Originally Posted by
catmndu
Where did you hear that Qantas was cancelling mel-akl-lax? thanks
Media release on the
QF website reporting verbatim Alan Joyce's speech on QF's half-year results
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Today I announce that we will also be withdrawing services from the Singapore-Mumbai and Auckland-Los Angeles routes in May.
We will replace our B747 Sydney services to Bangkok with A330 aircraft from June.
And on the Sydney-Auckland route, A330s will be replaced with B737-800 aircraft.
We are adding wide body A330 aircraft to Melbourne-Perth and allocating A330s on certain services between Sydney and Perth in place of B747s.
With these network changes and with a critical mass of 12 A380s in our fleet, we will be retiring two B747s in addition to the four that are due to retire in April this year.
This accelerates our plan to simplify and modernise our fleet.
We continue innovating to be Best for Global Travellers.
Two B747s have been upgraded to A380 product standards, with seven to follow soon.
We have commenced award-winning A380 services to Hong Kong.
We are expanding and improving our international lounges.
In response to a rebound in the Japan market we will be moving to daily B747 Japan services, up from six per week.
We will offer increased premium service from Los Angeles to New York with our upgraded B747 aircraft.
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Personally, I had hoped that the "rebound in the Japan market" would have meant resumption of the PER-NRT service, which was stopped after the tsunami/Fukushimi events