Qantas Moves Capacity to Europe July 2026

[jakeseven7]

FCO will be daily, non stop to/from PER

Wow!!!

 

[justinbrett]

The new title of this thread is actually incorrect - the capacity is coming from domestic. BNE/LAX is being swapped from a 787 to A330 which is actually an increase in number of seats.

 

[moa999]

Aren't the 332 slightly lower capacity than the 789s?
Plus you've got reductions to other American routes like YVR, SCL and DFW.

 

[Mattg]

The new title of this thread is actually incorrect - the capacity is coming from domestic. BNE/LAX is being swapped from a 787 to A330 which is actually an increase in number of seats.

Qantas sells two fewer seats on the A330-200s flying BNE-LAX, vs the 789 (234 vs 236 seats) since they have to block all those economy seats to create crew rest.

https://www.qantas.com/dynamic-assets/assets/urn:aaid:aem:73961581-43e5-4541-b61d-548c4f38ecde/original/as/a330-200-seat-map-config-3.pdf

 

[jakob]

FCO will be daily, non stop to/from PER
CDG will be 5x weekly (SYD-SIN-CDG)
LHR no change (via SIN outbound)
PER-SIN will be 10x weekly, timed to connect to CDG

Do we know when these will be bookable? I'm not seeing the daily PER-FCO yet when looking for flights on Qantas or EF... unless I'm missing it?

 

[Aeryn]

They are probably busy rebooking pax who were originally booked on QF flight numbers on EK or QR metal first before opening up remaining capacity.

 

[mbe1510]

Do we know when these will be bookable? I'm not seeing the daily PER-FCO yet when looking for flights on Qantas or EF... unless I'm missing it?

Just had a look on Google Flights and the SYD-PER-FCO flights do show, but perhaps the talk of daily flights is a bit of Qantas PR spin.
Appears that SYD-PER-FCO will only run daily from the end of June to start of August so about 5 weeks.

The seasonal service is starting much earlier than previous years - start of May and begins flying six times a week from late May. From end of July it is back to four times a week at this stage.

 

[jakob]

Just had a look on Google Flights and the SYD-PER-FCO flights do show, but perhaps the talk of daily flights is a bit of Qantas PR spin.
Appears that SYD-PER-FCO will only run daily from the end of June to start of August so about 5 weeks.

The seasonal service is starting much earlier than previous years - start of May and begins flying six times a week from late May. From end of July it is back to four times a week at this stage.

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Thanks for finding that.... disappointing though!