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Old 24th March 2018, 04:14 PM
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ZND is indeed operating the QF9 service today and is about an hour west of Melbourne on its way to Perth. It is then scheduled to depart Perth at 18:50 local time which will be 21:50 in Sydney.
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Old 24th March 2018, 04:28 PM
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Thanks. As a matter of interest, ZNB left for Perth 45 minutes earlier, at 15.35 on QF777, a domestic, Insurance?? It is scheduled to come back to MEL tonight on 648 at 23.25. Is that a first overnighter for PER/MEL with the 789?
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Old 24th March 2018, 04:58 PM
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With 6.5 hours on the ground in Perth it could well have a secondary purpose as a back up 789 for the Perth to London leg. Good insurance against negative publicity on such an important inaugural flight if it was cancelled or extremely delayed while a replacement aircraft was flown in.
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Old 25th March 2018, 02:57 PM
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Touched down at LHR at 05.03am. Today is ZNA.
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Old 25th March 2018, 10:34 PM
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ZND has just departed LHR as QF10 to PER.
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Old 26th March 2018, 11:36 AM
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An interesting article from Australian Business Traveller addressing the potential of QANTAS PER to CDG flights on the 789. Commence in late 2019 if the economics of the PER to LHR flights work out. No mention of ordering additional 789s though but FRA mentioned to follow. The link is:

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Old 26th March 2018, 03:26 PM
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It is a pity he cannot announce where the new port from BNE will be from 1 December????
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Old 27th March 2018, 09:23 AM
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It seems that a certain Travel Agent in Perth scored Seat 1A on the first QF9.

He is of course known here - one Luke Chittock.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/tra...-ng-b88781556z
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Old 28th March 2018, 08:40 AM
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Air New Zealand have just announced the commencement of year round Auckland to Chicago services 3 times per week with 789s from 30 November, 2018.

The Routes Online post is:

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Air New Zealand on Wednesday (28MAR18) morning local time announced new service launch to the US, which sees the Star Alliance member offering Auckland – Chicago O’Hare route. Scheduled to be operated by 275-seater Boeing 787-9 aircraft, this route will commence on 30NOV18, 3 times a week on year-round basis. The following schedule is effective 30NOV18 – 09MAR19.

Reservation for this new route gradually opened after 0840NZT 28MAR18.

NZ026 AKL2010 – 1615ORD 789 357
NZ027 ORD1910 – 0630+2AKL 789 357

Block time is around 15 hours for NZ026, nearly 16.5 hours for NZ027.
It will be interesting to see if QANTAS responds with flights from Brisbane to Chicago with some spare 789 capacity from the fourth Brisbane based aircraft. The US seems to have left the spotlight somewhat with the commencement of non stop flights from Perth to London. With the Air NZ block times, specifically the return flight, would the 789 have the range to operate from Brisbane to Chicago?
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Old 28th March 2018, 11:26 AM
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With the Air NZ block times, specifically the return flight, would the 789 have the range to operate from Brisbane to Chicago?
Joyce mentioned Chicago was an option when in Seattle picking up the keys to the first 787 last year

"In addition we want to fly somewhere new in the states," Joyce said, with the announcement of which city will see the red-tailed Dreamliners to be made "later this year or early next year."

"That will either be Seattle where we would work with our partner Alaska Airlines, or it will be Chicago or Dallas working with American Airlines."
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