Press release:
https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/me...d-partnership/
Schedule hasn't been filed. Likely will sit on top of the BA flights.
- QF 1/2 to fly via Singapore to London instead of Dubai
- Qantas A380 daily Melbourne-Singapore service introduced
- Emirates’ network into Europe remains key for our customers
I’m [Alan Joyce] pleased to share our plans to extend our cornerstone partnership with Emirates for another five years, with some important changes.
The partnership has been extremely successful for Qantas. For instance, we’ve seen the number of passengers travelling on QF code to Europe increase from 400,000 to 1.2 million. On average more than 10,000 Emirates passengers have travelled on Qantas’ domestic and regional services within Australia each month.
Since 2012, we’ve also seen changes to customer demand, aircraft technology and the networks of both airlines. So, we’re making some adjustments to evolve the partnership from 25 March 2018.
This will include re-routing our daily Sydney-London A380 service via Singapore rather than Dubai, and upgrading our existing daily Melbourne-Singapore flight from an A330 to an A380. As already announced, QF9/10 will fly Melbourne-Perth-London on the Dreamliner instead of Melbourne-Dubai-London on the A380.
These adjustments give Qantas passengers three options to Europe – via Dubai, Perth, or Singapore. It will also provide financial upside to both airlines, with the estimated net benefit to Qantas in excess of $80 million per year from FY19 onwards.