Something's definitely up...for the A330s

[serfty]

Wetting accidents aside, leather can become very sweaty uncomfortable on long haul.

 

[AdMEL]

I wonder why it's BNE that loses out with the C2C A330s? BNE is VAs base, BNE has marginally more aircraft movements than SYD and MEL and I think BNE handles more pax movements as well, BNE-PER is the dearer fare and not to mention BNE-PER has a longer flight time.

Slightly off topic, but on the flip side MEL lost LAX services in favour of BNE, I assume because BNE is VA's base. I can't imagine there would be more passengers flying to the US from BNE than MEL, given MEL population is twice that of BNE!

 

[MarkD]

MEL has Delta as well thats my guess

 

[markis10]

Slightly off topic, but on the flip side MEL lost LAX services in favour of BNE, I assume because BNE is VA's base. I can't imagine there would be more passengers flying to the US from BNE than MEL, given MEL population is twice that of BNE!

However MEL traffic declined year on year for all airlines for both passengers and freight while Brisbane grew by ten percent for pax and 50% for freight.

 

[TomVexille]

MEL has Delta as well thats my guess

No DL flights to MEL. There is a UA flight though.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

VA 330 disappear over the weekends.
Go QF if you love the wide birds Au TransContinent.
When I did my one and only VA Au TC on a 330, it was a mid week flight.
I believe VA had never put 330s on Au TC flights on weekends.

 

[AdMEL]

However MEL traffic declined year on year for all airlines for both passengers and freight while Brisbane grew by ten percent for pax and 50% for freight.

Care to inform or at least speculate on revenue for freight compared with passengers?

With respect to passengers, again I guess that given the populations of MEL and BNE, MEL would have provided at least 50%, possibly up to 100% more passengers than BNE, so depending on the decline for MEL, an increase of 10% for BNE would take years to overtake MEL.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

VA 330 disappear over the weekends.
Go QF if you love the wide birds Au TransContinent.
When I did my one and only VA Au TC on a 330, it was a mid week flight.
I believe VA had never put 330s on Au TC flights on weekends.

both QF and VA operate a number of both A330 and B737 flights on weekends on SYD/MEL-PER.

 

[basso]

I believe VA had never put 330s on Au TC flights on weekends.

I can assure you of two things. VA operate TC A330 (and 737) services on the weekend. QF operate TC 737 (and A330) services on the weekend.

 

[peakhour]

Care to inform or at least speculate on revenue for freight compared with passengers?

With respect to passengers, again I guess that given the populations of MEL and BNE, MEL would have provided at least 50%, possibly up to 100% more passengers than BNE, so depending on the decline for MEL, an increase of 10% for BNE would take years to overtake MEL.

To the USA the pax load is about 40% greater from MEL than BNE overall, what VA's share of that total is, is for someone else to answer. If BNE continued to grow and Melbourne did not, obviously 3 years or so to catch up, excluding freight volumes which would help no doubt if those growth figures are to be believed.

 

[markis10]

Care to inform or at least speculate on revenue for freight compared with passengers?

With respect to passengers, again I guess that given the populations of MEL and BNE, MEL would have provided at least 50%, possibly up to 100% more passengers than BNE, so depending on the decline for MEL, an increase of 10% for BNE would take years to overtake MEL.

On a 777 freight is a significant factor with capacity greater that the A380, so VA have an advantage. With BNE having a catchment of 3mil versus Melbourne 4mil, it would not take long re the catchup.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

given the populations of MEL and BNE, MEL would have provided at least 50%, possibly up to 100% more passengers than BNE,

Populations doesn't seem to have much to do with it. We are just talking about VA and not overall and I must admit I was surprised when a VA staffer in BNE told me BNE had greater aircraft movement (for VA) than both SYD and MEL. She also said BNE just pipped SYD and MEL for pax numbers. As I said, that surprised me.

To the USA the pax load is about 40% greater from MEL than BNE overall,

You may be correct in what you say (I'm not sure one way or the other) and I understand you were commenting on pax numbers but I don't think VA fly A330s to the USA so not really much to do with this thread. I think the discussion is about transcon and short haul int.

 

[Major]

So, back to the OP's query...are the A330's due for major services and are they carried out in SIN ?

 

[TomVexille]

So, back to the OP's query...are the A330's due for major services and are they carried out in SIN ?

Well they are all due for a J refit in the first half of next year so that's a reason for at least one to be out of service at a time.

 

[markis10]

So, back to the OP's query...are the A330's due for major services and are they carried out in SIN ?

I believe Brisbane is where they are done, or Sydney when the base is up to a point, c and d are done in Manila

 

[Major]

I believe Brisbane is where they are done, or Sydney when the base is up to a point, c and d are done in Manila

Which are the big ones and approx how long are they off line ?

 

[markis10]

Which are the big ones and approx how long are they off line ?

C and D are three-four weeks, I had heard they were looking at doing it locally but the $$$ may not make sense.

 

[toowongman]

C and D are three-four weeks, I had heard they were looking at doing it locally but the $$$ may not make sense.

Yup. These guys can do it:
Welcome to Lufthansa Technik Philippines

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Am trying to find VA 330 PER BNE on weekend for a long time, PER MEL and PER SYD on weekend no luck.
Have to aim for taking JQ 330 as a dom pax on int flight MEL SYD or vv to get my kicks these days.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Am trying to find VA 330 PER BNE on weekend for a long time, PER MEL and PER SYD on weekend no luck.
Have to aim for taking JQ 330 as a dom pax on int flight MEL SYD or vv to get my kicks these days.

Your not looking too hard with mel and syd then. As for BNE i.thought the a330 was pulled altogether