717 Back to Tasmania
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717 Back to Tasmania
Looks like from 31 March that NJS is bringing back the 717 for a swansong on their Tasmania playground of HBA-MEL, HBA-SYD, LST-MEL and LST-SYD, where they have plied many a path over three decades for VQ, JQ, and various QantasLink incarnations.
On HBA-MEL, they replace the existing 73H one for one (four daily), on LST-MEL they replace two daily of the four DH3 (leaving two daily DH3), on LST-SYD they replace the single daily E90 that had been scheduled to take-over from 31 March (but won't just yet, evidently), and on HBA-SYD they replace the three daily 73H on just two of those services per week.
Still no 223 schedules showing for CBR-MEL, but four per day 717 remain — must need a few more training runs to iron-out the last bugs in the 223!
On HBA-MEL, they replace the existing 73H one for one (four daily), on LST-MEL they replace two daily of the four DH3 (leaving two daily DH3), on LST-SYD they replace the single daily E90 that had been scheduled to take-over from 31 March (but won't just yet, evidently), and on HBA-SYD they replace the three daily 73H on just two of those services per week.
Still no 223 schedules showing for CBR-MEL, but four per day 717 remain — must need a few more training runs to iron-out the last bugs in the 223!
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Correct: One QF mainline 73H and one NJS 717 overnight; but from 31 March, instead of the 73H flying first-wave to MEL and the 717 to SYD, the 73H flys to SYD and the 717 to MEL.
Correct: The 717 and 73H have been sharing the HBA-SYD sectors, whereas the 73H exclusively has been flying all HBA-MEL sectors. But the plan (as indicated by the available flights) had been for the remaining 717 HBA-SYD to be replaced entirely by 73H from 31 March, leaving no 717 flying to HBA. Instead, the 717 appears to stay; it replaces all 73H flying on HBA-MEL, and just two per week 717 will remain on HBA-SYD, the other 17 per week as 73H.
Turns out QF (excluding JQ) has scheduled more seats per week on HBA-SYD than on HBA-MEL, unless some new 223 runs appear ...
Correct: One QF mainline 73H and one NJS 717 overnight; but from 31 March, instead of the 73H flying first-wave to MEL and the 717 to SYD, the 73H flys to SYD and the 717 to MEL.
Turns out QF (excluding JQ) has scheduled more seats per week on HBA-SYD than on HBA-MEL, unless some new 223 runs appear ...
