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All Asian based LCCs airlines have poor form with Darwin. Tiger Singapore back in the day came and went, AirAsia have come and gone before, Jetstar Asia likewise. DRW is a high cost airport probably not helping.

Accomodation in Melbourne for the rest of this week and into next is super pricey due to F1, certainly feel for those poor people who are stuck. Melbourne also seems to have the most crew stuck with 10 aircraft currently parked. That’s a lot of hotel rooms!

Appears so. Fairly pointless frequency at 3/week with QF already daily, and the SQ Group 6 daily. MEL-SIN appears to be getting scaled back to 4 weekly also .

Abu Dhabi is covering the costs for any extended stays past check out for guests. Top Notch!

Very surprised not a red eye!

Looks like it’s now returning alongside the other MEL-DOH flight within the vicinity. EY461 is over South Australia still deciding it seems!

BNE/MEL/PER-Doha flights only a few hours in, are returning back.

UAE now closed. Safe to say the whole area will grind to a halt with missiles reported intercepted in Doha, explosions on US base in Bahrain and now missiles have just been intercepted above Abu Dhabi in the past few minutes. Be a few jets parked up down under for a few days it seems.

Qatar airspace now closed.

Trump has released a statement via his Truth Social in the prior minutes. A major combat operation is underway.

At the FY they said debt financing was likely the option with very attractive rates coming out of Japan.

Interesting they are pulling them at the end of the FY but holding them until the lease expires. I wonder how long that is, explains why they have sort of stretched out the retirement. An operating lease is often 10 years which corresponds which a heavy check, so these three being 2006 builds...

As per the presentation seems to be many one-off costs. Engineering, EIS Costs, Wage provisions and some other related costs. International will likely start performing strongly when they get all these International configured XLRs and obviously Sunrise. The International segment is about to...

JB, which aircraft autopilot handled the crosswind/gusty/high wind approaches better. Airbus or Boeing? And any specific model?

Not after seeing all these A330 engineering challenges. I’d expect SYD-DPS and transcon flying to move away from the 330 while they try and free up some spare hours. I have suspicions that Joyce didn’t want XLRs with IFE or flat beds, ie the current model is what he planned for international...

I think it’s only a matter of time before they need to pull the A330 off SYD-DPS to sort out some of the fleet issues. A321 it is.

Even in Y you would be better off refunding and opting for PR. Having a look they appear to be 20-50% cheaper on many days.

That’s a pretty uncompetitive product against the PR A321 but I guess they are desperate.

What’s the exit option here? They can’t bank it as profits as the media and politicians already went them over that. 2030 onwards perhaps donate it to some company aligned charity? Donate it to the Great Barrier Reef?

Reports elsewhere that the XLR is taking over BNE-MNL later this year.