QF announce non-stop Perth-London B787 Services

[docjames]

SYD-HNL-ORD-EU might work

 

[JohnK]

It’s an interesting conundrum to be able to manage AU-EU/UK and the routing to use to make it two stop with all legs <8-9hrs?

Understood not going to be easy.

When TG/SQ used to have the flights to ATH it was a little easier. But even with all my criticism of DXB I feel SYD-SIN-DXB-EU is acceptable.

Would NRT into West USA be possible?

 

[Quickstatus]

SYD-NAN-LAX-JFK-EU?

 

[docjames]

That’s 3 stops not 2 though

SYD-NAN-LAX-JFK-EU?

I thought about via HKG and SVO but that’s a 10+ hr leg

 

[docjames]

AU-BKK-IKA-EU

TAS as the second stop





There’s some creative routings, not sure how practical or desirable they are......

 

[Quickstatus]

SYD-NRT-YVR-LHR
SYD-HKG-HEL-LHR

 

[ajw373]

Since TG have pulled out of IKA it only leaves Mahan Airlines flying direct to BKK. So maybe not all that desirable.

Now if you want two close to equal legs to get to Western Europe (LHR) from East Coast of Aus then Colombo is about smack bang in the centre. And of course Sri Lankan flies to MEL.

 

[docjames]

SYD-NRT-YVR-LHR
SYD-HKG-HEL-LHR

HK-HEL over 10hr

But that first one is pretty good all legs 9-10hrs....

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

NZ via AKL and LAX but the LAX-EU leg still 10hrs+

AKL-LAX is over 12 hours.

Also I think you underestimate the time from Asian hubs to Europe, even eastern Europe.

 

[docjames]

Yep

It’s harder than it seems to get three legs close to 8-9hrs

 

[Himeno]

Yep

It’s harder than it seems to get three legs close to 8-9hrs

AU to EU without going through the middle east? yep.
Would have to go via SE Asia, India and Turkey, maybe Greece.

 

[JohnM]

Do they do S&P squid in the QF lounge at LHR before QF10, or should I just go straight to the CX F Lounge?

 

[Ansett]

Go straight to the CX Lounge via the Gin Bar at the QF Lounge and no no salt and pepper squid last time I was there.

 

[serfty]

Do they do S&P squid in the QF lounge at LHR before QF10, or should I just go straight to the CX F Lounge?

Only if you are CL or P1, only if it happens to be on the A5 sheet sized under the counter menu that day and only if they do that for QF10. (First PAX on QF2 get this.)

So for mere basic WP, CX F for food and drink, AA F for drink.

 

[cove]

First world problem JohnM that serfty has explained.
Had a call from Brad (infiniti) and he has developed a taste for the lobster for breakfast in the SQ Private Room. We just did the PH Rare with a regular bacon and eggs.

 

[wandering_fred]

While MEL is too far a back track from PER when headed to Europe, if starting in the eastern states MEL-CMB-LHR would be a far better choice for me than MEL-PER-LHR. There's nothing low brow with the biz seats or service on UL's A330s. And both UL segments are roughly equal in length.
But the short hop in the Y cabin to SIN or KUL works from PER...(for me) And UL now will use an A330 on one of their CMB-SIN flight pairs.

Might be less expensive as well

Happy wandering
Fred

 

[JohnM]

Only if you are CL or P1, only if it happens to be on the A5 sheet sized under the counter menu that day and only if they do that for QF10. (First PAX on QF2 get this.)

So for mere basic WP, CX F for food and drink, AA F for drink.

All this under the counter stuff and excluding WP from what they would ordinarily get in an F lounge seems bizarre. I generally don’t eat a lot in the lounge but I do particularly enjoy the S&P squid as a snack.

What Champagne does AA serve? Is the AA lounge close by?

 

[serfty]

AA's lounge front door is about a 20 second walk from that of the QF lounge.

I have consumed both Bollinger & Taittinger there.

 

[Daver6]

AA's lounge front door is about a 20 second walk from that of the QF lounge.

I have seen Bollinger & Taittinger.

@JohnM will need to find somewhere along the way for a drink with such a long walk.

 

[cove]

A couple of glasses of champagne and that long walk will all be forgotten by JohnM. We could enter him in an Under Seventy walking contest between those lounges.