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I had a look at a few dates and the loads were appallingly low.
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Well when you look at dates ending in 2020...yeah, loads are gonna be low! 
What dates were you looking at amp? Wouldn't mind a quick visit to London, getting sloshed in J of course
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What dates were you looking at amp? Wouldn't mind a quick visit to London, getting sloshed in J of course
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Qantas Airways Ltd. (QAN), Australia’s largest carrier, said bookings for trips to Europe have gone up six-fold as its first flight in partnership with Emirates Airline took off today.
Bookings to Europe on the joint network in the first nine weeks of sales have risen six-fold from a year earlier, Alan Joyce, chief executive officer of Sydney-based Qantas, said today in an e-mailed statement
Bookings to Europe on the joint network in the first nine weeks of sales have risen six-fold from a year earlier, Alan Joyce, chief executive officer of Sydney-based Qantas, said today in an e-mailed statement
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Fuel off, nah mate,
not 2020 
I've checked a few at random over the last couple of days for travel next month between Dubai / LHR and return and some have over 300 hundred seats available.Some about 100. I'm sure there are good and bad days but the ones I have looked at are open. I'm sure it will build up if the word is good and the deals are OK.
Now I have no real idea whose metal (or plastic) the punters would be flying on but they have QF flt numbers.
not 2020 I've checked a few at random over the last couple of days for travel next month between Dubai / LHR and return and some have over 300 hundred seats available.Some about 100. I'm sure there are good and bad days but the ones I have looked at are open. I'm sure it will build up if the word is good and the deals are OK.Now I have no real idea whose metal (or plastic) the punters would be flying on but they have QF flt numbers.
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A 4 or 5 hour sit in Dubai at midnight to wait for an emirates connector doesn't sound appealing for me. London was always pretty full but now with the option to connect through with Emirates I wouldn't be surprised if the loads are lighter, either way its still early days, stuff has to bed down, wonder. If the will retime the QF flights though? And while they are at it put a flight on from Brissy, (dreaming) maybe a 787? Damn with all the other airlines out of Brissy these days surely an A380 daily would be nice......OK I just came out of my dream, SIA it is out of BNE from now on.... 
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Stuff about new Qantas routes coming through on Australian Business Traveller and Plane Talking I see.
Qantas tips first Boeing 787 routes: Beijing, Hong Kong, India - Flights | hotels | frequent flyer | business class - Australian Business Traveller
Qantas new route plans: reading between the lines | Plane Talking
Also a earlier critique on Plane Talkng.
Qantas takes off with Emirates, shrugs off former customers | Plane Talking
And the ACCC mystery docos?
What stuns me is that the interstate media in WA, SA and QLD seems to be taking the pineapple up the rectum as people say on this forum.
Qantas tips first Boeing 787 routes: Beijing, Hong Kong, India - Flights | hotels | frequent flyer | business class - Australian Business Traveller
Qantas new route plans: reading between the lines | Plane Talking
Issues arising? Given that Mumbai and Beijing non-stop have nothing to do with the the Dubai hub at the focus of the Emirates partnership what other new non-partnership routes might it be considering? And if they are not necessarily going to be flown with 787-9s, the only other jet suitable for those routes that Qantas can get its hands on which fits them efficiently would be A330-200s, since the future of its dwindling 747 fleet looks very short term for cost reasons if nothing else.
Qantas has lost most of is capacity to do the heavier maintenance that comes with aging jets, and the rest of the hemisphere has too, in that the MRO facilities available are far more attuned to newer jets, and as some have rather tartly noted, it shows.
Qantas has lost most of is capacity to do the heavier maintenance that comes with aging jets, and the rest of the hemisphere has too, in that the MRO facilities available are far more attuned to newer jets, and as some have rather tartly noted, it shows.
Qantas takes off with Emirates, shrugs off former customers | Plane Talking
Emirates doesn’t bring anything to Qantas. It takes from Qantas, perhaps more rapidly than it has in the past, and this time, it gets it for free.
Last week the ACCC rejected the core arguments Qantas made as to its international operations being a ‘failing business’ and related claims about cost disadvantages forcing it off various routes.
The ACCC came to those conclusions after calling for additional documentation from Qantas early this month, and it appeared to know exactly what it wanted to examine, even though there is no conceivable way that it will ever breach the confidentiality which is integral to its deliberations.
The ACCC came to those conclusions after calling for additional documentation from Qantas early this month, and it appeared to know exactly what it wanted to examine, even though there is no conceivable way that it will ever breach the confidentiality which is integral to its deliberations.
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Yeah I know but in the mega cramped 777's, maybe QF will do it one day....
Some of you on here have to accept that it's the customer who is going to benefit, they ultimately pay our salaries..and our careers live or die by their approval or otherwise, and this deal is awesome for the average Oz punter.
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I would suggest the people of QLD , WA and SA have already moved on to other carriers. They still have a major domestic presence of course and that is where the money is at present.
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did one DXB-PER trip where we had about a 50% load in Y, but J was 100% and F was 80%.
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Originally Posted by Direct Anywhere
If it's QF1/2 or 9/10 it's QF. Anything else is EK. That means almost everything
Point is, sales have increase by some 3-400% - that's customers booking "Qantas" to Europe.
So that's good for Qantas - since improved revenues will support the turn-around for Qantas International.
I know. I don't really give a rat's either way as I sit on more assigned leave and watch my career go down the pisser. The statement was in response to amp clamps question in post 289.
"Now I have no real idea whose metal (or plastic) the punters would be flying on but they have QF flt numbers."
"Now I have no real idea whose metal (or plastic) the punters would be flying on but they have QF flt numbers."
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Yeah it's not vitriol but you basically just justified my comment! Y class was half empty because it is a nightmare on the 777's! All we are asking is QF flights to Europe out of QLD, SA and WA, it's not that hard. Emirates is OK but it's still another middle eastern Airline, I'd rather fly on QF and even Delta round the other way. Well OK maybe not Delta...
As for the space in the 777 in Y, can't tell the difference in the seat between that and the 180... having flown as a pax in Y on both in the last 10 days, certainly the isle is wider in the 380..which makes a difference to some I guess.
My little girl prefers the 777 though...cos daddy drives them
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Originally Posted by Booglaboy
You can't have an International airline with zero destinations or airframes to support it. None of this is a 'turn-around' for Qf international