Originally Posted by
aviation_enthus
Biggest bases are Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Therefore every second leg is out of a capital city airport, from remote stands, subject to ATC delays, etc. Plus Sydney is by far the biggest network yet they still manage to maintain high OTP....
Somehow I think they’ll be ok dealing with a SYD-MEL schedule. Despite your obvious wish to see them fail...
Virgin and QF can manage the older NGs by swapping out with others if they go AOG. They have room in the schedule when these things happen, most of the time. Which in turn maintains some form of customer reliability. Rex, like Tiger won’t have that ability. Which is why Tiger Management decided to move away from the old NGs and stick to conversions 10 years and younger.
How long can these NGs go on for? Boeing reckons 25 years until they will start looking at converting to freighters. They are on the home stretch right now. Looking at engineering papers, these early 00 builds, I think another 5 years is all they have left.