QLINK parking Q300s at Tamworth?

[Username here]

Just saw a photo from a mate in Tamworth on the "facepalm" with about five dash 8-300s parked on the grass/aprons at Tamworth...

What's the story? Parking aircraft can't be a good sign?

[Fonz121]

They might have to start parking 400's soon with the amount of crew leaving/trying to leave.

[rightinitial]

Leaving to go where exactly?

[captwawa]

Some of the younger guys have gone to Rex, others to the Orange people and a few retirements.

[TOGA Flex]

network F100

[MaxFL360]

rex? why go to rex from qlink? less pay isn't it as well as worse equiptment

[TOGA Flex]

Command prehaps?

[Horatio Leafblower]

rex? why go to rex from qlink? less pay isn't it as well as worse equiptment

Command within a lifetime?

[BNEA320]

know a few ports that could use q300s & they would also underwrite all flights.

In both nsw & Victoria

[Backtoscratch]

Rumour is that 3 of them are going to be sold. But it's an old rumour. Hopefully they'll be the more hateful SB registered a/c

[Going Nowhere]

SBB,SBJ,SBT,TQY,TQY all stored in TMW.

It would've been a handy idea to use one as a spare in ADL seeing as they've gone U/S quite a few days recently and delayed a few pax to/from WYA.

It's not like it's a new market that they're trying to get traction in or anything. Oh wait...

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Also a few on the hold file for Cobham and a few thinking of taking LWOP to leaving flying altogether for a year or two.
Massively short of Q400 FO's in BNE and CNS recently but that'll hopefully sort itself out when the Q300 pilots who are moving across go through the sim. Still an excess of pilots in the grand scheme of things but at the current rate they are leaving they may to looking in 2016.

[Backtoscratch]

From the flight trackers it looks like SBT, TQM, TQY and TQZ are the ones there....but all x 4 due back to SYD today at 11:am.....hmmmmm....something interesting going on.....

[Going Nowhere]

TQM is back to SYD ex maintenance.

All others are stored as per my previous post.

[TOGA Flex]

Maybe start hiring again in 2017 (hopefully) ??

[funnelweb]

Good place to park em, better than Avalon with it's salt air and sewerage works, they'll move on, so will the 400s; all good honest aircraft that have earnt their keep.

[BNEA320]

Can any of these Q300's be utilised in next few months or do they all require major checks ?


Ask, as we have some work for such aircraft for about 8-12 hours per week ex SYD.




Who precisely would you ask ?




If anyone knows can they PM us.

[Tidbinbilla]

Rather than messing around on here, why don't you google the company name and telephone them directly?

[BNEA320]

surely much MUCH quicker here than trying to phone & getting stuck at gatekeepers.

[Tidbinbilla]

Surely, if you're seriously interested in leasing one or more of those aircraft, and assuming they are stored due excess capacity - the 'gatekeeper' will put you through to the responsible person.

Here - I'll make it simple for you: 02 9691-2333

Now how about we get back on topic?

[Going Nowhere]

Plenty of Q300 crew in BNE. In fact enough on reserve to crew just about all of them.

It's what they were doing up until March...