Qantas Frequent Flyer - 2 A380 Delayed, More Domestic Capacity

Not looking good for International but oviously Domestic is heating up.
Qantas Delays new planes
Qantas will cut spending by a further $400 million in the next financial year by delaying the delivery of new A380 aircraft.

A review of the airline's maintenance operations had concluded, but a decision would not be announced until mid-May, Qantas said in a statement today.

The reduction cuts the carrier's planned expenditure on equipment in 2012-13 to $1.9 billion.

Qantas was to receive two new super jumbo A380s in early 2013, but will now take delivery of the aircraft in the 2016/17 financial year.

Another six A380s will be delivered to Qantas from 2018/19.

The spending reductions follow a previously announced $500 million worth of cuts, which included staff cuts in its catering, cabin crew, pilots, engineering and ground operations.

Qantas has also been reviewing its maintenance operations to identify cost savings, which is likely to result in job losses.

Chief executive Alan Joyce has previously said keeping three maintenance sites - Melbourne, Avalon and Brisbane - was not viable.

Qantas has also announced a big increase in capacity in its domestic business, as it fights to maintain at least 65 per cent market share.

It will step up competition against Virgin Australia by adding extra services during peak times on the busiest east coast business routes between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

It will also bring back Boeing 747s on its Sydney-to-Perth route, plus more Airbus A330s on the Melbourne to Perth route. Jetstar will also increase its capacity, while QantasLink will increase capacity across Queensland.

stuff.co.nz (http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/6860072/Qantas-delays-new-planes)

Wait, are there still two coming this year? As in two more that could potentially be used to JNB as some discussed on here?

Wait, are there still two coming this year? As in two more that could potentially be used to JNB as some discussed on here?

There are no more A380s coming until 2016 (when numbers 13 and 14 are delivered).

One positive; by then all the tech faults would have been further sorted making the final 8 less problematic;)

And solves the issue as to whether #13/14 would be delivered in 3-class format (ie no First) - 13-20 had been announced as 3-class before 15-20 got delayed.

It's on the Qantas Media releases page...

Speech by Qantas CEO: Macquarie Australia Conference http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/media-releases/may-2012/0412a/global/en
Qantas Group strategy update http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/media-releases/may-2012/5393a/global/en
QantasLink jets into Emerald and expands services across Queensland http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/media-releases/may-2012/5395/global/en
Qantas to increase domestic capacity in 2012/2013 http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/media-releases/may-2012/5394/global/en

Qantas has also announced a big increase in capacity in its domestic business, as it fights to maintain at least 65 per cent market share.



It goes in circles: they focus on domestics and let the international traffic go away to competitors; then they complain about international competition and try to do something on this front and then they focus solely on domestics again.....

It goes in circles: they focus on domestics and let the international traffic go away to competitors; then they complain about international competition and try to do something on this front and then they focus solely on domestics again.....

it's that very clever management team they have at QF currently, cunning and clever...

The lies in that presentation are astounding. If you look at the fleet renewal page, it would imply only Europe and Japan do not have the new product!

So Qantas strategy going forward is cramming in extra seats on the A380, reducing flights and letting the 747s fly for longer. Great!

it's that very clever management team they have at QF currently, cunning and clever...

:D^

Lovely to see. AJ making the airline more and more completely irrelevant.

I think he secretly wants to kill off QF and make it JQ.

In some way, I can't really blame AJ. He's between a rock and a hard place.
On one hand, Qantas' Australian labour and operational costs are the among the highest in the world (especially with our strong dollar). On the other hand, for an "Spirit of Australia" airline, many people want Australian employees. But many people would rather a cheap flight than "Australian" Qantas. What do we expect the guy to do? By trying to appeal to both interests, Qantas are going to loose out. (Add into this as well the global economic difficulties most airlines are facing).

I think you have to look at the positive side of this. At least they aren't cancelling the orders altogether (at this stage). To stay in the game, Qantas needs the two branded strategy. I don't expect Qantas to be flying to every single possible destination internationally, especially with the increased competition and deregulation of the last 10-15 years. I think Joyce is doing what he has to do to keep the airline operational and profitable. What else can we expect?

What I read is a company that has enjoyed a monopoly for several years for domestic business class trying to oversupply a market to try and stop there being competition. The behaviour seems to be anti-competitive; fortunately , I think that Virgin has enough resources to be able to handle the attack

Fortunately, there are plenty of airlines for international travel to choose from; Qantas these days doesn't seem to have a wonderfully extensive network anyway. Looking at the route map there seems to be

North America, 4 destinations
South America 1
Africa , 1
Europe , 2
SWP , 4 in NZ , plus seems to be Port Moresby, noumea
Asia , seems to be about 7

What I read is a company that has enjoyed a monopoly for several years for domestic business class trying to oversupply a market to try and stop there being competition. The behaviour seems to be anti-competitive; fortunately , I think that Virgin has enough resources to be able to handle the attack

Fortunately, there are plenty of airlines for international travel to choose from; Qantas these days doesn't seem to have a wonderfully extensive network anyway. Looking at the route map there seems to be

North America, 4 destinations
South America 1
Africa , 1
Europe , 2
SWP , 4 in NZ , plus seems to be Port Moresby, noumea
Asia , seems to be about 7

And the way things are going - one would have to question how safe destinations such as FRA, CGK, CHC, HNL and MNL are on the Qantas-operated network. FRA is one of the last destinations guaranteed not to get the new product, CGK, MNL and HNL are less than daily, and CHC is a token daily flght that could easily be operated by JQ. Also by cutting these destinations, QF can still claim it flies to all six continents! :rolleyes:

And the way things are going - one would have to question how safe destinations such as FRA, CGK, CHC, HNL and MNL are on the Qantas-operated network. FRA is one of the last destinations guaranteed not to get the new product, CGK, MNL and HNL are less than daily, and CHC is a token daily flght that could easily be operated by JQ. Also by cutting these destinations, QF can still claim it flies to all six continents!

Based on there being 6 continents...

America : Yup
Europe : Yup
Asia : Yup
Africa : Yup
Australia : Yup
Antartica : Well... there don't seem to be that many scheduled services there :)

Regardless, there only seems to be about 20 international destinations that Qantas flies too ( and even Qantas doesn't make much of an effort to treat NZ as international which is 4 of them ). If they continue to reduce the number of destinations, the need for new aeroplanes does nicely drop

Dave

Based on there being 6 continents...

America : Yup
Europe : Yup
Asia : Yup
Africa : Yup
Australia : Yup
Antartica : Well... there don't seem to be that many scheduled services there :)

Regardless, there only seems to be about 20 international destinations that Qantas flies too ( and even Qantas doesn't make much of an effort to treat NZ as international which is 4 of them ). If they continue to reduce the number of destinations, the need for new aeroplanes does nicely drop


I imagine that America is counted as two continents (North and South America)

I imagine that America is counted as two continents (North and South America)

The comment was that QF can still claim it flies to all six continents! Antartica is one of the continents

In a traditional 6 continent set, America contains north and south; in a common 7 continent group, then North and South are separate

Based on there being 6 continents...

Antartica : Well... there don't seem to be that many scheduled services there :)

Dave

Qantas do fly around over Antartica for more than 2 or 3 hrs but never touch down yet... and also it's for charter flights..lol