Melburnian1
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One assumes that because it's the end of school holidays in some States (and we've had a week with Easter followed by ANZAC Day), QF is double heading between SYD and MNL today with the usual QF19 departing at 1210 followed by a special QF59 at 1310. Coming back the two are timetabled only 40 minutes apart.
The extra flight may be an A332 in domestic configuration. Nonetheless this double heading is quite unusual for QF internationally nowadays.
This gives about 600 seats, which is larger than a solo B744 if QF had one available, but it is expensive to operate two separate flights particularly since the crew for the special return QF60 tonight would have had to presumably deadhead from SYD to MNL on Friday 25 April, while the crew from today's QF59 may be in MNL until Monday night 28 April 2014 when the next QF20 is scheduled to bring them back. Am I correct that a single flight and cabin crew could not work SYD - MNL - SYD (involving a roughly 1200 sign on and perhaps an 0800 or so sign off the next morning) because for both employee types it would contravene maximum acceptable duty hours?
Notably, SYD - MNL was not identified recently by QF as one on which frequencies would be cut, or one that would be abandoned. I do not know the yields for each flight, but this is a sign that it's one of the better performing non-A380 or non-744 QFi routes.
The extra flight may be an A332 in domestic configuration. Nonetheless this double heading is quite unusual for QF internationally nowadays.
This gives about 600 seats, which is larger than a solo B744 if QF had one available, but it is expensive to operate two separate flights particularly since the crew for the special return QF60 tonight would have had to presumably deadhead from SYD to MNL on Friday 25 April, while the crew from today's QF59 may be in MNL until Monday night 28 April 2014 when the next QF20 is scheduled to bring them back. Am I correct that a single flight and cabin crew could not work SYD - MNL - SYD (involving a roughly 1200 sign on and perhaps an 0800 or so sign off the next morning) because for both employee types it would contravene maximum acceptable duty hours?
Notably, SYD - MNL was not identified recently by QF as one on which frequencies would be cut, or one that would be abandoned. I do not know the yields for each flight, but this is a sign that it's one of the better performing non-A380 or non-744 QFi routes.