Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
Dec 12th 2016, 8:25 am
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
Dec 12th 2016, 8:34 am
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Dec 12th 2016, 8:47 am
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
Dubai airport is hell on earth. I'd rather go through Brunei where there's **** all other than a couple of seats and a cafe that may or may not be open. I was quite surprised how shit Hong Kong was as well. Stupidly thought/hoped it would be similar to Changi. 
Dec 12th 2016, 9:14 am
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
Meanwhile, the new Abu Dhabi construction is motoring along. Good for Ethiad lovers.
Dec 12th 2016, 10:26 am
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One problem I can see is if there is a need for a diversion. Heading North, towards the end of the flight it will be over Europe so lots of diversion options. Heading South, the final part of the flight will be over the Indian Ocean, so not many options - Exmouth, maybe Jakarta
Dec 12th 2016, 9:33 pm
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
If you think about it, for those ultra long-haul flights that reach the maximum distance you are looking at taking on 100,000 kg of fuel. The fuel alone would weigh about 2.5-3x as much as all passengers and their luggage!
Dec 12th 2016, 10:13 pm
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Yeah, I saw that. It read to me as US airlines trying to excuse their terrible service by saying that their asian competitors (who are fast encroaching on US business) would have to give up being a good at service and decline to US airline standards. I doubt it - who the hell is going to be first to get rid of the wine and seat back TVs?
Someone somewhere must have the stats on business tickets sold?
Try this on for size:
https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/...0527115106.jpg
Nah, my point is the cost isn't always what you think. For instance, I remember a scenario where me and the customer were going around the world, stopping in at various places. His travel people got him a quote on economy tickets for x amount. My travel people were more on the ball and found a business class ticket, for the same route (but stopping in Singas), for less than the economy ticket price. He got onto his travel people, shouted, and got them to get the same ticket.
Business class tickets have the expectation of flexibility and late booking worked into them, economy costs extra for that
As I say, depends on who's paying, .... and the £2k extra can be worth it when the consequence of the reason for the meeting can have many more zeros in it.
Someone somewhere must have the stats on business tickets sold?
Try this on for size:
https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/...0527115106.jpg
Nah, my point is the cost isn't always what you think. For instance, I remember a scenario where me and the customer were going around the world, stopping in at various places. His travel people got him a quote on economy tickets for x amount. My travel people were more on the ball and found a business class ticket, for the same route (but stopping in Singas), for less than the economy ticket price. He got onto his travel people, shouted, and got them to get the same ticket.
Business class tickets have the expectation of flexibility and late booking worked into them, economy costs extra for that
As I say, depends on who's paying, .... and the £2k extra can be worth it when the consequence of the reason for the meeting can have many more zeros in it.
Dec 12th 2016, 10:25 pm
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
. I use long haul for exactly that purpose. Drone out with a couple of Mrs T's Bloody Mary's
Dec 12th 2016, 10:25 pm
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
Why would anyone care how someone else passes the time on a flight?
Dec 12th 2016, 10:50 pm
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
On top of that you get new releases, and on some airlines you get a lot of regional options - so on Singapore Airlines for instance you might get to see some interesting Japanese or Korean productions that would be hard to bump into elsewhere.
Frankly for me it's wine (lots of it) & films as soon as we're up, and then shut-eye once the body needs to regenerate.
Dec 12th 2016, 11:12 pm
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Re: Qantas Perth - London non stop from 2018
I wouldn't say that is strictly true. Prior ULR models have not been commercially successful...not the 772LR and especially not the A340-500. And airlines which bought these, then found they couldn't make any money with them and tried to sell them find they have no buyers. Presumably the 787 and 359 will be more efficient, you'd expect that...but they will be still at the mercy of fuel prices to quite a degree.
Dec 12th 2016, 11:40 pm
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I'm flying again for christmas and intend to try out the Netflix 'download to your tablet' option, coupled with some stored MP4 movies and TV. I can always fall back on an eBook.
Dec 13th 2016, 12:15 am
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Dec 13th 2016, 12:17 am
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One problem I can see is if there is a need for a diversion. Heading North, towards the end of the flight it will be over Europe so lots of diversion options. Heading South, the final part of the flight will be over the Indian Ocean, so not many options - Exmouth, maybe Jakarta
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Dec 13th 2016, 12:53 am
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Fill the cabin with helium and it'll work. At least the air stewards won't sound any different than usual