Originally Posted by hutchI'll give you Cairns, but how many medium / long haul flights on a wide body go to Queenstown? That's Hobart equation. Nil wide bodies....

Originally Posted by joshuawithers I've had a handful of QLink Dash 8 services replaced by 717s recently, and I was wondering, where are those 717s coming from, surely they're not just sitting on a tarmac waiting to replace a Dash-8? Probably the one 737 that replaces the two 717's used to repla...

An otherwise empty 747 loaded fully with fuel is perhaps about 40tonnes over max landing weight, not sure of the fuel burn across the ditch, but 50tonnes of fuel would seem to be very achievable.

One prefers the idea of shower at transit airports rather than departure, particularly if the transit time is long. Apart from the coffee, just escaping to somewhere comfortable to sit is a plus.