Philippine Airlines back to BNE

[Jarden S]

Philippine Airlines plans are a MNL-MEL-BNE-MNL rotation 2x weekly Tue and Sat arriving in BNE at 10.05 and departing at 11.30 commencing 18th march. With this change of routing Sydney will miss out on a 1 flight to Manila

[lloyd fox]

Jarden, 18 march is neither a Tuesday or Saturday.

[Brad Myer]

Wonder if QF will ever put the A333 on the MNL route.

Loads are high pretty much all year round, yield is prob low though.

[Marty H]

Loads for Phillipines Airlines are very low sometimes out of MEL and Im thinking they are doing the stop in BNE to add extra pax, sometimes they only have 30-40 pax on some flights in/out of MEL

[Jarden S]

Its actually THU/SAT operating 1st flight on THU 18th March 2010

[Jarden S]

PAL set for Brisbane after 10-year hiatus

Philippines Airlines (PAL) is considering a restructure of its Australia network that would see the carrier operate to Brisbane for the first time in a decade, Travel Today understands.

The airline is looking at twice-weekly flights to the Queensland capital in a triangular service with Melbourne and Manila, the Philippine capital.

PAL last operated to Brisbane in the late 1990s shortly before the Asian financial crisis brought the airline to its knees.

Currently, PAL operates a five times weekly service linking Manila, Melbourne and Sydney. That will revert to a daily service by the end of the November following an improvement in economic conditions. Two of the services were suspended in September following the downturn.

Sources said the Manila-Melbourne-Brisbane-Manila services will start on March 10 if management goes ahead with the plan. Further route network talks are expected to take place soon with a decision likely before the end of the month.

“The Brisbane plans have been on the table for a while but it may now become reality,” one source said. “Market conditions have improved.”

But any return to Queensland will likely be at the expense of Sydney which is thought likely to lose two of the seven weekly services. However, it is believed the carrier will introduce a larger A330-300 on the route, with a 777 utilised on Brisbane.

19 November 2009

[Jarden S]

What's been posted about Philippine Airlines is correct, and subject to the new schedule (read triangulated services) being approved by PR HQ later this month, Brisbane will see PR 777-300ER services effective March 2010. Qantas is expected to replace the 767-300 operating Brisbane-Manila serivces with A330-200s effective March 2010

[lloyd fox]

Originally Posted by Jarden S

PAL set for Brisbane after 10-year hiatus




But any return to Queensland will likely be at the expense of Sydney which is thought likely to lose two of the seven weekly services. However, it is believed the carrier will introduce a larger A330-300 on the route, with a 777 utilised on Brisbane.

19 November 2009

That article paragraph is incorrect.THE 777 is the larger with 370 pax not the 330-300 which seats 302 pax.
So i reckon the author in travelweekly, which this article came from, may be wrong,i think he got it around the wrong way.
If Sydney are supposedly to lose 2 flights would you not expect them to get the larger aircraft to try to balance out the seat loss from losing 2 flights.Also as mentioned in a earlier thread that MEL loads are not good then you would expect a smaller aircraft .
I think you will find the new BNE flights will be 333's.

[Jim Liu]

This has not yet go on to my blog, but thought I post it here first.

Philippine Airlines from 16MAR10 is introducing Boeing 777-300ER service to Sydney and Melbourne.

In addition, service to Brisbane returns from 17MAR10.

In general:
2 weekly 330 MNL - MEL - BNE - MNL
3 weekly 77W MNL - MEL - SYD - MNL
2 weekly 77W MNL - SYD

[Brad Myer]

Anyone heard anything else about QF putting A330s on MNL services from MAR 2010?

Thanks