The afternoon cns-mel flight will be operated by cns based A320 as at the moment there is a lot of spare capacity with the 2 A320s based in cns they only get 3 perth departures a week at 1815 they sit at the terminal in the afternoon from 1pm onwards.

That would only work if the both KIX flights are daily. CNS-KIX-CNS is only 4x weekly.

Jarden,

It will actually be MEL based aircraft/crew doing that PM CNS run at this stage. The CNS based machines are ear marked for other opportunities.

IIRC the A332's also do JQ 19/20 SYD-OOL-KIX

I read in the Cairns post that they are evaluating flights to NZ from Cairns. You think they could make the CNS-PER and CNS-ADL both daily up from 3-4 a week. Qantaslink 717s do daily flights from Cairns to Alice springs, Ayers rock and also double daily to Darwin. You think they could manage daily flights to the bigger 2 cities of PER and ADL

There is some confusion as to the start date for these new services; according to QF website it is 1 March, but according to JQ website it is 7 March?

With reference to Liam Gibbs post re the perth flight?

is this the departure at roughly 350pm? do you have aby further info as to when the switch to an a332 is going to happen?

No time frame was given, i'm sorry, although the turnaround time in PER was recently increased to accomodate the change when it happens.

The current flight is:
JQ968 MEL (1550) - PER (1700)
JQ969 PER (1800) - MEL (0030)
On Tuesday's the flight is opb A320, and runs 40mins later on the way over, this reduces to 20 on the way back.

A321's were meant to start on this route back on Oct 25th, however due to a number of factors (-VWT's late delivery for example) this didn't happen until last week.

Perhaps the switch will be March 1 (or March 7), and the A320 it frees up can operate the new services? Only guessing!

EBK i believe arrived SYD today as JQ7991 from MNL NOW IN jq C/S.