Qantas - Emirates Announcement Next Week

[Kieran Wells]

Originally Posted by Bernie P

China Airlines have rtn Business for c. $500 to AKL!!!

Looks like all promo fares gone.. Crica $660 rtn during promo period, then up to $1070 afterwards..

[Mick B]

Regarding Singapore and Hong Kong flights, the devil is in the detail...

“We will increase dedicated capacity to Singapore..."

The way I read that, means that any flights operating SYD/MEL-SIN are now "dedicated" and will terminate there, rather than continuing onto LHR or FRA.

So flights of any nature will be an increase in "dedicated capacity", because previously they all continued onto Europe. (except PER/BNE/ADL...the routes that will be dropped).

More cow dung from the masters of spin!

[Ash W]

It's true though! As for PER/BNE/ADL if you look at the detail you will see Qantas still plans to fly to those locations, the ONLY thing given to EK are the passengers going to DXB and beyond.

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Mick B

So flights of any nature will be an increase in "dedicated capacity", because previously they all continued onto Europe.

Not quite... as mentioned by someone else earlier a certain percentage (known only to QF and maybe BA) of the seats on every QF1/2, QF9/10 and QF5/6 is dedicated to Asian O&D traffic. So it's not as simple as saying every QF flight into SIN (other than ADL, BNE and PER) is an increase in dedicated capacity.

Separately, I wonder what equipment they will use for the 'new' SIN services? Perhaps BKK will go to EK which would give them equivalent to 1 A330?

[callum bain]

Dont know if this has already been posted...But will the Skywards and frequent flyer programs be merged?

[Thomas Collins]

Qantas will continue to service Singapore from existing cities.

From some ports, services will be increased to deliver increased frequency to compete against Singapore Airlines and re-timed to support the corporate market.

There will be no onward traffic on Qantas metal to Europe from Singapore.

[Bernie P]

Originally Posted by callum bain

Dont know if this has already been posted...But will the Skywards and frequent flyer programs be merged?

Hi Callum,

They will be 'stand alone' programs, and will continue to operate the same way they are now, with the exception that you can you your FF points on the other carriers flights if you want...

[Grahame Hutchison]

All the Qantas promotional material that has been published in the past couple of days has indicated that FF points can be used and earned on both carriers, however I did hear Tim Clark from Emirates say that this was a "work in progress", and they still need to agree on equivalent status levels etc.

[Bernie P]

It will be interesting to see how SQ respond to this, thinking outside of the actual QF/EK decision... Will SQ boost flights/capacity to try and win those QF pax that are not happy with this decision perhaps? I don't know, but I think some interesting times ahead, and not just for QF/EK...

THE Singaporean government has admitted that the island state will be impacted by Qantas's decision to move its regional hub to Dubai but says it can replace the lost airline and passenger flows.
Singapore's Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang said on Monday that Qantas's change of direction was a commercial decision.

"Of course (it) will have some impact on us," Mr Lim told reporters in Canberra.

"But at the same time, there are air slots that Qantas can use and the air traffic in Asia and South-East Asia is growing.

"So what we may lose in terms of the European flow, we hope to rebuild again."

The minister is in Australia for the 7th Singapore-Australia Joint Ministerial Committee meeting.

Last week, Qantas announced its flights to Europe would now stop over in Dubai, under a 10-year partnership signed between the carrier and Middle East airline Emirates.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...#ixzz262Fdd5EH

[Justin L]

I'm interested in the retiming of SIN and HKG flights to enhance connectivity in Asia. Is it safe to assume that SIN connections will focus around 3K and JL flight connections, and HKG around CX connections? Or will QF potentially add on tag flights to say India or other areas of SE Asia in between turnarounds similar to long haul flights into Australia doing NZ returns (and European airlines into SIN having SE Asia tag flights)?

If the latter is the case, depending on their rights, could this potentially somewhat fill the whole by their abandoned premium SE Asian carrier by flying QF metal on additional routes?