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Virgin Australia launches Melbourne-Doha flights
Jan 19, 2025, 06:44 PMI said this aswell. The VA8 (11pm arrival) won’t leave Melbourne until 5pm the following day. Another solution could be: VA8 DOH-MEL plane swaps with the QR988 DOH-MEL and continues to Canberra then the QR989 CBR-MEL plane does MEL-DOH as VA7. So it will be VA8, QR988, QR989,...
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Virgin Australia launches Melbourne-Doha flights
Jan 14, 2025, 10:14 AMWhy doesn’t VA retime the VA7 flight out of Melbourne to a 6am departure to match Emirates’ 6am departure to Dubai and also so the VA8 arriving plane doesn’t have to spend more time on the ground at Melbourne. This is what Emirates does, EK408 (11.20pm arrival), EK409 (6.30am de...
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Emirates to axe Melbourne-Singapore flights on March 30
Dec 10, 2024, 07:07 AMThey can’t run an afternoon departure since they intend to use the 777 on EK404/405. Why? The 777 will arrive into Melbourne in the early evening, meaning if it were to leave Melbourne in the afternoon, it would be idle for nearly 24 hours. The only option is for them to go all A380 to...
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Virgin Australia reveals new international 777 flights
Dec 05, 2024, 11:21 PMMelbourne could get the A380 seeing that it won’t have its third flight until December 2025 and it will be in the same capacity as Brisbane (2x 777W)
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Qatar Airways gets go-ahead for more Australian flights
Nov 29, 2024, 03:44 PMNo they are not at full capacity. The UAE-Australia air rights include both Emirates & Etihad. Since Etihad hasn't used much of there slots, Emirates can fill it in. Also, the Melbourne-Singapore leg of EK404/405 will be abolished next year leaving Melbourne with 2x daily rather than 3x ...
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Emirates to discontinue Melbourne to Singapore
Sep 09, 2024, 01:25 PMEmirates 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 Du...
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A380 for QF93/94 Melbourne-Los Angeles
Jan 15, 2023, 08:04 PMOriginally Posted by vhojm The a380 is in the schedule for the end of 2023. There are currently 6 a380s flying (VH-OQB, OQD, OQG, OQH, OQJ and OQK).VH-OQA left Victorville a few weeks ago to be refurbished and VH-OQL left a little before that.Imagine once these two are back flying they will be ab...
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A380 for QF93/94 Melbourne-Los Angeles
Jan 08, 2023, 03:24 PMAnyone have any idea on when Qantas will resume A380 flights between Melbourne and LA? It was rumoured to reappear last year in December. I've checked flights between Melbourne-LA and it still shows 787 for the entire year (2023). I plan on flying to Toronto from Melbourne via LAX in September an...
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Melbourne Airport T2 Depature Security Opening Time?
Aug 29, 2022, 04:11 PMWhat time does security open for international flights out of MEL? I will be taking the 5.15am Emirates flight to Dubai and have been informed that check-in will open at 1.15am
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A380s back to Australia
Jul 03, 2022, 07:25 PMWith Australia qualifying to Word Cup, it seems as though Qatar is increasing capacity on its Australian routes. Anyone know when Qatar might reinstate the A380 to other Australian cities like Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane? Sydney had the return of the A380 on June 1st.
