QF announce non-stop Perth-London B787 Services

[Daver6]

Perth immigration was smooth (although no eGates were working) and quarantine was quick.

These must be new and still being "installed". They weren't even there when I last came back from SIN on QF72 a couple of months ago. So slowly getting there.

 

[Melburnian1]

Schedule analyser OAG (Official Airline Guide) has just issued a blog on the Cricket World Cup in the UK (a subject of no interest to me).

However the author of 'A smashing summer coming up', John Grant, says 'Australian and NZ have been excluded from the country analysis...because of no direct services.'

By 'direct' he means the better term 'non stop.'

Has he not heard of QF's QF9 PER to LHR "express" and the other direction's nonstop QF10?

 

[Quickstatus]

Only for PER everyone else is 1-2 stops

 

[Melburnian1]

Only for PER everyone else is 1-2 stops

True, but the author did not qualify his statement. Sad that he's unaware of that QF initiative.

 

[odysseus]

So they don't do very good schedule analysis then...

 

[Melburnian1]

So they don't do very good schedule analysis then...

Sometimes it (OAG) does, but on this occasion, a rather basic 'fail' to anyone interested in airline schedules. And this bloke probably gets paid a lot of moolah to write these articles!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Schedule analyser OAG (Official Airline Guide) has just issued a blog on the Cricket World Cup in the UK (a subject of no interest to me).

However the author of 'A smashing summer coming up', John Grant, says 'Australian and NZ have been excluded from the country analysis...because of no direct services.'

By 'direct' he means the better term 'non stop.'

Has he not heard of QF's QF9 PER to LHR "express" and the other direction's nonstop QF10?

Of more a concern is an aviation writer using the word 'direct' when they mean 'non-stop'. These have distinct meanings and are not really inter-changeable in airline terms.

 

[Melburnian1]

Of more a concern is an aviation writer using the word 'direct' when they mean 'non-stop'. These have distinct meanings and are not really inter-changeable in airline terms.

Agree he uses it incorrectly, as some travel agents strangely use 'direct' to mean 'a trip with an intermediate stop but on the same aircraft.' This confuses many who want a nonstop "express" flight.

 

[Kangol]

Agree he uses it incorrectly, as some travel agents strangely use 'direct' to mean 'a trip with an intermediate stop but on the same aircraft.' This confuses many who want a nonstop "express" flight.

Sometimes it's not on the same aircraft but the same flight number.

 

[Himeno]

Sometimes it's not on the same aircraft but the same flight number.

Rarely. They swap out the MEL-PER-MEL leg with an A330 or 737 when the PER-LHR-PER leg has a large delay in order to clear 11 hours of delay from the LHR-PER-MEL-LAX/SFO rotation.
Normally, the same aircraft flys LHR-LAX or SFO via PER and MEL with flight number changing in MEL.

 

[Melburnian1]

Rarely. They swap out the MEL-PER-MEL leg with an A330 or 737 when the PER-LHR-PER leg has a large delay in order to clear 11 hours of delay from the LHR-PER-MEL-LAX/SFO rotation.
Normally, the same aircraft flys LHR-LAX or SFO via PER and MEL with flight number changing in MEL.

From the previous discussion, Kangol may have been referring to worldwide, not just Oz - LHR or QF.

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Schedule analyser OAG (Official Airline Guide) has just issued a blog on the Cricket World Cup in the UK (a subject of no interest to me).

However the author of 'A smashing summer coming up', John Grant, says 'Australian and NZ have been excluded from the country analysis...because of no direct services.'

By 'direct' he means the better term 'non stop.'

Has he not heard of QF's QF9 PER to LHR "express" and the other direction's nonstop QF10?

There are three direct services from Australia and NZ.

MEL-PER-LHR
SYD-SIN-LHR
AKL-LAX-LHR

 

[dajop]

There are three direct services from Australia and NZ.

Could also make an argument that there are four direct services, as LHR-SIN-SYD has two direct services, one by QF and one by BA.