Qantas Aims to Upgrade Some China Services to 747s

[Will H]

Qantas yesterday filed with the IASC for an extra 166 seats a week to China so from mid-January 2011 it can upgrade some services from A330 to B747. Qantas says this is for the Northern Winter 2010 scheduling season.

Does Qantas expect marginal higher demand or is an A330 needed elsewhere?

[Ryan K]

It would be great to see the A330 on the Honolulu run. Having an ageing 763 on SYD-HNL route is disgraceful.

[Malcolm Parker]

Originally Posted by Will H

Qantas yesterday filed with the IASC for an extra 166 seats a week to China so from mid-January 2011 it can upgrade some services from A330 to B747. Qantas says this is for the Northern Winter 2010 scheduling season.

Does Qantas expect marginal higher demand or is an A330 needed elsewhere?

Just in time for Chinese New Year.
So that would make 5pw on A330 and 2pw on the 744. I am guessing FRI and SUN for the 744 given that it is already impossible to get business class on some of these flights a few weeks out.

[Tim C]

Would be great to get A330 on the Perth-Japan runs. 763 not cutting it.

[Jarden S]

Qantas just dosen't have enough A330s in their fleet to do all these routes.

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

QF have the A330's if they switched the A332's from Domestic to International, and then moved the B763, back to Domestic.

Why do they need A332's doing the MEL-SYD-MEL Shuttle?

Stuart

[Wenglock M]

My guess is that the A332s on the MEL-SYD-MEL shuttles are generally doing those in between their international rotations so even if they weren't doing those shuttle runs, they wouldn't have enough spare time in their schedules to do another international run.

[Jarden S]

Also if they not retire any of their 767-300s and kept all 36 for domestic operations there would be around 10 A330s free for international operations.

[Ian Nicholls]

There is plenty of spare International configured 332/333 capacity. Two of the 14 International 330 fleet are currently rostered for trans-Continental Domestic flights daily:

01/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
02/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
03/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
04/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
05/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
06/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
07/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-VYK 737-800 12J/156Y
08/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
09/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
10/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
11/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
12/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
13/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
15/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPG A330-300 30J/267Y
16/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPG A330-300 30J/267Y
17/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPG A330-300 30J/267Y
18/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPG A330-300 30J/267Y
19/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
20/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
21/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-VYI 737-800 12J/156Y
22/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
23/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
24/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
26/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
27/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
28/08/2010 QF777 Melbourne Perth VH-VXD 737-800 12J/156Y

01/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBH A330-200 36J/199Y
02/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-OGM 767-300 25J/204Y
03/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBI A330-200 36J/199Y
04/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBG A330-200 36J/199Y
05/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-OGM 767-300 25J/204Y
06/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
07/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
08/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBG A330-200 36J/199Y
09/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBH A330-200 36J/199Y
10/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBH A330-200 36J/199Y
11/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBH A330-200 36J/199Y
12/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
13/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPG A330-300 30J/267Y
14/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPJ A330-300 30J/267Y
15/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBI A330-200 36J/199Y
16/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBI A330-200 36J/199Y
17/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBL A330-200 36J/199Y
18/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBL A330-200 36J/199Y
19/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPC A330-300 30J/267Y
20/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y
21/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPA A330-300 30J/267Y
22/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBI A330-200 36J/199Y
23/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBG A330-200 36J/199Y
24/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBG A330-200 36J/199Y
25/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-EBG A330-200 36J/199Y
26/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPI A330-300 30J/267Y
27/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPI A330-300 30J/267Y
28/08/2010 QF577 Sydney Perth VH-QPH A330-300 30J/267Y

Courtesy http://www.theqantassource.com/qfflighttracker.html

[Jarden S]

Thanks Ian for that comprehensive list.