Emirates cuts flights from Sydney, Perth
By David Flynn, January 13 2019
Emirates is reducing flights from Sydney and Perth in a series of "adjustments through the year in response to dynamic market conditions."
The Gulf airline and Qantas partner will cut its Perth flights back to a single daily service from March 31 with the axing of flight EK424/EK425. This will leave the sole Perth-Dubai flight as the Airbus A380 service EK420/EK421.
Last year saw Emirates announce plans to trim its Perth schedule to 11 flights per week on a seasonal basis by dropping EK424/EK425 to run only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, but as of the end of March this flight is being scrapped for good.
Emirates will also drop the Sydney-Bangkok-Dubai stopover service EK418/EK419 as of June 1, 2019, which will see Emirates' Sydney-Dubai route reduced to three – albeit non-stop – flights per day.
"Customers wishing to travel between Bangkok and Sydney will have flight choices provided by Emirates’ partner Qantas," the airline said.
These changes follow a schedule shake-up for Emirates' Australia flights announced in September 2018 which impacted Airbus A380 flights to Sydney and Melbourne.
David Flynn is the Editor-in-Chief of Executive Traveller and a bit of a travel tragic with a weakness for good coffee, shopping and lychee martinis.
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Can't say Perth travellers have got much of out that alliance.
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Perhaps JQ on SYD-BKK or increasing the existing MEL-BKK (complimenting the existing QF23/QF24) would help with the lost capacity, which is mostly Y flyers on low-yielding/budget tickets anyway.
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Still, to think that EK has gone from operating 3x daily 777-300ERs to 1x daily A380 DXB-PER in a little under 4 years... While QR and QF have stepped up competition that is still a lot of capacity that has vanished in a few years (especially consider PER has lost EY as well last year).
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Will be interesting to see what happens if Qantas pushes ahead with its plans for the Perth mini-hub and direct Paris and Frankfurt flights.
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People from Perth are always complaining how few international flights they have, As you can see from the comments attached to this article. Well Qantas want to massively expand and the only thing standing in the way is Perth airport. Maybe they should get on to their state MPs to get them to do something about it.
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QF wants to keep all their flights at PER within the same terminal, which means they want their international flights to use the international zone of their domestic terminal that was set up for the QF9/10 PER-LHR flights.
QF wants to use this international zone until such time as the new PER terminal is open and QF moves their entire operation over.
PER wants any new QF international flights to use the current international terminal and not the international zone they are using for their current flights.
This would have the effect of increased transit times, higher chances of delays and more staffing required.
QF scrapped a planned PER-JNB flight and sent the aircraft to additional SYD-SIN flights because of PERs refusal to allow them to use their QF9/10 international gate area.
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Reminded me of the old SQ flights from Narita touching down at 3 am - why, when you could save time going to Haneda, flying out at midnight, and landing in SIN at a more reasonable hour?
To those who have flown 418/419, what were the load factors like?
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No more F on direct and non-stop flight between Sydney and Bangkok is quite surprising considering both cities are this important for its regions.
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I seriously wonder how Emirates is going to reduce flights to 3x daily from 4 without altering the timing. Currently, the flight DXB-BKK-SYD (which to be cut for good) becomes SYD-DXB (departs SYD 1600); and the DXB-SYD(departs DXB 2130) becomes SYD-BKK-DXB. Unless Emirates is also thinking of culling CHC then this is possible to maintain the existing timing of all its direct flights; i.e. DXB - SYD ===> SYD - DXB
Flight 1: 10:00 - 06:30 ===> 16:00 - 00:00
Flight 2: 02:00 - 22:30 ===> 06:00 - 13:00
Flight 3: 21:30 - 18:00 ===> 21:30 - 05:30
The other option is for Emirates to follow Brisbane's timing to be as such:
DXB - SYD ===> SYD - DXB
Flight 1: 10:00 - 06:30 ===> 21:30 - 05:30 (enroute CHC)
Flight 2: 02:00 - 22:30 ===> 06:00 - 13:00
Flight 3: 21:30 - 18:00 ===> 22:30 - 06:30
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Both qantas and emirates are advertising these flights again during the Christmas period coming up
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