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March 2021 start for Rex's Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane flights
Jun 29, 2020, 10:44 AMAny news on aircraft type? Interesting that Virgin flew an F100 from Adelaide to Orange, NSW and back over weekend. Orange is a major REX base. Were REX secretly checking out the aircraft with intentions of buying a few cheaply from Virgin administrators? The fact that REX announces a start date ...
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Rex to challenge Qantas, Virgin on capital city routes
May 13, 2020, 12:47 PMThere are a couple of things to think about here: 1) Rex already operates out of each of these capital cities to regional ports. They therefore already have staff and facilities in place. 2) REX still holds approval to operate jets dating back to when Kendell operated CRJs 3) REX can probably ...
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Qantas pauses A380 Melbourne-Singapore flights
Feb 24, 2020, 08:17 AMWith the reduction in services to Asia providing 18 spare aircraft, they now have no excuse for not starting international services out of smaller cities. Coronavirus is mainly affecting China services. Not affecting Euope or NZ! Qantas has consistently said shortage of aircraft was main reason t...
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Qantas' three-pronged Europe strategy
Dec 16, 2019, 03:33 PMQantas needs to go back to the pre- Emirates days and rebuild it's Singapore Hub which was so successful.The 3 787s Jetstar are planning on taking out of service could be used to start services quickly from Adelaide and Canberra to Singapore and onwards to Frankfurt and Paris. Passengers from oth...
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Qantas not convinced on Airbus, Boeing revised Sunrise bids
Dec 12, 2019, 12:15 PMOne thing occurred to me. Qantas says Project Sunrise is about reducing the travel time between Eastern Australia and London and New York.Why then are they not asking the manufacturers for faster aircraft?Why are they not looking at super or hyper sonic aircraft?We had supersonic 50 years ago wi...
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France imposes ban on school trips due Coronavirus
Mar 03, 2020, 06:02 PMFrench government has today banned all scheduled school trips to France!Son due to go in 2 weeks on school trip. Email received today by his school from sister school in France advising of ban. School was in process of making dcision on whether to go odr not. Taken out of their hands. Trip now ...
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School trip - access money
Mar 01, 2020, 05:26 PMThanks everyone! Any other advice still welcome.
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School trip - access money
Feb 29, 2020, 01:38 PMMy 17 year old son is travelling to France in March for 3 week school tripWhat is the best way for him to take access spending money?Doesn't have a credit card. Has a Bank of Melbourne Visa debit card
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One runway at Melbourne: why?
Apr 06, 2019, 10:36 AMUsed to work for ATC. Main factor is wind, not only at Tullamarine but wind at Esssendon as well as runways at both need to be paired for safe operations. Basically operates as one airport with 4 runways! North -Soth runway is much longer than east-west so is used by Internationals and bigger ...
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Jetstar Boeing 787s being transferred to Qantas?
Mar 22, 2019, 04:33 PMUnlikely they will operate out of Darwin as Qantas are in dispute with owners over their high charges. If Qantas are going to order A321LR better do it very quickly as Airlines will be flocking to Airbus for aircraft to replace cancelled 737max orders