QF SYD-MEL down to 1 flight/day - via CBR on a Dash 8

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While this is true in a lot of businesses, there are just as many (like mine) where I can't see it being the case long term. We're a consultancy and whilst it's all nice and fuzzy to be conferencing with our cutomers right now chatting and doing planning and documenting things, they're paying that daily rate for us to do stuff and we all know this is a holding pattern where our revenue is down to a quarter of usual bookings and we're just "surviving" in the new world for now.

I don't see mine and a bunch of other base load customers disappearing anytime soon. Yes we'll need to pay more to get a seat going forward but we were never paying that cost in the first place. There's a lot of stuff on hold right now waiting for the world to resume spinning.
 
I wonder

The Aussie cricket team used to have a captain and Team Manager, and now... a cast of hundreds, footy teams the same.

A more targeted spend or cutting costs would see a permanent prune on BAU although I do think the resumption of essential manufacturing in Australia will see a new industry of consultancy.... often BAU consulting became way too expansive and over-thought And was a cop-out by decision-makers who didn’t want to make adverse choices....

There’s definitely a role in new initiatives and supporting business growth, training and mentorship
 
I wonder

The Aussie cricket team used to have a captain and Team Manager, and now... a cast of hundreds, footy teams the same.

Personally, I hope we as a society reconsider the value we've been putting towards people who, essentially chase balls.. compared to those who actually are essential.
 
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Looks like that solo QF indirect flight tomorrow is sold out now. And the Jetstar flights between SYD and MEL have disappeared next week.

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Looks like that solo QF indirect flight tomorrow is sold out now. And the Jetstar flights between SYD and MEL have disappeared next week.

cheers skip

I'm still seeing seats available for sale on QF1467 tomorrow.
 
Still now? I saw no seats an hour ago, one seat appeared for a while, now EF is saying nothing again
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My guess is that Qantas wasn't expecting Virgin to suspend virtually all flights - so they are taking time to reassess frequencies and routes now they don't have any competition.

Just because they've taken flights away from sale doesn't mean the flight is cancelled (yet). At this point they're just keeping their options open.

It's a bit pointless running the international flights for the government (eg LAX-BNE) if they are then stuck in BNE because there's no domestic flights!
 
As an essential worker - there needs to be some level of flights available and it would completely stuff everything up should Qantas follow Virgin to near zero flights.

I'm one of the many essential FIFO workers (medical specialist), and with the effective shut down, pretty much every country hospital and even city ones that rely on FIFO like Canberra are now unable to provide the essential services that still need to operate.

I'm still turning up by driving as it's just within reach that I can manage with a 6h return drive, but it is abundantly clear that the absence of a minimum service obligation is causing havoc to health services across the country, let alone many others.

QF and VA charged free market prices and did very well out of these routes when times were good. I would hope that in return for proposed Government assistance, a discussion about a reciprocal service obligation or equity in the airlines is on the agenda.
 
I mostly agree with [U]justinbrett[/U] about economic lunacy. I suspect the one flight thing is for the benefit of politicians and media spokespersons. Looking at facts, 25% of those in isolation did not comply, plus the arts minister.. those rules only apply to the little people. Today some south cost towns are refusing to serve out-of-towners making use of vacant holiday properties, while Qld is talking of establishing a FNQ internal border.

Then we have WA who harvested the benefit of Ruby Princess returnees. I believe this coughshow is driven by cost shifting and state govt's wanting to avoid hospital response costs - the national picture is not in their state budget. Unidentified spreaders will spread wherever they are, unless confined. So new save money efforts - double down on lockdowns, hoping to winkle out Covid Mary's.

As we are coming up to 20 day, post overseas lockdowns, time to unchain things - but only if you carry a cellphone tracker - per Taiwan. And time to start random temperature checks for highly mobile people.
 
I saw it fly over my house this afternoon!! Now it all makes sense.
Heading towards Melbourne.
 
Responding to a post upthread, I wouldn't have thought the 1 flight/day was simply for media/politicians as most organisations have people in each state, they've all mostly switched to app-based chats and teleconferencing, even the national cabinet and it's only between two states, when Australia has more than that. Rather, I think it's just a sign of the only ports that are still open.
That's what we were going to do after the bushfires, samh004. remember the bushfires?
Still plan to do so to places I can fly into ;) I'm not a grey nomad yet :p
 
Bearing in mind it Easter Saturday (with Saturdays typically the quietest day of the seven, partcularly Sat arvo and night - it was when Mr Joyce shut down QFi/QFd in 2011), but as at 1815 hours on 11 April there didn't appear to be a single commercial passenger flight operating in Victorian airspace. All I could see was a light aircraft from some outfit called Oxford Training Academy.

We've become so used to coronavirus ( a word I'd never heard of at Christmas 2019) that this is almost unexceptional, but if any had suggested a year ago that there'd be a huge decline in domestic and international air traffic, authorities may well have had us certified.
 
CBR - MEL is all Dash 8 at the moment - it's not something I would want to book unless absolutely necessary. :confused:
Even before the current madness had descended upon us, weekend flights out of Canberra were predominantly Dash 8s, given the bulk of flights were Mon-Fri to match the Govt needs. CBR-MEL is just ok at 1h10m, but CBR-BNE at 2hrs was a bridge too far.
 
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