ALL QF's 330's to get lay flat Business seating - Including Domestic

[RichardMEL]

Some lucky people on 3-Jan SYD/MEL turns

yes I was considering it, but given the changes thus far I'm wary so think will leave be

 

[ChrisCunard]

Would all flights that EBV is planning to fly be in the system on Qantas.com now or is it only scheduled up to Jan 11?

Got segments in Jan, March, April on 332's so curious if floor plans will change.

 

[V1213]

Would all flights that EBV is planning to fly be in the system on Qantas.com now or is it only scheduled up to Jan 11?

I've got a sector in March that's showing the new config. I had a quick look at other flights on the same date and it looks as though only one aircraft's worth of flying is currently programmed for that day in March, although in reality 3 or so planes in the new config should be operating by then. Therefore I'm assuming they've only loaded EBV's planned flights for now, with the subsequent planes planned operations being updated as they're nearing completion of the reconfig.

 

[ChrisCunard]

Is there any way to know where EBV is on 11 or 12 Feb?

 

[mannej]

Is there any way to know where EBV is on 11 or 12 Feb?

This far out I'd imagine that this would be subject to some variation.

 

[ChrisCunard]

What would be the furthest out we can "reliably" see for EBV?

 

[moa999]

At the moment I would say you cant, even the start date has shifted at least once

 

[ChrisCunard]

A quick call to the wonderful Wendy on 131313 and it's done*



*Subject to aircraft change.

 

[Nizar]

QF35 in mid-August should be a safe bet for the new config ?

 

[Awesom Andy]

QF35 in mid-August should be a safe bet for the new config ?

Wouldn't bet on it. At that time, it would be a mix of new and old, so it might even be travel date dependent.

 

[V1213]

Tomorrow's QF6111 BNE-SYD has been deferred to the 30th and re-timed to 6pm - I suspect that'll be planned as a media scrum.

Here is the latest planned flying for VH-EBV

VH-EBV Aircraft Movements as at 23 December 2014

31-Dec-14 QF575 SYD 8:10 PER 10:10
31-Dec-14 QF580 PER 11:10 SYD 18:20
31-Dec-14 QF583 SYD 19:30 PER 21:30
31-Dec-14 QF648 PER 23:40 MEL 6:15

Well it's past 19:00 in Brisbane and still no sign of VH-EBV emerging.
I note that QF575 tomorrow is now scheduled to be operated by a regular config aircraft, although QF583 is still showing as the new config. I'm assuming the plan is to fly her down to Sydney tomorrow midday/early afternoon instead of tonight.

Can Qantas just scrape the introduction into the last dying hours of 2014? If VH-EBV does launch the new product on QF583 it'll be 2015 in Sydney by the time the plane lands in Perth!

 

[Melburnian1]

It's early days but is there any indication yet when the first refurbished one will commence flying to CGK, MNL and PVG ex SYD, and if so how often? Or will these routes be the last to receive the 'international cloth covered seating' variant?

 

[moa999]

Nothing published about international rollout,
Although MEL/SYD-SIN appears first up.

I suspect they will dedicate aircraft to SIN first then HKG, PVG, CGK and MNL will be late on the rollout, with maybe HNL last (given it was last with 767s and has limited competition)

 

[ajw373]

Nothing published about international rollout,
Although MEL/SYD-SIN appears first up.

I suspect they will dedicate aircraft to SIN first then HKG, PVG, CGK and MNL will be late on the rollout, with maybe HNL last (given it was last with 767s and has limited competition)

Realistically though they may be able to dedicate a sub-fleet to the MEL/SYD-SIN routes, but will be much harder with the other routes. So my guess is X-SIN first then the rest will be luck of the draw. Though CGK maybe a slight exception as it is seeing more 332's these days (except the last week where 333's operated 3 of the 4 services)

 

[Princess Fiona]

Well it's past 19:00 in Brisbane and still no sign of VH-EBV emerging.
I note that QF575 tomorrow is now scheduled to be operated by a regular config aircraft, although QF583 is still showing as the new config. I'm assuming the plan is to fly her down to Sydney tomorrow midday/early afternoon instead of tonight.

Can Qantas just scrape the introduction into the last dying hours of 2014? If VH-EBV does launch the new product on QF583 it'll be 2015 in Sydney by the time the plane lands in Perth!

I believe at this stage it's going to be QF571 at 1730

 

[serfty]

Well it's past 19:00 in Brisbane and still no sign of VH-EBV emerging. ...

As per Princess Fiona's post, QF571 is currently scheduled tomorrow evening.

It would see in the new year at PER before flying to MEL mid morning.

Here are the current schedules up to Saturday - these are subject to change.

EBV 332

31/12/14

QF571  SYD 1730 PER 1930

01/01/15

QF772  PER 0930 MEL 1605
QF773  MEL 1705 PER 1810
QF568  PER 2305 SYD 0615

02/01/15

QF575  SYD 0810 PER 1010
QF580  PER 1110 SYD 1820
QF583  SYD 1930 PER 2130
QF648  PER 2340 MEL 0615

03/01/15

QF412  MEL 0730 SYD 0855
QF423  SYD 1000 MEL 1135
QF434  MEL 1300 SYD 1425
QF447  SYD 1600 MEL 1735

 

[serfty]

It looks like it's finally going out - yesterday the positioning(/Bunfight?) flight was rescheduled from last evening to 2pm today. This morning that was brought forward an hour to 1pm giving them about 2 hours at SYD to set up, promote, load PAX and take off ...

 

[V1213]

It looks like it's finally going out - yesterday the positioning(/Bunfight?) flight was rescheduled from last evening to 2pm today. This morning that was brought forward an hour to 1pm giving them about 2 hours at SYD to set up, promote, load PAX and take off ...

Still no sign of departure from BNE.
Interestingly the BNE website is showing QF6111 that was scheduled at 18:00 yesterday as "Delayed" until 13:00 today, as well as showing a QF6114 flight to SYD scheduled for 13:00 today as "Cancelled".
Expert Flyer is still showing QF571 as the new config...

 

[serfty]

QF6111 was showing on flightaware as departing 1310 ... 45 minutes ago.

Recent update ...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/QFA6111-1419992165-fds-0076

 

[drpurpleturtle]

It's supposedly delayed till 1:55pm AEST (which is now) arriving at SYD at 3:50pm AEDT. So that'll be 1hr 40mins at Sydney only. Don't think there'll be much promotion time left!

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA6111/history/20141231/0300Z/YBBN/YSSY