Yep you'll probably see QF re-route those A380's onto MEL/SYD-HKG services. The MEL P/C lounge is a big and important investment and not one that QF is looking to close!  

chap6595 I agree and believe that as the QF B789 fleet grows, we will see a return to Dubai from MEL with possibly the addition of PER & BNE to DXB. I'm hopeful that QF will also add additional trans pac services to DFW from MEL & possibly BNE as well as expanded services to SFO. The B787...

QF will only add capacity to China if it can make money, there is a huge amount of capacity between China and Australia and so it maybe best for QF to allow current capacity in the short term to be grown into and allow things to settle for a while?

Truly an amazing aircraft is the B747. Shortest sectors i've flown in a B747 were between MEL-ADL & Seattle to Portland on a Northwest Orient B747-200 many years ago to crossing the Pacific to/from Australia. She'll always hold a special place in my heart, just really sad I missed flying on t...

Great news for Melbourne, the property looks amazing from the renders. Now would love to see a Shangri-La finally open in Melbourne too!