Qantas 787

[James Smith]

QANTAS 787-9 domestic service prior to LAX operations commencing in December, 2017 has been released. Sydney gets six services per week with QF442 arriving on Saturday at 16:25 and QF460 arriving at 19:55 Monday to Friday. QF439 departs at 14:00 on Saturday and QF497 departs at 22:05 on Monday to Friday. These times are based on current schedules. I'm not sure how the Saturday schedule will work with the 787-9 leaving Sydney at 14:00 and arriving back at 16:25 with only one aircraft delivered by 6 November but is subject to change.

QANTAS in recent schedule update has filed preliminary domestic service by its new Boeing 787-9, currently set to operate from 06NOV17. Between 06NOV17 and 14DEC17, the Dreamliner is scheduled to operate following service.

Melbourne – Perth
MEL departure: QF775 Day x67, QF769 Day 7
PER departure: QF772 Day x67, QF776 Day 7

Melbourne – Sydney
MEL departure: QF442 Day 6, QF460 Day x67
SYD departure: QF439 Day 6, QF497 Day x67

Source: Airline Routes Online

[Dennis McLean]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, the second group of four 789's to be based in Brisbane.



"Media Releases

QANTAS TO BASE FOUR DREAMLINERS IN BRISBANE

Brisbane

Published on 29th August 2017


BRISBANE, 29 August 2017 – Qantas today announced that four 787-9 Dreamliners will be based in Brisbane, bringing 470 new jobs and opening up new potential international routes.

The first of eight Dreamliners ordered by the national carrier will be delivered from Boeing in late October this year, and the first to be based in Brisbane will arrive in mid-2018. All four Brisbane-based aircraft will be in place by the end of 2018.

Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, said basing four of the airline’s Dreamliners in Brisbane will help drive international tourism into the state over the long term.

“Queensland is the birthplace of Qantas and it’s fitting that we will base four of our Dreamliners in the state. The 787 offers a step-change for customers in terms of comfort and efficiency and we are pleased Queenslanders will be able to experience them direct from Brisbane.

“Each aircraft we base in Brisbane brings new jobs. One hundred and twenty of our Dreamliner cabin crew and pilots will be based in the city, with many choosing to settle in the state. A further 350 indirect jobs are expected to be created as a result.

“We’ve said that initially our Dreamliners will replace the routes that our older 747 fly but there are also new destinations we are looking at given the capability of the aircraft. A range of exciting options is on the table that will help drive tourism to the state and we look forward to making that decision in coming months.

“I’d like to acknowledge the support of the Queensland Government, Brisbane Airport Corporation and Tourism Australia for helping to make our Brisbane Dreamliner base a reality,” said Mr Joyce.

From Brisbane, the Qantas Dreamliner is capable of flying non-stop to destinations such as Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco in the United States, Vancouver in Canada, as well as Asia.

Qantas recently completed the reconfiguration of its A330 fleet at its Brisbane hangar and is installing Wi-Fi on a number of its 737 and A330 aircraft, that operate domestically, at the airline’s Brisbane base.

In 2016 Qantas opened its new International Business Lounge and opened a new domestic lounge precinct with a Business Lounge and Valet earlier this year. The Qantas Club in Brisbane is due to open in coming months.

Qantas operates 58 return, direct international services each week from Brisbane to Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Noumea, Port Moresby, Singapore and Tokyo. The airline also operates more than 620 return services from Brisbane per week to 25 destinations across its domestic network and more than 390 return services per week to 20 destinations within Queensland.

In December 2016 Qantas announced that the airline’s first four in its fleet of eight Dreamliners would be based in Melbourne, serving the Melbourne – Los Angeles route from December 2017 and the Melbourne – London (via Perth) route from March 2018. This is the world’s first service to link Australia directly with the UK.

Qantas will take delivery of its first Dreamliner in October 2017 with the 787-9 operating on domestic sectors for six weeks for crew training and familiarisation before its first scheduled Melbourne – Los Angeles service on 15 December 2017.

More information on the Qantas Dreamliner can be found here."

