Friday, February 8, 2013

Qantas Asian Services changes

 
Qantas announced a series of "improvements" to the companies Asian services early this week. As part of these changes, some Australian and Asian ports will be better off, however for some others this will not be the case. Changes will affect Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
 
Brisbane will benefit from the recent announcment with the current four times weekly service to Hong Kong, being increased to five times weekly from May 6 and daily from June 24. The daily Brisbane to Singapore service will also see a change, with the departure time being pushed back from 13:40, to 10:20. This is to allow more time to connect to more flights to more destinations in Asia. Thankfully services will continue to be operated by Boeing 747-400s.


Sydney will see changes to it's Sydney to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore flights. Flights to Bangkok will now depart in the morning from March 31. Flights to Hong Kong will be decreased to daily from the current 11 weekly with QF87/88 being cut, QF127/128 will be re-timed effective March 31. Flights to Singapore will increase to 11 times weekly from March 31 and to twice daily from June 24.

Melbourne will see it's daily services to Hong Kong and Singapore re-timed to morning departures from March 31. Adelaide will see it's three times weekly service to Singapore cut from April 14, marking the end of Qantas Internationals services out of the South Australian capital. And finally, Perth will see it's three times weekly service to Hong Kong cut from March 31 and it's twice daily service to Singapore being cut in half, leaving Perth with only one Qantas International flight each day from April 15. The remainng service will also be retimed.

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