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Originally Posted by Kain C
Hopefully what will happen with this new aircraft is that on the other days of the week (Mon,Wed,Thu,Sun), the aircraft does CNS-ADL 6:20-10:00, then ADL-CNS 10:40-13:05 (to line up with the CNS-OOL-CNS service). Then the aircraft that currently operates the ADL-CNS-ADL flight can do ADL-BNE-ADL instead, freeing up the aircraft that currently does the BNE-ADL-BNE run which can re-introduce BNE-HBA-BNE in the morning (rather than the midnight special if it is on time  ) on Tues, Thu and Sat! |
Well the ADL-CNS 07:55-10:20 and CNS-ADL 10:50-14:30 is currently operated by Melbourne-based crew and aircraft (I did it on Saturday). Our routing for that shift is MEL-ADL-CNS-ADL-MEL. We also have another shift out of MEL that runs MEL-ADL-BNE-ADL-MEL. So I'm not sure if by having the CNS crew and aircraft operate CNS-ADL-CNS it will be freeing up the one that operates BNE-ADL-BNE as you say, because as far as I know it is only us MEL crew and our aircraft that ops the ADL/BNE run, along with the ADL/CNS pairing.
Maybe there is different aircraft utilisation going on here than meets the eye, but just though I'd offer you that perspective from where the crew originate.