Qantas upgrades HKG services over CNY and adds Jan 30/31 extras

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Qantas has published a series of improvements to its Hong Kong services over the Chinese New Year period, including daily A380 services and a number of supplementary services.

Effective for services between 7 January – 26 February 2014 inclusive, QF127/QF128 (Sydney-Hong Kong) will be upgraded on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from a B747 aircraft to an A380 aircraft.

This results in a daily A380 service during this period, and follows Qantas’ recent announcement that it would upgrade one return Sydney-Hong Kong service to an Airbus A380 aircraft from 4 November, increasing the number of A380 return services on this route from four to five per week. As well as adding almost five per cent more seats per week on this route, the aircraft swap will increase the amount of flying done by Qantas’ flagship A380 fleet into Asia.

In response to strong demand over the holiday season, Qantas has published supplementary Sydney-Hong Kong services on 30 and 31 January 2014.

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All flights are subject to last minute schedule and aircraft changes.
 
Why schedule the second flight so closely to the existing ones? Why not an evening departure from SYD again and a morning or midday one from HKG?
 
Isochronous said:
Why schedule the second flight so closely to the existing ones? Why not an evening departure from SYD again and a morning or midday one from HKG?
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So it's not too successful or they'd have to continue it.

seriously, aircraft availability and/or landing slot availability would be my guess.
 
docjames said:
So it's not too successful or they'd have to continue it.

seriously, aircraft availability and/or landing slot availability would be my guess.
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What happened to the slots they used for QF88/89 when it existed as the overnight flight from SYD and day departure from HKG on the return?
 
Isochronous said:
Why schedule the second flight so closely to the existing ones? Why not an evening departure from SYD again and a morning or midday one from HKG?
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aside from maybe a/c availabilty/scheduling/slots ...whatever..as its really just an 'extra' flight to cope with forecast extra demand... it can be looked at as an 'overflow' flight for the existing flight..so if people are looking to book the original flight/time and its unavailable..then they can see theres another flight close to the original...just a thought :idea:
 
under the radar said:
aside from maybe a/c availabilty/scheduling/slots ...whatever..as its really just an 'extra' flight to cope with forecast extra demand... it can be looked at as an 'overflow' flight for the existing flight..so if people are looking to book the original flight/time and its unavailable..then they can see theres another flight close to the original...just a thought :idea:
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exactly, it's not a new flight for schedule convenience
 
QF -> HKG on QF A380 then HKG -> LHR on BA A380 would be nicer than EK. Especially in Economy. Shame about the BA earning and loss of code share.
 
QPProletarian said:
QF -> HKG on QF A380 then HKG -> LHR on BA A380 would be nicer than EK. Especially in Economy. Shame about the BA earning and loss of code share.
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Didn't QF want to continue codesharing with BA on HKG-LHR but BA terminated it in a fit of pique?
 
samh004 said:
Would they have been allowed to had they wanted to though? I thought it was one or the other.
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As I remember it they wanted to keep the codeshares but it was BA who unilaterally terminated them.

Even if the point of these flights is not schedule convenience - why not? If demand is that high perfect to see if you can make second services stick. It was less than a year ago that SYD was double daily!
 
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Isochronous said:
What happened to the slots they used for QF88/89 when it existed as the overnight flight from SYD and day departure from HKG on the return?
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I took QF87 to HKG last year - it was scheduled to land in HKG around 5am, but it was "early" and landed around 4am. A useless time to land in HKG as the Airport Express doesn't start running until 5am. Thanks to the curfew at SYD it's difficult to schedule an overnight 9 hour flight.

Isochronous said:
As I remember it they wanted to keep the codeshares but it was BA who unilaterally terminated them.
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Funny that BA will still codeshare on QF metal from MEL/BNE, but won't let QF codeshare on BA metal from SIN/BKK/HKG.
 
An overnight from MEL would work. Every time I've done a flight to PEK (eg from PVG or HKG) and landed in the evening, I always notice a lot of Australians at immigration and invariably they have CX boarding passes from MEL. The demand is there.
 
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