Seems like QF finally woke up.
Qantas 747s to fly Perth-Sydney - The West Australian
Qantas 747s to fly Perth-Sydney
Qantas is applying blow torch to Virgin Blue’s plans to snare some of the corporate market with a new business class product by introducing 747-400s on the Perth-Sydney route from May.
The new 747 service will leave Sydney at 10am for Perth and will depart Perth for Sydney at approximately 1pm.
The 747-400 will be in an international configuration with business class lie flat beds, premium economy and economy layout.
Virgin Blue will introduce a new business class product in May with its first two 300-seat A330s which will be dedicated to Perth services from Sydney and Melbourne.
Qantas will also announce today that it will reconfigure some of its A330s reducing the number of business class seats to a six across layout.
In December, Qantas re-introduced a business class layout on its A330s of seven across in a 2-3-2 setting.
The airline tried this when it first took delivery of the A330s eight years ago but pressure from corporate accounts saw it scraped.
Most Qantas A330s are still in the six across business class layout.
Qantas will also add another 1700 seats a week on its Brisbane-Perth route with an additional daily A330/767 service.