Qantas' New A321XLR

[Saab34]

Great to see some new planes arriving. Meanwhile I think I'll be stuck on the Embraer highway CNS-BNE with no Wifi and regular IFE outages for a good while yet.

I recall this route was going A220, I remember reading the schedule update. Obviously got canned.

 

[Himeno]

Great to see some new planes arriving. Meanwhile I think I'll be stuck on the Embraer highway CNS-BNE with no Wifi and regular IFE outages for a good while yet.

At least you aren't stuck on the dash 8 highway.

 

[AuSammy]

Well there’s the problem. 5 hours from Sydney/Brisbane to Perth is a long time to hold it in (so to speak).

Thats specifically why I mentioned it. 5hrs I understand. Not the eastern seaboard.

 

[elanshin]

Shifted flights slightly, will be doing syd-mel runs over the next week in the 321. Also found a 787 one day so I'll take that.

 

[kookaburra75]

At least you aren't stuck on the dash 8 highway.

Being a fellow Canberran I was tossing up whether to use the 'Agree' or the 'Sad' emoji to respond to your post - I wanted to use both.

For a long-ish weekend in Hobart in mid December we had booked our flights, direct flights from Canberra to Hobart and back, on E190s. Two weeks ago we got an update that the times of our flights had changed, no issues, and they slipped in we would now be on Dash8s for flights both ways. Not much we can do about it

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Well there’s the problem. 5 hours from Sydney/Brisbane to Perth is a long time to hold it in (so to speak).

Well… except then you have five hours, not one. So presumably it’s not 90 pax trying to use the WC all at once, it might be 20 pax per hour. Still a little tight at 3 mins per pax.

 

[Aeryn]

Bit of a storm in a tea cup imo, most passengers do not use the loo on domestic flights.

 

[elanshin]

I find this amusing that the seat selection map shows 3 loos at the back.

 

[SYD]

I find this amusing that the seat selection map shows 3 loos at the back.
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Good chance of getting 35ABC to oneself. But potentially cough seats in the future…!

 

[jrfsp]

Bit of a storm in a tea cup imo, most passengers do not use the loo on domestic flights.

Sure most people just wait on anything under 2 hours but good luck doing that on a trans con after a few drinks in the lounge

 

[Daver6]

Part of the problem on a single aisle is for about an hour of the flight the toilets become unusable. From the start of meal service till the end once trays are cleared and carts out of the aisle. Once this happens you suddenly have built up need for the toilets.

Going to the bathroom is a basic human right. People shouldn't have to plan their bathroom usage around airlines not providing sufficient toilets and blocking access to them for extended periods of time.

 

[Aeryn]

Sure most people just wait on anything under 2 hours but good luck doing that on a trans con after a few drinks in the lounge

No luck involved I've flown SYD-PER and vice versa many times, never once used the onboard loo (never used on any domestic flight). I dont find the lounge or inflight beverages so appealing that I guzzle enough to be going to toilet more than usual.