Originally Posted by
briank1973
I can't see them stopping the service to/from MEL. I've been on it a lot, and whereas the loads aren't as high as the SYD-SFO or SYD-LAX flights, UA gets a lot of business from MEL with the MEL-SYD flight.
I assume you mean that UA has enough passengers traveling MEL-USA since no local traffic allowed on MEL-SYD (and there are probably 30 flights a day on other carriers on the latter route anyway).