Auckland to New York Qantas
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Auckland to New York Qantas
As part of the financial results today it was announced a new route Auckland to New York on the 787 commencing in 2023. It also said the flights are timed to connect to Australian desinations. Will this go Auckland direct to NYC like Air NZ or are they talking NZ to OZ to connect to an international service?
Not exactly earth shattering, they were flying AKL-LAX years ago.
Must be when the next slate of 78s are due to arrive.
Must be when the next slate of 78s are due to arrive.
As part of the financial results today it was announced a new route Auckland to New York on the 787 commencing in 2023. It also said the flights are timed to connect to Australian desinations. Will this go Auckland direct to NYC like Air NZ or are they talking NZ to OZ to connect to an international service?
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QF are forced to have a crack at this because they dilly dallied with their A350 Sunrise clickbait propaganda. If they got their A350s when they were supposed to, the travelling Australian public would be bypassing NZ all together en route the NYC.
AirNz are a good product (better is debatable) and AKL is much better than JFK. QF had to react on that route.
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Fuel capacity
I imagine the route has been planned via AKL due to range issues when flying westbound against the prevailing winds. Northbound is not so much of an issue provided holding times are reasonable at JFK.
short flights long nights
Foran is dumping all the Kiwi ‘innovations’ in bizarre product design and is going with the more conventional German options starting in a few years.
When QF101/100 used to operate to LAX it was always full, often oversold every night. It was a very popular option. Albeit it was the same aeroplane all the way through from MEL but for MEL-LAX traffic it cut out the side-show at SYD and usual inevitable aircraft change and was two reasonable sized sectors and not one short one then 14-15 hours.
Seems to be an option worth considering, especially if there are reasonable connections to a range of Australian and New Zealand cities or easy and reasonable stop-over arrangements. I recall that ANZ briefly operated AKL-SYD-LAX.
Probably some truth to this however I’d imagine the savings using NZ CC would be minimal in the grand scheme of things. All of the b789s have CC rest facilities. No sleeping on seat.
inb4 Qantas sell the crew rest bunks to passengers and then make the crew sleep over lower yielding economy seats
When QF101/100 used to operate to LAX it was always full, often oversold every night. It was a very popular option. Albeit it was the same aeroplane all the way through from MEL but for MEL-LAX traffic it cut out the side-show at SYD and usual inevitable aircraft change and was two reasonable sized sectors and not one short one then 14-15 hours.
The 'genius' of silo-ing departments…...
quantas will spend a dollar to save a cent, the costs involved in hiring nz crew flying and housing them in syd for training, sending managers over to 'setup and oversee' operations, all to shaft the australian crew. good jolly's for the execs though, need to visit there troop's overseas often for photo op's and yammer post's