As for Engineering coverage in OOL,
Me old mate Sniggih will be heading a well greased crew of 4 to help,
Sniggih will be a DMM,Sitting like Jabba the Hut behind a desk
2 x Leading Hands,Licking Jabba's drool
and 1 AME to do all the work.
It appears since his Time in BNE he hasn't managed to fill any of his seats on his train set,Apparently those BNE Lames are a bit tougher than the push overs up here in FNQ.
Watch out OOL Sniggih is on the way

Most of Virgins decisions are being made because they choose to make them. As always, all of QF's decisions are being made because they HAVE to, either as a result of being left behind or playing catch up because of bad decisions in the past.
I can't think of one idea to come out of the ivory towers in Mascot that even mildly resemble an original thought. To claim this announcement is them listening to their customers is as baffling as their latest advertising campaign.

Also had to laugh at the timing of the media huddle on the tarmac. What did the camera briefly zoom in on as the pudgy little Irishman revelled in self glory? A VA 737 rolling out behind him.

Remember, he was talking to 'management'. Thus, there would not have been an answer!:rolleyes:

1000 seats daily would be 3 flights up and back

6 x 168 = 1008.

I Know the say into, but hey, they've told fibs before! :E

lookleft, he didn't argue with the logic. He hoped that we would be more proactive in the future and that this was a good start.

QF are also advertising their return to OOL in the Melbourne Herald-Sun today which is a bit bizarre given the new flights are SYD-OOL and MEL-OOL remains JQ. Its all tied to some competition that you are eligible to win if you fly on a QF coded flight which for Melburnians means a JQ codeshare....the fineprint tells the true story!!!
:ugh:

Guys this has nothing to do with Qantas management or jet star. It's Emirates who are about to announce a whole range of code sharing on QF domestic. This as been a sticking point for over a year, Qantas have pushed code sharing on jetstar and Emirates have repeatedly said no. Now Qantas have given in so they have to return to some old ports so Emirates can gave a presence.
There will be organic growth for QF domestic and a continual shrinkage of QF international and jetstar international will struggle with QF putting PAXS on Emirates instead of Jetstar.

I'd have to go along with this prognosis. The only original plans this management have been able to come up with are to reduce sectors and the most original of all, shutting down the airline for a couple of days. What's old is new again?!?!

+1 for pondoklabu.

These clowns don't have the ability to do anything else.

Schedules now loaded and selling
 

:ok:

Service seems to commence 01NOV ex SYD at 0700, 1145 and 1635 with returns ex OOL at 0815, 1250 and 1740.

Yay that!! Can only help Surfer's Palestine recover from the gigantic shift in demographic that occurred when the full service Airline operations ceased.

Same goes for the Sunshine Coast. Many older connecting passengers out of regional areas, or bigger cities for that matter couldn't and still can't get their heads or bodies around changing carriers, collecting bags etc and went elswhere with their high disposable income only leaving the gap to be filled with the shallow end of the gene pool and Schoolies. Same thing really I guess.

Hence the trade moved from fine dining to pizzas and kebabs!

The locals will be beside themselves as well.

Now - where did I leave that fleet of green and gold F28s?????:sad:

Best all

EWL

Second hand info (not from management dude I was talking to yesterday) but apparently MEL-OOL is also on the agenda for a return by QF. :ok:

Quote: them listening to their customers is as baffling as their latest advertising campaign.


Absolute gold :D

As well as Hamo, and a stack of FIFO from the east coast. 15 additional airframes.

Back to hamilton would be brilliant! Really enjoy flying into that joint . No pun intended :-)

Yep Fantome - aahhhhh the roar of unhushed Speys!!! DAMMIT - another pair of undies ruined:O

Unfortunately much of the old team has been melted down for teaspoons, Hyundais

The days of the majority of the capacity SYD OOL having a green belly are gone but I am so chuffed the Rat is back into OOL. It puts it back on my radar as a holiday spot.

MCY as I said would benefit, and Hammo definitely could use their presence. I have had numerous clients go up and over CNS to pick up the Dash to avoid (sorry DJ & JQ people) the LCCs - even the LCCs aiming at psuedo lecacy status. Starting a premium holiday on a LCC is bad, but finishing it on one is worse. My higher end clients reflect that and have just been going somewhere else. Hayman and JQ unfortunately do not sit in the same sentence nicely. Your high end client coming from overseas is not going to be chuffed with the seating, despite the best efforts of the cabin crew, which by all accounts from clients has improved immesuarably over the last 18 months.

Impressed however that DJ goes live in Sabre in October. That makes them very much easier to sell.

Overall, a rollback of stupid decisons that should be embraced.

I know my staff and I will be offering the QF all the way option ex DPO and look forward to MEL OOL restarting.

Sort of like bringing back the old TN488/489. Anyone got a spare B727-276????:D:D That would make all right with the world.

Best all

EWL

stallboy

QANTAS has looked at them in the past, and that's where they're staying. In the past. More of the old domestic "holiday" destinations will slowly return to the fold. International will be left to dry.

Here's a thought...

By increasing capacity into both OOL and MCY, QF doesn't need to grow capacity through the clusterf*ck that is BNE airport these days. Those delays must be starting to hurt.

I'm sure plenty of people north and south of Brisbane drive to BNE to get on a red tail, I know I do if holidaying in Noosa or on the Gold Coast.

Emirates Domestic (Aust) .

If QF need to bring back more domestic red-tail routes maybe they need to lower the cost base of the mainline operation...maybe using Eastern/Sunstate to fly red-tail A320s would solve the problem...:rolleyes: