The 300 is a relic and that is my point and as we need more aircraft we shouldn’t be giving them away to other carriers.This puts us in a position where we are forced to use aircraft that should be in Longreach.
If Lowerlobe has been around for as long as he claims, he too is a relic. He should retire to Longreach with the other relics where he will be so much at home.
The possibility about taking aircraft off the LAX run was never mentioned by me
For once, Lowerlobe is right but....this idea was mentioned as a 'for example'. I repeat, from where does Qantas get the 744s to fly to Tokyo as has been suggested instead of 743's?
The distance from SYD to NRT is less than SYD to LAX and therefore IF you think about it a 400 could not do a LAX return in the same time as it does a NRT return
Again, he is right but.....is he aware that aircraft patterns on QF21 and QF22 flights are very inefficient? These aircraft operate Sydney/Tokyo overnight, sit all day on the ground in Tokyo and then operate overnight Tokyo/Sydney. Utilisation is very low. In this time, the same aeroplane could operate a round trip to LA and make a lot more money.
There's more to shuffling paper than there is to chucking food and trundling trollies. It really is time that Lowerlobe stuck to the very very limited, narrow field in which he may be "expert".