Western Sydney Airport (WSI) Discussion

[Saab34]

I’m not sure Alliance will operate these? They have just made a whole bunch of pilots redundant, and I’m not sure if they even have a Sydney base currently. The contract with QF ends in 18 months, seems unlikely they will open a Sydney base.

A220 might be better suited?

 

[dajop]

TBH I think more likely domestically to see late night arrivals than late night departures if MEL is a guide.

 

[HS-TQE]

I’m not sure Alliance will operate these? They have just made a whole bunch of pilots redundant, and I’m not sure if they even have a Sydney base currently. The contract with QF ends in 18 months, seems unlikely they will open a Sydney base.

A220 might be better suited?

The initial plan was to establish a WSI base with the Alliance E190s, which I'll assume will go as planned. However, if the Alliance situation with the QF wetleases does occur, QF does have NJS A220s as an alternative Plan B, and I don't see them using Network, so I'd suspect mainline 737s be Plan C.

 

[Harrison_133]

I’m not sure Alliance will operate these? They have just made a whole bunch of pilots redundant, and I’m not sure if they even have a Sydney base currently. The contract with QF ends in 18 months, seems unlikely they will open a Sydney base.

A220 might be better suited?

There were murmurs Alliance would open a 'Sydney basin' base, but given the situation they've got themselves in, it remains to be seen whether that ever eventuates.

 

[Saab34]

There were murmurs Alliance would open a 'Sydney basin' base, but given the situation they've got themselves in, it remains to be seen whether that ever eventuates.

No doubt Alliance would want trade offs in any negotiations to reduce the burden on the overall commercial deal already in place, whatever deal they negotiate you would expect it would somewhat need to benefit Alliance.

Depends how much leverage they have these days, Qantas might be in the position now to say no thanks to a deal and run with the A220s, a luxury they didn’t have 5 years ago.

It’s obviously complex as NJS are in stalled pilot negotiations at the moment. We might see nothing based there initially just operated to and from.