First Qantas A380 returns Tuesday November 9

[Going Boeing]

Originally Posted by White Knight

It won’t be significantly different at all. Airport terminals and flights in the now open parts of the globe are choc-a-bloc!

In my post, the difference that I meant was that the airlines will transition to Point to Point operations and move away from the Hub & Spoke system used in the past.

[Sultan Ismail]

Short Haul A380 Ops

Singapore have already started twice daily flights to Kuala Lumpur with a flight time of 45 minutes, and a block time of 1 hour and 5 minutes.

[cessnapete]

BA started A380 schedule service today. Replaced A320 on Frankfurt rotations for crew recency. Dubai and USA in a week or so.

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by Sultan Ismail

Singapore have already started twice daily flights to Kuala Lumpur with a flight time of 45 minutes, and a block time of 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Singapore has long used big aircraft on that short route - for a long time they used a 777. It showed up in the stats as a very high cycle 777 (especially compared with those that averaged 8-10 hour cycles).

[unobtanium]

Celebrations happening soon, patting themselves in the back for flying an empty a380 around the world to save costs.

[Roj approved]

Originally Posted by unobtanium

Celebrations happening soon, patting themselves in the back for flying an empty a380 around the world to save costs.

hahahahahahahaha, Gold

[TWT]

ETA of OQB is approx 1500 AEDT

[Chris2303]

Originally Posted by unobtanium

Celebrations happening soon, patting themselves in the back for flying an empty a380 around the world to save costs.

Greta will be very angry!

[morno]

Originally Posted by Taildragger67

... except for all the crew who were shown the door last year.

You mean those who took VOLUNTARY redundancy?

I’m sure they’re enjoying retirement.

[Street garbage]

Originally Posted by Taildragger67

... except for all the crew who were shown the door last year.

Exactly how many crew were made CR? Is that you Telfer?

[itsnotthatbloodyhard]

Originally Posted by Chris2303

Greta will be very angry!

Greta is always very angry.

[blubak]

Originally Posted by unobtanium

Celebrations happening soon, patting themselves in the back for flying an empty a380 around the world to save costs.

Its a good news story,it shows how much we care for our people!

[SOPS]

Originally Posted by Chris2303

Greta will be very angry!

Until we live in caves again, eating lentils and using God only knows what to warm our cave at night….. Greta will remain furious.

[Bull at a Gate]

Lovely sight over Sydney Harbour mid afternoon. Made me very happy! Another sign of life returning to normal.

[nivsy]

Originally Posted by itsnotthatbloodyhard

Greta is always very angry.

She should be angry about some flights for COP 26 flying between Glasgow Int and Glasgow Prestwick airport .(exec jets and wide bodies) .a distance of about 20 mins flying or less....funnily enough while in the city she never seemed to mention that one unless I missed it.

[White Knight]

Originally Posted by Going Boeing

In my post, the difference that I meant was that the airlines will transition to Point to Point operations and move away from the Hub & Spoke system used in the past.

Again, I couldn't disagree more! Hub and Spoke is generally the cheaper option for both airline and passengers. It won't change!

[Transition Layer]

Originally Posted by SOPS

Until we live in caves again, eating lentils and using God only knows what to warm our cave at night….. Greta will remain furious.

You’ve already ticked off one of those items in WA thanks to your hero McGowan.

[nivsy]

Originally Posted by Transition Layer

You’ve already ticked off one of those items in WA thanks to your hero McGowan.

That will be the "eating of lentils" then.....🤭

[ScepticalOptomist]

Originally Posted by White Knight

Again, I couldn't disagree more! Hub and Spoke is generally the cheaper option for both airline and passengers. It won't change!

Depends which part of the world
you’re in.

Australia would benefit from a mix of both, using Asia as a stopover is popular. Bypassing the Middle East is also very popular. Direct New York / Chicago also highly sought after.

QANTAS know they can charge a premium for a direct service.

[unobtanium]

Originally Posted by ScepticalOptomist

Depends which part of the world
you’re in.

Australia would benefit from a mix of both, using Asia as a stopover is popular. Bypassing the Middle East is also very popular. Direct New York / Chicago also highly sought after.

QANTAS know they can charge a premium for a direct service.

Bypassing Sydney will be awesome too, who wants to fly into a sheethole of sydney airport after a long flight