Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Fortunately, there are other options for international travel and will tend to choose them; like nonce, once the daytime SIN-SYD disappears then I definitely will not be using them for Asia trips
Same here, only out of LHR.
I take a round the world trip every year. I prefer the east bound routing normally starting with Australia or Asia-North America so I 'gain' a day crossing the dateline and I find east bound better for jetlag. Which means I have a Europe-Asia leg towards the end.
Currently, I prefer to travel LHR-SIN on QF32, spend the day in SIN then take an overnight flight on to Japan (now JL36/QF4025) or Australia (QF10). But with these upcoming flight changes to/from LHR...
LHR-Asia Oneworld departures
now:
HKG 1125 (CX), 1805 (CX), 1840 (BA), 2045 (CX), 2100 (BA), 2205 (CX), 2230 (QF [and last year, that was a lunch time departure])
BKK 2115 (BA), 2210 (QF)
SIN 1105 (QF), 2030 (BA), 2130 (QF), 2155 (BA)
TYO 0805 (BA), 1225 (BA), 1900 (JL)
April:
HKG 1200 (BA), 1230 (CX), 1820 (CX), 1840 (BA), 2015 (CX), 2200 (BA), 2220 (CX)
BKK 2215 (BA)
SIN 2030 (BA), 2115 (BA), 2130 (QF), 2230 (QF)
TYO 0910 (BA), 1325 (BA), 1915 (JL)
With no lunch time departure to SIN, I can no longer spend the day shopping in the city between flights and forces me to spend an extra night in Singapore if I were still to follow my normal routing. That just isn't going to happen. It means I'm going to have to go somewhere else before or instead of SIN. Either way, QF loses as my Europe-Asia travel moves from QF to CX or JL.