QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[Greg Hyde]

QF are replacing Dash8's with E190's on some East Coast services.

[Robert.M]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

QF are replacing Dash8's with E190's on some East Coast services.

GFF and WGA will be two that won’t see the E190. Due to not having the required infrastructure and passenger numbers.

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Robert.M

GFF and WGA will be two that won’t see the E190. Due to not having the required infrastructure and passenger numbers.

GFF has only just gone to the Q400 so I wouldn't think the E190 from SYD would be on the cards for quite some time. I had the same sense as you about WGA, at least from the pax numbers side, and I doubt ABX would get an E190 from SYD either given several of those services have been dropped back to the Q300.

My assumption is that, out of SYD, the likely E190 candidates are probably CFS, BNK (not every service) and maybe WTB, plus some CBR. I wonder if they might, sans Bonza, do a W-pattern SYD-WTB-MEL and return...

[MarkR]

WTB didn’t work for AirNorth and the 170, let alone a 190!

[Zac M]

Which services Greg?

[Greg Hyde]

Zac,

Noticed several airports announcing the start E190 replacing Dash8 services.

Newcastle (to BNE I think),

https://www.facebook.com/ntlairport/...jbKXgq58GQdCyl
also Central Queensland (Emerald)

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

Zac,

Noticed several airports announcing the start E190 replacing Dash8 services.

Newcastle (to BNE I think),

https://www.facebook.com/ntlairport/...jbKXgq58GQdCyl
also Central Queensland (Emerald)

Most of these changes came into effect in late March or early April - the only one that started a bit later was EMD which started this week.

NTL-BNE and NTL-MEL have both changed to E190s, although MEL was previously a B717 not a Dash.

BNE-ABX is now an E190, and the E190s have taken over more of the flying from BNE to places like GLT and ROK.

What will be interesting to watch is the end of B717 services at SYD. For instance, the SYD-LST service is already in the system as an E190 (replacing the current B717) from October, but there are no other SYD-based E190 services showing as yet apart from the TSV-SYD which obviously is a TSV-based service. Will E190s start to show up on SYD to places like CBR (looks more like B737 but who knows), regional NSW and WTB?

[Greg Hyde]

Rowan,

https://www.facebook.com/ntlairport/...jbKXgq58GQdCyl

seems to indicate that E190's are replacing Dash-8's

[Rowan McKeever]

From BNE that's correct, from MEL it was 12x weekly B717 until about a year ago, then a 50/50 split of B717 and E190, and from late March is now all E190.