SYD/MEL-PER 'all A330' from April 2013

[eastwest101]

I don't understand these two comments?

Provided you jag an A330? 90% of flights from MEL/SYD to PER are an A332?

And, 738 no matter whom you fly on weekends? Both airlines have between 50 and 90% scheduled A332s?

Yes - I should have been clearer, as you say on VA PER-SYD and PER-MEL are nearly all A332's even on the weekends, but there are two different VA A332 configs as discussed elsewhere - I should have said a "new" VA A332. (Still old VA A332 better than "new" QF 332 anyway).

And the weekend comment was more about golden triangle stuff on the weekends, sorry for going OT there but was just looking at the QF and VA weekends in April and its a bit difficult to actually find A332s or B767s there, but agree with you - between PER and SYD/MEL on weekends then both airlines have some widebodies.

 

[Flyerqf]

Qantas has scheduled A330-200 on all weekday SYD-PER and MEL-PER services and all A330-300 aircraft are scheduled on international services to Asia.

How is Qantas going to do this? They need at least 5 aircraft to operate MEL-PER and 5 to do SYD-PER, yet they only have 9 A330-200 aircraft.

Schedules have been updated. Looks like the odd A330-300 and B767-300 will still operate some services. They simply don't have enough A330-200 to operate all SYD-PER-SYD and MEL-PER-MEL services as A330-200 aircraft, until the 787-8's arrive at Jetstar and some of their A330-200's come back to Qantas domestic.