V Australia commenced BNE-LAX today
 

Howdy anyone know loadings out of YBBN ,i hope they do well.

Cheers.:ok:

They are giving 2 x daily tickets on one of the radio stations every day currently! Be interesting because apparently QF currently occasionally cancel their BNE-LAX and send the pax to SYD due to poor loads.

Hopefully QF will cancel all their flights BNE-LAX, and let "V" take up the reins,
I've had a gutfull of the whining from QF over the years and how hard they are done by, may "V" live long and prosper.:)

I seem to remember VB management sprouting how hard they were done by too.

Yeah maybe, but after Ansett collapsed they both got the free kick of a life time like no other.:sad:

QF have nevered cancelled the flight, It use to not operate on Tuesdays or Thursday due to PLANNED maintenance probably 6 months.

You need to get some facts instead of making comments like this.

Then mayby Qantas should not advertise they have a daily flight then ???

I believe V Oz are 90-95% loads out of here.

90-95% is pretty good...for the first flight :rolleyes:

As BNE is VAs home TOWN it should spark with locals more so than SYD, or MEL will.

ehh, actually Sydney is VA's home town. Know what you mean though and I think you're right. Rednecks love flying red airplanes!!

Mikeb744

It is you who needs to get YOUR facts straight. On a number of occasions QF have cancelled BNE LAX flights due to only having approx 70 pax booked. Also they operate 6 days a week BNE LAX not 2 as ststed. That was about 18 months ago.

I would also love to believe that they were like this :eek:

Unless you give us more details about where heard the loads from, I aint going with those facts, Sydney is getting 45%-Brisbane double now:hmm::hmm::hmm:

I really wish them well. But the fact that they are offering BNE-LAX-BNE for A$777 for the balance of April (not all flights of course) indicates how tough the market conditions are.

Since you have the inside information on QF loads, then tell us all what the loads were on the LAX BNE sectors of those cancelled BNE LAX flights with only 70 pax, and what they did with them?

And it is going to get a whole lot tougher in July...

Delta Strengthens Los Angeles Gateway with New Nonstop Flights to Sydney, Sao Paulo, Increased Service to New York:Delta Newsroom

The outbound loads from OZ seem to be doing pretty well, in QF's case. The inbound however....:confused:

Delta is now VAs interline to all it's network especially NY for Australians.

kotoyebe

It was a simple solution for QF. Send them to SYD and onto a SYD LAX flight. The return is the same solution LAX SYD BNE. With 3 flights a day ex LAX to SYD it is just the sensible thing to do. Why burn over 100 tons of fuel for 70 pax.

Hoboe and all, FYI - the DELTA press release announcing Delta's intention to fly to Sydney is dated in December 2008. So it's hardly NEWS, but more importantly - published well before the interline agreement between VA and Delta was announced. Delta is now oncarrying pax for VA and there will be 2 daily VA flights between SYD & LAX, its just that one of them will say Delta on the outside of the aircraft (& the FA's may be on average a few years older and lack the Virgin flair;-)) I reckon Qantas are soon gonna wish that Singapore Airlines got the route rather than the Branson flying circus...

Consolidating flights due lack of capacity perhaps.

Disruptions last year on the QF 744 as a result of:

a. QF enginerring industrial dispute.
b. Aircraft in Manila with the oxy bottle incident.
c. Aircraft in Avalon after the towing incident.

I stand to be corrected, but cancelling or consolidating services due the above perhaps, but as to low pax loads? When did such ocurr?