Adelaide to Melbourne Qatar Flight

Travelling from ADL > DOH via MEL in September this year and wondering if anyone else has travelled the incredibly short ADL > MEL flight in a QSuite? Curious to know if there is a meal service offered and if so, how extensive it is?

You are wrong. QR989 flies Adelaide-Melbourne-Doha because Qantas argues that qatars growth in Australia would be unfair and blah blah blah.

But stop spreading misinformation.

There is a video on YouTube with this flight which will give a good feeling for what you can expect

Can confirm QR989 is a Qatar 777 from ADL > MEL. It’s an unusual flight which is why I am curious what service is offered on board for such a short flight.

Had a quick look and couldn’t seem to find it. To clarify it’s just the Adelaide to Melbourne leg I’m curious about.

I did SYD-CBR in J class on QR a few years ago now. Only service was tea/coffee/cold drink. Imagine similar between ADL-MEL.

What I don’t understand is the long layover in MEL - around 3.5 hrs. Why couldn’t the flight just depart Adelaide a couple of hours later?

Because that would mean a longer stop in ADL for those traveling DOH-MEL, which would be the vast majority of people on board I would think.

The people flying ADL-DOH are inconvenienced a little, but I expect they would be in the minority.

It would also be the case that QR would have greater resources on the ground in Melbourne (and it’s a larger and busier hub in general), so it makes sense for that to be the place where it is fueled, catered, probably a crew change, etc

In theory the aircraft might depart DOH a little later, come and go from ADL a little later, and arrive MEL a little later, but a million and one factors go into aircraft utilization - availability of slots, airport curfews, crew change times, and the schedule preferences of passengers. In my non-expert outsider observations, 3.5 hrs on the ground at a very long haul outstation would probably be considered more than reasonable by most airlines.

Wrong. It is not a triangle route. QR operates with stops in MEL in both directions.

QR988 /989 MEL-ADL-MEL do not carry any revenue pax, only crew. It is simply a tag flight in order for QR to justify X2 daily flights into MEL

They potentailly carry revenue pax originating or terminating in Adelaide, not only crew. Although as previously stated the lenght of transit in Melbourne in not that 'user friendly'.

They need that time to invasively search women physically for just being women.