BA to quit Australia?

[AIRWAY]

Hi all,

Was reading "The Australian" newspaper the online version, article on the threat by BA to quit the Kandaroo Route if "the comission does not approve a continuation of its price-fixing arrangement with Qantas".

Do you think that BA would stop flying to Australia?

[tanker-driver]

It is highly unlikely that BA will quit the kangaroo route, as i rather suspect that during the months after 9/11 this became BA's most profitable route. The revenue from belly cargo alone is quite astronomical on this route. On my last flight to Australia (BA17-LHR-SIN-MEL) the aircraft was full on both sectors. I don't believe that BA would want to throw away that sort of business, not with all the problems they have right now!:D

[AIRWAY]

Thats what i thought so, a friend of mine that flies for BA says that the load factors are pretty good either to MEL or SYD.

I guess Mr. Eddington is bluffing :hmm: or maybe not :confused:

[nicecsd]

with the prospect of VS starting one stop services to Brisbane....BA should increase frequency and perhaps reintroduce one stop services to PER & Brisbane

[HZ123]

But what if you get Quantas to do all the flying for you and on your behalf, splitting the proceeds. In so doing enabling BA to focus on existing / new routes and enabling Q to take the lions share of the Kangaroo routes. More so as they seem to enjoy good relations with the authorities ?

[Kelas]

With talk of VS wanting to start flights to Oz, I doubt very much that BA would stop flying there. It's becoming a popular destination of the British public.

[Anti-ice]

.... and (especially from oct-feb) its almost impossible to get down there subload ....

[Jordan D]

I think BA will have to concentrate hard on the Kangaroo routes, as I know quite a few friends who are looking forward to the expansion of EK's ops via DXB from LHR which are equally convient.

Jordan

[RogerTangoFoxtrotIndigo]

One stop..... when is someone going to take the plunge and go non stop? If you could squeeze a little bit more from a 340-500 it would cut 5 hours from the trip, dont say im the only one who has thought about this.

[akerosid]

I think one stop is going to be the order of the day for the forseeable future; it is possible, I believe (albeit with some capacity constraints) to fly LHR-PER n/s, but there's not the traffic at PER to sustain this kind of traffic, so I don't think they would be willing to do this.

Thus, until it becomes possible to fly n/s SYD-LHR, we'll be stopping off somewhere, so airlines might as well do it wherever they can make money.

[RogerTangoFoxtrotIndigo]

But we are so close....... A345 max range (fully loaded but including reserves) 15,800 distance london to sydney 17,034 only 16,561 to brisbane.

I believe that airbus sold 5 IGW 346's to emirates, did they make any improvements to the 345 that were part of the same deal? I cant believe that airbus havent suggested it to BA or Qantas, but i've never heard it mentioned