New Qantas route - Perth to Paris from July 2024

[hutch]

Actually we can make an educated guess at it

The 20% extra premium pricing for non-stop flights
The flight loadings
The fare price points for each cabin
The classic reward category
The anecdotal evidence of LHR & Perth lounge volumes

the overall Profit picture plus the ever ballooning RRIA

And if all things remained the same, I would agree with you.

But things won't stay the same, as bigger markets will have direct flights and a portion of passengers using the PER flights are coming from the east coast. This may have impacts on loadings which may impact on your other points.

QF will also need to decide to what markets they will serve London from (and indeed what to use their ULR's). They have four slots - assuming they get their two leased slots back. They also said they would keep a flight to LHR via SIN. That's a lot of extra capacity... Something may have to give.

At the end of day, I'm sure there will be an evolution with project sunrise and it may be healthy to take a "let's see what actually happens" approach, particularly because lots was said under the former ceo and lots can change with the passage of time (particularly in aviation).

 

[muppet]

Is the CDG EK lounge accessible to pax on QF34? Given they both are at terminal 2C?

 

[JohnK]

I always ensure I have downloaded sufficient streaming content for the the flight (and then some) onto my tablet as well as bring a book. Even when the IFE is working there is often nothing (other than the map) worth watching.

So a family of 3 would need 3 tablets and we need to prepare these before flying? Hmmm.

Glad we have zero need for these flights. I don't know what would force me to take one of these flights.

My wife prefers non-stop BNE-BKK but I'd be much happier with something like BNE-DPS-BKK and split flight times. Even BNE-SIN-BKK is acceptable.

 

[Lynda2475]

So a family of 3 would need 3 tablets and we need to prepare these before flying? Hmmm.

Or bring a book or puzzle book or listen to an mp3 player.

Anyone travelling long haul these days is likely to be travelling with a mobile, tablet or laptop or all 3. anyway, so why not download some free content from your streaming platform of choice.

You can choose to rely on IFE, but if you don't bring alternative/back-up items to keep you entertained if/when the IFE fails, then you only have yourself to blame.