Originally Posted by RickyT
IMHO, Qantas should order the A330 series to replace its aging B767-300 (but bearing in mind the oldest is still relatively young at 15 years old). I personally find them to be a better aircraft to travel in.
That was the original plan that 330's ops trunk domestic routes but this caused serious operational problems with turnaround times being quite lengthy etc.
The plan B is being executed and is to move the 330's to the longer domestic ops and then to fit them out for INT service for the Asian routes and to pull the 767's from them onto the trunk domestic ops. These 767's hours are getting high but their cycles are quite low so the best utilisation for the remainder of their life will be on the golden triangle.