[Greg Hyde]

More on initial routes

Qantas 787-9 to enter service in November on domestic routes, preliminary schedules show

Qantas has filed preliminary flight schedules showing its soon-to-arrive Boeing 787-9 will operate domestic services from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney prior to commencing long-haul services to Los Angeles.

The airline is due to take delivery of its first 787-9 in the middle of October, with an exact delivery date yet to be officially confirmed.

While nonstop Melbourne-Los Angeles flights with the 787-9 are due to take off from December 15, preliminary filings with global distribution systems (GDS) showed Qantas planned to operate regular public transport (RPT) domestic flights from November 6.

The Airlineroute website reports the Qantas 787-9 schedule comprises six flights a week between Melbourne and Perth and six flights a week on the Melbourne-Sydney route from November 6 to December 14.

A Qantas spokesperson confirmed to Australian Aviation that the preliminary filings had been entered into the GDS. However, the spokesperson stressed the schedule was only preliminary and subject to change pending confirmation of the final delivery date and associated preparations for the entry into service of the new aircraft type.

Further, Qantas will communicate with the travelling public how to book those domestic 787-9 flights once the schedule is officially locked in.

The airline currently has eight 787-9s on order, with 11 787-8s already in service with subsidiary Jetstar.

They will feature a premium-heavy 236-seat interior: 42 seats in business class (in a 1-2-1 configuration), 28 in premium economy (at 2-3-2 abreast) and 166 in economy (at nine abreast), but it is expected that the 787-9 domestic services would be sold as a two-class (business and economy) flight.

The first Qantas 787-9, to be registered VH-ZNA, recently rolled off the final assembly line at Boeing’s Everett facility.

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...mestic-routes/

It's a bit like death by a million press releases.

[Adam W]

[QUOTE=Dennis McLean;104363]BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, the second group of four 789's to be based in Brisbane.



"Media Releases

QANTAS TO BASE FOUR DREAMLINERS IN BRISBANE

Unfortunately this will most likely be the end of the BNE-LAX 747.

[James Smith]

Two 787-9s to operate QF15/16 BRI - LAX. Where will the the other two Dreamliners fly to from BRI?

To replace the remaining non ER 744s doesn't there need to be 787-9 services from SYD - SFO. Will they operate BRI - SFO? I wouldn't have thought so but maybe a couple of times a week and then return SFO - SYD? Can they base the crew and aircraft in Brisbane and still operate from Sydney. Only if they triangulate through the same US city, unless they position the aircraft from Brisbane to Sydney.

This is doing my head in!!!

[Adam W]

Rumor has it that Perth-Paris will be the next announcement. This could make it LAX-BNE-PER-CDG.

[Ryan K]

Wouldn't that be JFK-LAX-BNE-PER-CDG return?

[Dennis McLean]

Would not have the time to add LAX/JFK/LAX which would be about 9 hours plus and extra 90 mins on the ground in both JFK & LAX. Check the times for MEL to LAX and LHR. About 5 hours on the ground in MEL, 90min PER, 5 hours LHR, 90 mins PER, 90 mins MEL then about 4 hours in LAX. Almost LCC times?????

[Kent Broadhead]

Agree with Ryan though. Given the current BNE-LAX-JFK flights, something would need to change for CDG to be serviced through PER from BNE

[Dennis McLean]

I cannot believe that Joyce would replace a Daily 744 with 364 seats with a daily 789 with 236 seats on BNE/LAX/BNE. That is a reduction of 896 seats. But then look at MEL/DXB/LHR, a 388 to a 789 and remember that not all those seats (236) will start in MEL. So He is just giving seats away to competitors.
Perhaps the second 2 789's will do a daily to another city like Dallas or Chicago or 3 days to Dallas and 4 to Chicago. What is the use of a BNE/YVR as AC has that tied up. Remember that the 388 fleet will have a dedicated need for 9 Aircraft, 3 SYD-LHR, 4 - SYD & MEL-LAX, and 2 SYD-DFW. With 1 in maintenance most of the time, where will the other 2 from MEL/LHR be scheduled, perhaps 1 on SYD/HKG permanently. Any thoughts.