QF to return to OOL [$48 SYD fares until 3pm Wed 15Aug12 ($88 MEL)]

[medhead]

I just want to do a Mal Colston.


Sent from the Throne

 

[maninblack]

I want OOL-BNE


Sent from the Throne

Flew BNE-OOL several times back in the TAA/Australian days on the B727. It was a late evening (around 9pm) flight, perhaps it was a positioning flight. It took about 15 minutes from memory and it flew so low that they kept the front door open to catch the evening breeze

Anyway, will be interesting to see QF back at OOL. It will suit me just fine, hoping for at least 3 MEL services a day.

 

[whatmeworry]

QANTAS is making a major announcement at the Gold Coast Airport at 3pm today.

Qantas announcement at airport | Tweed News | Local News in Tweed | Daily News

 

[markis10]

Qantas announcement at airport | Tweed News | Local News in Tweed | Daily News

Wonder what it could be, LOL, QF1360 due at 1420 into OOL

 

[kevrosmith]

Be interesting to see what QF means - Mainline or QFLink nee Cobham

More likely Sunstate wouldn't it be? Cobham run the 717s into NT, don't they?

 

[MarkD]

Lol looks like an old 747sp they used for the pic


I'm too poor to own a signature

 

[Must...Fly!]

Wonder what it could be, LOL, QF1360 due at 1420 into OOL

Do we have equipment type

 

[anat0l]

Wonder what it could be, LOL, QF1360 due at 1420 into OOL

Charter flight isn't showing on FlightStats, so can't tell.

 

[markis10]

More likely Sunstate wouldn't it be? Cobham run the 717s into NT, don't they?

Cobham run all the jets for QFlink, including the Brisbane based 717s.

 

[Simo]

Maybe they might also do a OOL to CNS on J*

I know I am off topic.

But I had to say it for our FNQ cousins

 

[Wunala Dreaming]

Charter flight isn't showing on FlightStats, so can't tell.

QF 737-800 VH-VZT. She's just about to depart SYD.

 

[VHOEJ]

Now the key is people (in particular QF FF) actually using it and not complaining about the price. You got what you wanted, now you have to support it by actually booking

 

[maninblack]

Maybe they might also do a OOL to CNS on J*

I know I am off topic.

But I had to say it for our FNQ cousins

They already do as part of international but you can fly it as a domestic sector (or did they scrub it)

 

[TheInsider]

QF 737-800 VH-VZT. She's just about to depart SYD.

So by the use of this a/c it will be mainline operating the flights it seems.

 

[TheInsider]

QF1360 is currently showing on flightradar24

http://fr24.com/QFA1360

 

[anat0l]

Maybe they might also do a OOL to CNS on J*

I know I am off topic.

They already do.

QF 737-800 VH-VZT. She's just about to depart SYD.

Cheers for that!

Now the key is people (in particular QF FF) actually using it and not complaining about the price. You got what you wanted, now you have to support it by actually booking

If QF aren't price competitive with VA then of course there's an obvious choice there (barring awards, possibly). But that's what I mean by QF trying to get back into OOL, making a decent effort of it and making sure that it's not just some posture experiment (or deliberately trying to make it look like a failure so they can have a good reason not to go back).

So by the use of this a/c it will be mainline operating the flights it seems.

It'd be even better if 734s aren't operating the route later (though, saying that, if OOL gets majority new aircraft on it, then the BNE-MEL pax will have a good reason to complain bitterly about getting frequently stuck on the 734s).

 

[brad330]

Maybe they might also do a OOL to CNS on J*

I know I am off topic.

But I had to say it for our FNQ cousins

JQ fly 2x Daily CNS-OOL

 

[maninblack]

QF1360 is currently showing on flightradar24

Decoy. AJ is coming in on SQ

 

[markis10]

Decoy. AJ is coming in on SQ

Dont you mean scoot.

 

[anat0l]

Dont you mean scoot.

O/T

My mum, for some odd reason, keeps remember the name of that airline incorrectly, replacing to two Os with a single A.

The coincidence is.... well, I'll let you determine that.