Air Austral B777-300ER to SYD & NOU

[Brandon Giacomin]

From airlineroute.net

As per GDS timetable display on 29JUN10, Air Austral is to operate Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on the twice weekly St. Denis de la Reunion – Sydney – Noumea route, effective 10FEB11.

The airline originally planned -300ER service in April 2009, but switched to -200ER operation. The change would free up the -200ER to operate new service to Bordeaux and Nantes from the same week.

[Andrew Ewen]

Interesting given all the speculation on this and other sites about loads on this flight . I would have thought that if the through loads from NOU to RUN were as bad as has been suggested that UU would not have moved from the -200ER to the larger capacity -300ER .

[Craig Sandford]

Looks like a few marketing dollars are now being spent promting the flight. Heard an ad on the radio this morning promoting Reunion as a holiday destination.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

Yes, just heard the ad (on 95.3 Classic Rock)! Very enticing considering the weather here!!

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

As per 22SEP11 GDS timetable and inventory display, Air Austral on 24NOV11 and from 12JAN11 to 24MAR12 is operating Boeing 777-200LR aircraft instead of -300ER on St. Denis de la Reunion – Sydney – Noumea service, on one of two weekly flight.

This results in capacity reduction by up to 80 seats per week/flight/direction.

Schedules:

UU771 RUN1205 – 0605+1SYD0740+1 – 1030+1NOU 77L 4
UU771 RUN1205 – 0605+1SYD0740+1 – 1030+1NOU 77W 7

UU772 NOU0850 – 1210SYD1345 – 1915RUN 77L 6
UU772 NOU0850 – 1210SYD1345 – 1015RUN 77W 2

Info from: http://airlineroute.net/2011/09/22/uu-sydnou-w11/

The days of operation are unchanged at (Friday/ Saturday and Monday/Tuesday)The B777-200LR's are brand new, the will be replacing a couple of the 200ER in the airlines fleet.