Remember when?

[bsb]

Saw this today on another post and it got me thinking of how different things are today from 1986

 

[Gremlin]

I look at ticket prices and I'm reminded how similar things are to 1986.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I look at ticket prices and I'm reminded how similar things are to 1986.

Or even cheaper SYD/AKL return fares were AUD599.00/699.00/799.00 for low shoulder and high season respectively.

 

[Foreigner]

Tahiti seems out of place?

 

[Melburnian1]

Others will disagree due to presence of lossmaking MH and (claimed) profitable D7 but I remain surprised that QF in 2016 does not fly nonstop from Oz east coast to KUL.

It still does not fly daily to expanding MNL, one of the top 10 cities by population in the world.

It is also amazing how much the QFi route network out of Perth has shrunk given Perth's growth since then population-wise and (despite the recent drop in prices of commodities) in its economy. I doubt that many who have visited PER from overseas would have a negative view of it: a beautiful city capped off by beaches and King's Park, plus the history of Fremantle.

Harare was another possibly 'out of place' in 1986. Incomprehensible now that an Oz airline would fly there.

 

[burmans]

Tahiti seems out of place?

Just slightly!

 

[Mattg]

Look at all those QF flights from Perth!

 

[Foreigner]

CNS-HNL and BOM-LHR too

 

[Boca68]

CNS-HNL and BOM-LHR too

I did SYD-BOM-LHR many years ago. Think it was actually 1986 from memory? Actually spent a great 24 hours or so in BOM

 

[casanovawa]

Others will disagree due to presence of lossmaking MH and (claimed) profitable D7 but I remain surprised that QF in 2016 does not fly nonstop from Oz east coast to KUL.

It still does not fly daily to expanding MNL, one of the top 10 cities by population in the world.

It is also amazing how much the QFi route network out of Perth has shrunk given Perth's growth since then population-wise and (despite the recent drop in prices of commodities) in its economy. I doubt that many who have visited PER from overseas would have a negative view of it: a beautiful city capped off by beaches and King's Park, plus the history of Fremantle.

Harare was another possibly 'out of place' in 1986. Incomprehensible now that an Oz airline would fly there.

Did South Africa have an apartheid ban on it at the time and so that was why they flew to Harare instead? But yes, a basket place they'd never think of flying to today...

Very sad about QF's abandonment internationally of Perth, plenty of other airlines have stepped in seeing the opportunity, obviously something QF either couldn't or wouldn't invest in maintaining or recapturing...

As for flights to KUL/MNL, you would hope someone has crunched the numbers and just found from a business/leisure point of view the MH flights take most of the high paying traffic and Air Aisa most of the cheapy leisure stuff and that their isn't a buck to be made there... Can't put it past QF to just be short sighted in not flying to another One World hub...

With some of their problem's behind them it would be nice if they could start expanding the route map, but not sure if QF management are quite capable of seeing the opportunities...

 

[Deleted member 29185]

1986 was the exact year for my very first international flight. I was in Amsterdam when Chernobyl blew up.......a bit disconcerting when the nuclear alarms were sounding and nobody knew from where the radiation was coming and the newspapers were advising not to drink milk or eat fresh fruit or veges (no real drama for me as I was mostly in an underground R&B bar or sleeping it off in a boatel bunk). The two friends I went with still rib me about looking under my seat on our London to Vancouver flight. They said to me "what are you doing" when they noticed me rumaging around under my window seat. I replied with a single sentence, "looking for bombs". (it was not long after the TWA incident where a couple of pax ended up in a German field).

 

[kelvedon]

Did South Africa have an apartheid ban on it at the time and so that was why they flew to Harare instead? But yes, a basket place they'd never think of flying to today...

Yes the Harare flights were to circumvent the South Africa issue. Did QF fly from LHR to MAN as an add on flight?

 

[dajop]

All very well to look at the past with nostalgic rose coloured glasses - but a route map says nothing about frequencies. It would be interesting to see what the frequencies were too . It is also easy to forget that some of the more exotic places that QF used to travel to were fuelling stops, and that EY, QR and EK didn't exist prior to 1986, nor did SQ or CX offer the sorts of frequencies they so no (on the flip side populations have increased as have the proportion of the population travelling internationally - in many countries.