Originally Posted by
Traffic_Is_Er_Was
A330 arrives in BNE QF Dom from SYD tomorrow then gets towed to BNE Intl to operate BNE-SIN shortly after. Qantas tows aircraft to/from Intl / Dom / Intl at BNE just about every day of the week. That's their scheduling choices. I imagine much the same happens in SYD. But they can't do that in PER?
Well, it’s a practice which is routinely causing large delays in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Particularly Sydney, where, like Perth, the jet has to be towed across an active runway. You can argue that it’s a result of scheduling or fleet choices, but I can still see why they’d like to avoid it if they can.