Qantas running an A380 on MEL-SIN in May 2025

[AIRwin]

Wonder if Premium Economy seats can be selected for free if it's not being sold?

Qantas late-May 2025 A380 Melbourne – Singapore Service — AeroRoutes

Published at 0300GMT 11MAR25 Qantas Airways in late-May 2025 schedules limited time Airbus A380 service on Melbourne – Singapore route. The A380 aircraft is scheduled to operate following schedule on 25MAY25 and 31MAY25. QF035 MEL1205 – 1815SIN 388 QF036 SIN2015 – 0535+1MEL 388

www.aeroroutes.com

 

[jrfsp]

Wonder if Premium Economy seats can be selected for free if it's not being sold?

Qantas late-May 2025 A380 Melbourne – Singapore Service — AeroRoutes

Published at 0300GMT 11MAR25 Qantas Airways in late-May 2025 schedules limited time Airbus A380 service on Melbourne – Singapore route. The A380 aircraft is scheduled to operate following schedule on 25MAY25 and 31MAY25. QF035 MEL1205 – 1815SIN 388 QF036 SIN2015 – 0535+1MEL 388

www.aeroroutes.com

If transpacific market slumps might be more permanent move

 

[elanshin]

Wonder if Premium Economy seats can be selected for free if it's not being sold?

Qantas late-May 2025 A380 Melbourne – Singapore Service — AeroRoutes

Published at 0300GMT 11MAR25 Qantas Airways in late-May 2025 schedules limited time Airbus A380 service on Melbourne – Singapore route. The A380 aircraft is scheduled to operate following schedule on 25MAY25 and 31MAY25. QF035 MEL1205 – 1815SIN 388 QF036 SIN2015 – 0535+1MEL 388

www.aeroroutes.com

I imagine as temporary swaps you'll probably have F seats as J and PE as Y. I think that's happened a few times for HKG route as well.

 

[AIRwin]

I imagine as temporary swaps you'll probably have F seats as J and PE as Y.

No Classic Reward seats available on either days

 

[mviy]

If transpacific market slumps might be more permanent move

I would like to see the A380 back permanently on this route. I’d like to see QF9/10 run MEL-SIN-LHR return on the A380, but that’s highly unlikely to happen. MEL-SIN return on the A380 would at least provide a way to fly on the QF A380 MEL-SIN-LHR return connecting to QF1/2

 

[Cognac]

I would like to see the A380 back permanently on this route. I’d like to see QF9/10 run MEL-SIN-LHR return on the A380, but that’s highly unlikely to happen. MEL-SIN return on the A380 would at least provide a way to fly on the QF A380 MEL-SIN-LHR return connecting to QF1/2

Are you emotionally attached to the QF9/10 flight numbers? Or do you just want to see a MEL-SIN-LHR routing can use an A380 the whole way?

 

[cpatters]

I would like to see the A380 back permanently on this route. I’d like to see QF9/10 run MEL-SIN-LHR return on the A380, but that’s highly unlikely to happen. MEL-SIN return on the A380 would at least provide a way to fly on the QF A380 MEL-SIN-LHR return connecting to QF1/2

QF35/36 was an A380 pre COVID but will almost be impossible now given OQE & OQF we're both scrapped.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

was flying in Feb and a few days it was a 787 and PE was sold as PE

 

[AIRwin]

was flying in Feb and a few days it was a 787 and PE was sold as PE

Not for QF51 though:

Post in thread 'QF51 equipment change to 787'

Feb 21, 2025

Quite a few dates in March as well.

Interestingly, Qantas is not selling Premium Economy on these flights. Presumably this means you could book Economy and choose a PE seat, although I just tried making a dummy booking on the Qantas website and seat selection wasn't available at all.

• Mattg

• 

 

[altf4]

Booked this flight today, business class but trying my luck at seat selecting in the Main Deck front section.

 

[dajop]

Trouble with A380 on the route permanently (in terms of connections to/from LHR A380 service QF 1/2) is timing. The flights connecting (with minimum connection time) are QF37->QF1 and then QF2->QF36, so with A380 you get a longer connection in one direction., as QF 37 and QF36 are operated by different planes (it's a 6 hr connection from QF35->QF1 or from QF2->QF38).

 

[RB001]

Booked this flight today, business class but trying my luck at seat selecting in the Main Deck front section.

Good luck, @altf4 - and welcome to posting!

 

[henrus]

Booked this flight today, business class but trying my luck at seat selecting in the Main Deck front section.

Do you have QF status? Logged in with my Platinum number I can select seats on the main deck (first cabin) in addition to the upper deck when selecting a business fare. Then when selecting an economy fare can select either the premium economy cabin on the upper deck or the economy cabin on the main deck.

 

[altf4]

Do you have QF status? Logged in with my Platinum number I can select seats on the main deck in addition to the upper deck.

I am Gold - my post wasn't clear in hindsight. I have been able to select seats in the First Class section (assuming I'm reading the seat maps right and they're accurate).

 

[Mr Bill]

I recently completed a trip to Africa with the forward leg via BKK ex SYD. I traveled on the QF/AY acft in J. Personally I found the seating arrangement quite uncomfortable and have vowed not to travel QF/AY-J again. So......how about this for an alternative.....re-route an A380 LHR service via BKK instead of SIN ?.....says he fondly remembering the days (nights) arriving into Don Muang viewing a sea of red tails. A spinoff would be that BKK is a better value stopover than SIN (again my opinion). As for the QF/AY acft, perhaphs it could be redeployed onto an OZ/KUL service where I understand that QF has no direct presence.

 

[elanshin]

I recently completed a trip to Africa with the forward leg via BKK ex SYD. I traveled on the QF/AY acft in J. Personally I found the seating arrangement quite uncomfortable and have vowed not to travel QF/AY-J again. So......how about this for an alternative.....re-route an A380 LHR service via BKK instead of SIN ?.....says he fondly remembering the days (nights) arriving into Don Muang viewing a sea of red tails. A spinoff would be that BKK is a better value stopover than SIN (again my opinion). As for the QF/AY acft, perhaphs it could be redeployed onto an OZ/KUL service where I understand that QF has no direct presence.

Not possible right now. QF leased out 2 of their 4 slots in LHR which are occupied by QF1 and QF9 (PER-LHR). They can't run another LHR service anytime soon.

They're also short 1-2 (scrapped during covid) a380 to do a second LHR route without cutting service to other 380 routes. We're unlikely to see QF1/2 get rerouted as SIN has been set up as a transit base for QF1/2 with an F lounge that only opened in late 2019.

 

[Mr Bill]

Yeah........just a thought.....I had envisaged relaxing in the newly opened EK lounge or in the soon to be opened QR lounge at the BKK Sat Tml.....provided QF was to relocate there.

Not possible right now. QF leased out 2 of their 4 slots in LHR which are occupied by QF1 and QF9 (PER-LHR). They can't run another LHR service anytime soon.

They're also short 1-2 (scrapped during covid) a380 to do a second LHR route without cutting service to other 380 routes. We're unlikely to see QF1/2 get rerouted as SIN has been set up as a transit base for QF1/2 with an F lounge that only opened in late 2019.

 

[dajop]

.....re-route an A380 LHR service via BKK instead of SIN ?....

SIN has strong business traffic between Australia and Singapore, I guess Bangkok is not so strong. Also SIN is definitely a QF group hub with lots of onwards traffic to Jetstar Asia, which also supports the overall capacity on the route. Something they don’t have at BKK.