Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

[madrooster]

Finnair, including the wet lease, has been covered in a new Mentour Now! video. It would appear that the AY crews operating the QF flights are rotated between Finland and Australia via BKK. They have 9 day trips HEL-BKK-SYD-SIN-SYD-BKK-HEL.
If AY are having crew problems, then it would make sense for them to ask to reduce to 1 of the routes and shorten the trip time by dropping the SYD-SIN-SYD rotation.

Before BKK started, the tech crew were doing HEL-SIN-SYD-SIN-HEL. I would've thought they'd do the same with BKK, ie. HEL-BKK-SYD-BKK-HEL.

The cabin crew are from the respective SIN and BKK bases so each SYD trip is a new trip for them.

 

[N860CR]

Before BKK started, the tech crew were doing HEL-SIN-SYD-SIN-HEL. I would've thought they'd do the same with BKK, ie. HEL-BKK-SYD-BKK-HEL.

The cabin crew are from the respective SIN and BKK bases so each SYD trip is a new trip for them.

I believe the crew position on the HEL-BKK-HEL sectors, so it’s pretty unproductive to do just the one Australia trip.

The sooner Qantas get this in house the better.

 

[madrooster]

I believe the crew position on the HEL-BKK-HEL sectors, so it’s pretty unproductive to do just the one Australia trip.

AY tech crew are dual rated on the A330 and A350 unlike Aussie tech crew who are rated on one type only. Hence they operate ex-HEL to BKK or SIN, then after 2 nights, onwards to SYD and back.

 

[jpp42]

I believe the crew position on the HEL-BKK-HEL sectors, so it’s pretty unproductive to do just the one Australia trip.

Presumably this is to get around Singapore labour laws? Singapore can't stop them from working sectors of a longer overall trip that route through SIN, but if they were just doing SIN-SYD return over and over again, they'd be required to be domiciled in SIN and classified as Singaporean employees. Jetstar has done some similar shenanigans with Thai based crew.