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

[levelnine]

Truly astonishing times we live in. The Qantas fleet is down to just 3 aircraft (excluding charters/one-off flights):

"For the next few weeks we’ll essentially be flying three aircraft – a Qantas 737, a Jetstar A320 and a QantasLink Dash 8 – so that will be the entire domestic network," Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce told airline staff during a Town Hall teleconference held briefing on Wednesday April 8.

Coronavirus: Qantas culls its flying fleet to "three aircraft"

Qantas rolls out a drastic downsizing of its domestic operations.

www.executivetraveller.com

 

[Scarlett]

I saw that Dash 8 doing ADL-SYD yesterday or Friday. It's all happening in Aus.

 

[Cessna 180]

Operating in NSW and Vic the last couple of weeks, I have never heard the airwaves so quiet. More GA than RPT by far...

 

[dajop]

It's quite incredible. If someone had predicted as recent as December, that by mid April, that on some days MEL-SYD would only see one non-stop flight a day ... across all carriers .... people would take you off to be certified.

 

[Melburnian1]

It's quite incredible. If someone had predicted as recent as December, that by mid April, that on some days MEL-SYD would only see one non-stop flight a day ... across all carriers .... people would take you off to be certified.

As I said in post #36. Even though you flew JQ, at least we agree on something haha.

dajop, please give us the certainty no one else can. When will it all end?

 

[dajop]

As I said in post #36. Even though you flew JQ, at least we agree on something haha.

dajop, please give us the certainty no one else can. When will it all end?

Just re-read you post 36, I think we definitely agree on that.

Haha, if I could give you certainty on when it would all end, my predictive powers would be so awesome that I'd be hiring private jets to fly around, due to the incredible wealth I could accumulate playing the stock market

On a more serious note, I don't think we'll go down this path, but powerful forces seem to be at play in some places to "normalise" COVID-19 in the next few weeks, with some definite nudges to power brokers suggesting that lots of COVID deaths would have happened anyway and that from tallies you need to subtract the number of normal pneumonia deaths for the corresponding period of the year. But I honestly think we won't go down that path in Australia.

 

[oz_mark]

On a more serious note, I don't think we'll go down this path, but powerful forces seem to be at play in some places to "normalise" COVID-19 in the next few weeks, with some definite nudges to power brokers suggesting that lots of COVID deaths would have happened anyway and that from tallies you need to subtract the number of normal pneumonia deaths for the corresponding period of the year. But I honestly think we won't go down that path in Australia.

I went down the rabbit hole of how calculating death rates from Covid-19, and things really aren't that clear.

It's hard to get a handle on the number that have died "from" Covid-19 (vs "with" Covid-19), and then there is whole issue of how many people have actually been infected. Certainly if you take some countries where you have a known long term average of deaths per day, then adding the Covid-19 deaths, you end up with a total greater than the total deaths that actually occurred.

Really don't know how they plan to unpack it all.

 

[PineappleSkip]

If you take the duration of Spanish Flu as a guide, it should be all over by the end of 2022.
cheers skip

 

[Melburnian1]

... But I honestly think we won't go down that path in Australia.

There's been some not-so-subtle pressure from Richard Goyder, who wears multiple hats, but one assumes 'behind the scenes' there's much lobbying from various figures in business to not (as Premier of Tassie announced late today) shut down even more businesses. But dajop is cortrect: how will it be 'solved', and when will aviation (at least domestically) and all else be back to some semblance of normality?

 

[Comoman]

Qantas, Virgin restart flights with $165m Govt subsidy

A 'minimum domestic network' operated by Qantas and Virgin will be underwritten by the Australian government.

www.executivetraveller.com

Interesting development

 

[ThatMrBlake]

Qantas, Virgin restart flights with $165m Govt subsidy

A 'minimum domestic network' operated by Qantas and Virgin will be underwritten by the Australian government.

www.executivetraveller.com

Interesting development

Absolutely needs to happen and needs to be stood up sooner rather than later. Especially with a bunch of interstate residents coming out of quarantine with no real way to get home. Needs to happen this week at the latest early next week.

 

[Foreigner]

I’m guessing QF will not be flying anywhere near capacity to maintain physical distancing. Would it be aisle-window-aisle in each half of rows for the 737?

Edit: have added this link:

Airfare Hike: Airfare likely to shoot up threefold due to social distancing in planes | India Business News - Times of India

India Business News: Aviation authorities are evaluating the option of allowing only one person in a row of three seats, with another passenger in the immediately-behind r

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[hydrabyss]

I’m guessing QF will not be flying anywhere near capacity to maintain physical distancing. Would it be aisle-window-aisle in each half of rows for the 737?

Here is India's idea of distancing

https://simpleflying.com/flying-will-change-in-india-post-coronavirus-heres-how/

 

[ThatMrBlake]

I’m guessing QF will not be flying anywhere near capacity to maintain physical distancing. Would it be aisle-window-aisle in each half of rows for the 737?

On the next PER-BNE flight my partner is on I can see all middle seats are blocked. 1/3 cut in capacity.

 

[TheInsider]

On the next PER-BNE flight my partner is on I can see all middle seats are blocked. 1/3 cut in capacity.

If the flight is full they will use the middle seats, if not full middle seats will stay blocked. They aren't reducing the capacity, just soft blocks so to speak.

 

[dajop]

Has QF completely withdrawn MEL-SYD services for the next week? On ExpertFlyer, every service (including those via CBR) is showing 0 and you can't see seat maps, nor purchase seats. Although SYD-MEL (that direction only) is showing availability on some days.

 

[drron]

Here near LST I hear a plane leaving ~ 2030.Looked up flight radar and a QF freight service QF7365 LST-MEL.

 

[PineappleSkip]

Has QF completely withdrawn MEL-SYD services for the next week? On ExpertFlyer, every service (including those via CBR) is showing 0 and you can't see seat maps, nor purchase seats. Although SYD-MEL (that direction only) is showing availability on some days.

If it’s like BNE-SYD it may be sold out. There was one flight a day next week on that route and most were sold out a while ago. Not sure what the story is with the disappearing seat maps; they were there a few days ago. Possibly seat selection has been canned...

 

[milehighclub]

Has QF completely withdrawn MEL-SYD services for the next week?

Could be that they are about to announce a minimal domestic network and have removed flights in preparation for announcing a new schedule.

 

[Mattg]

STATEMENT ON MINIMUM DOMESTIC NETWORK

Keep up to date with Qantas' latest news and information, media releases, articles, images and more with the Qantas News Room.

www.qantasnewsroom.com.au

164 flights per week will be operated to 44 Australian destinations for at least the next 8 weeks, to be underwritten by the federal government.