Originally Posted by
morno
The new toy is doing MEL-BNE to parade it around and say “look, we bought a new aeroplane!”. I have no doubt when the XLR’s arrive they’ll be paraded around too.
No, it’s flying MEL - BNE because at those particular times the load suits a 140 seat aircraft rather than a 170 seat one. It’s been flying around showing off for 2 months now. Like it or not a subsidiary is now flying MEL-SYD and MEL-BNE as regular routes (to be fair to the Pilots it not their fault, from what I’ve heard they’d rather be doing ASP-DRW and CNS-AYQ).