EK380 Brisbane services announced.

[Fruitcake]

markis10's prophecy fulfilled. And with AKL tag-ons to boot.

Brisbane gets 4 Emirates A380 flights daily from October | Plane Talking

16 May 2013, Brisbane, Australia: Queenslanders will have the opportunity to experience the state of the art Airbus A380 aircraft for the first time with the announcement that Emirates will operate flights EK434 and EK435 between Auckland, Brisbane and Dubai on the new aircraft from 2 October 2013.

 

[markis10]

Re: New Zealand approves EK/QF tie up trans tasman for 5 years

Tag flights are surprising, thats more capacity on the tasman, wonder how Jetconnect will fare?

 

[Deleted member]

Re: New Zealand approves EK/QF tie up trans tasman for 5 years

I presume they will also be code share flights?

 

[albatross710]

markis10's prophecy fulfilled. And with AKL tag-ons to boot.

Brisbane gets 4 Emirates A380 flights daily from October | Plane Talking

That's got to be good news for lower cost flights to NZ.

For the numbers gurus on the forum what does this do to the total capacity on the route. I'm hoping that trying to fill those extra 1,848 seats a week might lead to tactical discounting.

I'm wondering how SQ will respond. Their three A330 services a day provide excellent flexibility into Europe. But people wil be excited to travel on a nice EK A380.

 

[kamchatsky]

At this rate, sooner or later EK will also do ADL/PER - AKL as well with QF code sharing it.

 

[casanovawa]

Well PER airport just needs to get its act into gear to provide the facilities for A380 operations and then we should get an EK A380 that we would waiting till hell froze over for a QF one, and then yes, a tag going onto NZ would be good...

How much more do these guys have their act together than QF!!!!

 

[moa999]

Does Perth have a long enough layover for a NZ flight?

 

[richie9x]

So does that mean there will be three A380s at AKL at the same time each day? Normally gates 15 and 16 are used for A380s I wonder how they will handle a third? Also the Emirates lounge already gets pretty packed at AKL at the moment. I guess now there is an option of overflowing to the Qantas lounge.

 

[Major]

Flights on 3rd Oct from BNE-AKL are still showing as a 773-ER on the EK website. I hope they change this soon

 

[docjames]

markis10's prophecy fulfilled. And with AKL tag-ons to boot.

Brisbane gets 4 Emirates A380 flights daily from October | Plane Talking

The "4" is somewhat misleading - it's 2 arrivals and 2 departures - one would typically count that as two. And it's only one aircraft on the ground at a time.

Still, "Plane Talking" can be somewhat misleading.....

 

[Fruitcake]

So does that mean there will be three A380s at AKL at the same time each day?

All 3 are scheduled to arrive within 30 minutes (EK406 at 1345, EK412 at 1400 and EK434 at 1415). Sounds like a good workout for AKL immigration.

 

[docjames]

So does that mean there will be three A380s at AKL at the same time each day? Normally gates 15 and 16 are used for A380s I wonder how they will handle a third? Also the Emirates lounge already gets pretty packed at AKL at the moment. I guess now there is an option of overflowing to the Qantas lounge.

Not the most reliable source of all time, but the wiki suggests there are only 2 gates A380 capable (double deck).

Wonder how this will be managed? Maybe single deck boarding/deplaning for one of the flights?

 

[markis10]

Not the most reliable source of all time, but the wiki suggests there are only 2 gates A380 capable (double deck).

Wonder how this will be managed? Maybe single deck boarding/deplaning for one of the flights?

Or a retiming of the other flights.

 

[Major]

All 3 are scheduled to arrive within 30 minutes (EK406 at 1345, EK412 at 1400 and EK434 at 1415). Sounds like a good workout for AKL immigration.

It's also a good workout for the EK lounge at the departure end of the day, again with all 3 flights leaving within about 30 min.

I have always managed to find a seat though, and there is always sufficient chilled Veuve available

 

[docjames]

Or a retiming of the other flights.

Yes, although there will presumably be a limit based on the MEL,SYD,BNE legs back to DXB and their arrival times into DXB.

If the overlap is not great enough, a delay will also cause problems with deplaning if one is boarding and the other has not departed when the third arrives.

Will be interesting to see how they handle this.

 

[futaris]

EK433 and EK435 now has availability in First from Brisbane, using QFF...

 

[samh004]

EK433 and EK435 now has availability in First from Brisbane, using QFF...

Nice!

Can't wait to try them out next year

 

[lovestotravel]

It's also a good workout for the EK lounge at the departure end of the day, again with all 3 flights leaving within about 30 min.

I have always managed to find a seat though, and there is always sufficient chilled Veuve available

The EK lounge is pretty stretched as you have said already!

 

[Mwenenzi]

All 3 are scheduled to arrive within 30 minutes (EK406 at 1345, EK412 at 1400 and EK434 at 1415). Sounds like a good workout for AKL immigration.

But only if EK/QF sell the seats. Would not surprise me to see a reduction in QF metal trans Tasman, but with QF/EK seat capacity the same or even increase (to comply with the recent regulatory approval)

 

[Must...Fly!]

Suspect some AKL QF services will go by the wayside, but they may see more traffic to WLG, ZQN and CHC as pax step off EK and on to QF, if their final destination is one of those cities.

That said I doubt it will offset any QF losses. In addition I can't see this being helpful to the Qantas Freight 767.