slots for some time now, there is wriggle room in the timings but not between night and day. I suspect Qantas is looking how their fleet is panning out with AY starting to settle down. From memory a380 heavy checks end early Nov, giving credence to the theory we may see A380s operating in/and from HND each night requiring a lengthy layover for the aircraft on the ground and a two ship rotation. We live in interesting times…..

I'm referring to the specific slot trading between airlines, not the regulator allocation of slots.

 

[evanb]

We're still very much in the slot negotiation period.

QF won't announce anything until it's confirmed.

IATA slot conference for NW25/26 was 9-11 June and return deadline was 15 July. We're well passed the key points for slots, so it's not a slot issue.

 

[Himeno]

Australia has been allocated one night and two day slots for some time now, there is wriggle room in the timings but not between night and day. I suspect Qantas is looking how their fleet is panning out with AY starting to settle down. From memory a380 heavy checks end early Nov, giving credence to the theory we may see A380s operating in/and from HND each night requiring a lengthy layover for the aircraft on the ground and a two ship rotation. We live in interesting times…..

Unless something has changed recently, HND won't allow an A380 to be parked on the ground all day. The airport will only allow 1 A380 on the ground at a time during the night slot period (due to congestion with domestic operations during the day period).
If QF want to use an A380 to HND, they would need to do something like arrive 2200, depart 0000 or arrive 0330, depart 0530. Both options present issues with ground transport, more so with the morning option.

 

[evanb]

Unless something has changed recently, HND won't allow an A380 to be parked on the ground all day. The airport will only allow 1 A380 on the ground at a time during the night slot period (due to congestion with domestic operations during the day period).
If QF want to use an A380 to HND, they would need to do something like arrive 2200, depart 0000 or arrive 0330, depart 0530. Both options present issues with ground transport, more so with the morning option.

Where do you get that from? The AIP only indicates when/where it can/can't be operated and even shows the taxi routes to off-stand long term parking for A380. I suspect some people confuse the note in the capacity declaration limits on long term parking for code F which only applied to unloading - this doesn't apply to parking though.

 

[markis10]

Where do you get that from? The AIP only indicates when/where it can/can't be operated and even shows the taxi routes to off-stand long term parking for A380.

Agree, specific limitations are outlined in the NS25 capacity statement which limits A380 ops to 2300-0600, only certain runways only with RNAV approval required.