Originally Posted by
MANCHESTER
...I am about to book an F award ticket for MEL-HKG for Jan 2012. Will be really annoyed if this does not have F as am really keen to try the F lounge. From those who understand the changes, does it seem likely that this will have F? It is currently selling F. If not, will book an A380 flight to SIN as a guarantee....
The current plan is to offer F MEL-HKG until 2Q2012, so you will have F unless that plan is changed (so almost a sure thing). However F on A380 is much nicer than F on 744, fwiw.
Originally Posted by
crispycrouton
I see, so those 9 744s which won't have A380 style F seats will fly the non-A380 routes flown by the current 744s that do not offer F service:
SYD-EZE/SCL
SYD-DFW
SYD-NRT
SYD-SIN-FRA
BNE-LAX (first to be flown)
BNE-SIN
What about those 744 routes with F service? Like SYD-HKG which will continue to have F service even after 25 Mar 12.
As the 744s are retired, the fleet of 9 will not be enough to serve all of those routes, so some of these routes will become A330 routes (or be dropped). I haven't worked out the rotation schedule, but with 9 planes it can service SYD-DFW/JNB/SCL daily and maybe only 1 other route, presumably BNE-LAX. FRA either becomes an A380 or is dropped, and SYD-NRT and BNE-SIN become A330. Really grim with only 21 long-haul A380/744 planes, QF International seems to become bare bones.