DELTA to start LA - Sydney from July 2009 - Page 11

Gerard M · #**101** 10th July 2009, 08:09 AM

Just noticed on this mornings 16right that todays delta flight was Deta 09. Why wasn't Delta 16 used or is this a different flight? Actually just looking at it again and there appears to be DL09 and DL17 this morning.

Grahame Hutchison · #**102** 10th July 2009, 09:52 AM

Gerard,

The DL09 will just be a bad transmission as the flight numbers are normally 6 digits.

Radi K · #**103** 14th July 2009, 12:11 AM

DL17 is running 4 hours late and will arrive at 1030am tomo...might be good for pics.

Paul Hunter · #**104** 14th July 2009, 01:18 AM

N707DN operating the flight.

Regards.

Stefan Perkas · #**105** 14th July 2009, 06:59 PM

Evening all,

DELTA is reducing Atlanta - Los Angeles - Sydney service to 6 weekly, from 13SEP09 to 07DEC09.

ATL/LAX Departure is not operating on Day 7, and SYD departure is cancelled on Day 2.

Daniel M · #**106** 18th July 2009, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew

Wow - VA is performing quite badly. 57% seat factors would equal some pretty bad losses...

82% for QF and 78% for UA in the current climate is very good...

Business Daily

It's figures for one month Andrew? How can you suggest they are peforming badly from 1 month of figures? Perhaps wait till some substantial information is available, then you can take your monthly hit at the VB Group...

Steve Jones · #**107** 18th July 2009, 04:10 PM

The QF load factors are no doubt helped by the fact that they cancelled and consolidated a number of services, something that they have the luxury to do with their multiple frequencies.

Jason H · #**108** 18th July 2009, 04:30 PM

...and their multiple configuration a/c to suit the seats that are sold

Michael Morrison · #**109** 18th July 2009, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew

[FONT="Arial"]Wow - VA is performing quite badly. 57% seat factors would equal some pretty bad losses...

Actually the load was 51% for inbound and 62% for outbound in the month of April. Not bad considering it is their 2nd full month of operating.

I'd expect May (traditionally a poor month) to be similar, however I expect the June figures to be quite high. Their flights came out full on several occasions and loads were quite high from what I have heard.

For those interested here is a link to the stats

http://www.bitre.gov.au/info.aspx?Re...211&NodeId=103

Andrew M · #**110** 18th July 2009, 05:51 PM

Daily flights with Delta were bound to be reduced!