Emirates to discontinue Melbourne to Singapore

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hakkinen5

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Being reported in Malaysian media now that Emirates have applied to Singapore authorities to pull out of the Melbourne to Singapore route and have its capacity controls released (as was required with the QF/Emirates tie up). Surely Qantas would now reinstate the A380 on Melbourne to Singapore frequency that ties into the QF1/2 flight onwards to London? That would keep some of their market share, and offer Premium Economy and First Class all the way from Melbourne to London on Qantas metal. What do you all think?

Grannular

Member since 31 Mar 2014

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Does Qantas even have spare A380 capacity to move on to this route?

Ryan K

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Originally Posted by hakkinen5

Being reported in Malaysian media now that Emirates have applied to Singapore authorities to pull out of the Melbourne to Singapore route and have its capacity controls released (as was required with the QF/Emirates tie up). Surely Qantas would now reinstate the A380 on Melbourne to Singapore frequency that ties into the QF1/2 flight onwards to London? That would keep some of their market share, and offer Premium Economy and First Class all the way from Melbourne to London on Qantas metal. What do you all think?

In theory, it sounds like a great idea, but I highly doubt they have a spare A380 to do this.

WelcomeAboard

Member since 18 Apr 2023

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I think the whole point is there too much capacity in the market, which is why Emirates wish to drop the route. It doesn't make sense for Qantas to sub in an A380. Across all carriers (excluding Emirates) there are 68 departures per week. Whilst SQ and TK are targetting connecting traffic, there is still a fair amount of capacity compared to other hubs and yields for Origin / Destination traffic would be low.


EK - 777-300ER Daily (to be cancelled)
SQ - 2x 777-300ER Daily and 3x A350-900 Daily
QF - A330-200/300 13 pw
JQ - B787-8 Daily
Scoot - B787-9 10pw
TK - A350-900 3pw


Last editedby WelcomeAboard at Sep 09, 2024, 12:17 PM.

neddie3noah

Member since 01 Oct 2021

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Emirates should add a third daily nonstop service to Melbourne possibly on a A380, with new a flight time (maybe an afternoon departure out of Melbourne would be nice matching the afternoon Qatar & Etihad flights), and then a afternoon arrival similar to Sydney's EK416 flight.


Melbourne to Dubai:

EK409 departs 5-6am

EK405 departs 3-4pm

Ek407 departs 9-10pm


Dubai to Melbourne:

EK406 arrives 5-6am

EK404 arrives 4-5pm

EK408 arrives 9-10pm

Since the EK406 plane arrives in the morning then leaves Melbourne late at night as EK407, maybe Emirates could use the plane as EK405 for afternoon departure and then the EK404 plane can fly out as EK407. This allows Emirates to not have there A380s on the ground in Melbourne for a long time, unless they keep EK404/405 a 777.

Phil Young

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Member since 22 Oct 2012

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Originally Posted by Grannular

Does Qantas even have spare A380 capacity to move on to this route?

Definitely not. Qantas destroyed 2 of their A380's, and 3 of them are at Abu Dhabi, with one of them being there for well over 2 years.

quantumreality

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Originally Posted by WelcomeAboard

I think the whole point is there too much capacity in the market, which is why Emirates wish to drop the route. It doesn't make sense for Qantas to sub in an A380. Across all carriers (excluding Emirates) there are 68 departures per week. Whilst SQ and TK are targetting connecting traffic, there is still a fair amount of capacity compared to other hubs and yields for Origin / Destination traffic would be low.


EK - 777-300ER Daily (to be cancelled)
SQ - 2x 777-300ER Daily and 3x A350-900 Daily
QF - A330-200/300 13 pw
JQ - B787-8 Daily
Scoot - B787-9 10pw
TK - A350-900 3pw


Last editedby WelcomeAboard at Sep 09, 2024, 12:17 PM.

Seems like SQ has more flights than our supposedly national carrier... by far. 🤔

DanV

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Originally Posted by quantumreality

Originally Posted by WelcomeAboard

I think the whole point is there too much capacity in the market, which is why Emirates wish to drop the route. It doesn't make sense for Qantas to sub in an A380. Across all carriers (excluding Emirates) there are 68 departures per week. Whilst SQ and TK are targetting connecting traffic, there is still a fair amount of capacity compared to other hubs and yields for Origin / Destination traffic would be low.


EK - 777-300ER Daily (to be cancelled)
SQ - 2x 777-300ER Daily and 3x A350-900 Daily
QF - A330-200/300 13 pw
JQ - B787-8 Daily
Scoot - B787-9 10pw
TK - A350-900 3pw


Last editedby WelcomeAboard at Sep 09, 2024, 12:17 PM.

Seems like SQ has more flights than our supposedly national carrier... by far. 🤔
Well SIN is SQ's home base and super-hub, whereas for QF it's only a scissor hub for their LHR flights and their 3K (JQ Asia) ops into mostly the Asian beach cities.

Serg

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Member since 12 Apr 2013

Total posts 987

Originally Posted by hakkinen5

Being reported in Malaysian media now that Emirates have applied to Singapore authorities to pull out of the Melbourne to Singapore route and have its capacity controls released (as was required with the QF/Emirates tie up). Surely Qantas would now reinstate the A380 on Melbourne to Singapore frequency that ties into the QF1/2 flight onwards to London? That would keep some of their market share, and offer Premium Economy and First Class all the way from Melbourne to London on Qantas metal. What do you all think?

What do I think? Dreams are free.

Serg

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Member since 12 Apr 2013

Total posts 987

Originally Posted by quantumreality

Originally Posted by WelcomeAboard

I think the whole point is there too much capacity in the market, which is why Emirates wish to drop the route. It doesn't make sense for Qantas to sub in an A380. Across all carriers (excluding Emirates) there are 68 departures per week. Whilst SQ and TK are targetting connecting traffic, there is still a fair amount of capacity compared to other hubs and yields for Origin / Destination traffic would be low.


EK - 777-300ER Daily (to be cancelled)
SQ - 2x 777-300ER Daily and 3x A350-900 Daily
QF - A330-200/300 13 pw
JQ - B787-8 Daily
Scoot - B787-9 10pw
TK - A350-900 3pw


Last editedby WelcomeAboard at Sep 09, 2024, 12:17 PM.

Seems like SQ has more flights than our supposedly national carrier... by far. 🤔
Our "Flag Carrier" does not fly overseas from Adelaide at all while SQ for example has two flights to Singapore.

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