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Old Jun 9, 2019 | 9:24 am
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Onwards to Summer 2020 - No news is good news

Had a quick look through the schedule for Summer 2020 (ie last weekend of March 2020 onwards), good news is, in general no loss of F again so far!

Regionals - PEK continues to be the 2nd HND with CX committing to F for the third continuous year. Otherwise no significant changes

India/ME/Africa - TLV daily upgauged to 351 for April and May 2020; DXB O/D flight upgauged to 2 class B77K; BAH to stay; no 77W to CMB; otherwise no changes.

Aus/NZ - a bit of a downgauge for previously announced upgauges in the preceding season; including SYD back to 2x 333 2x 77W; MEL and PER 351 flights back to 359; BNE additional flights do not seem to be operating (so just one daily 359 flight); other ports/rotations no changes.

Europe - MAN and FCO upgauges to 351 from 359 effective 30 May 2020 onwards for summer peak period; CDG additional flights do not seem to be loaded and maintains 10x weekly; FRA 2nd daytime flight continues to run; MAD starts with 5x weekly 351 and additional 2x 359 to make it daily after 30 May 2020; BCN follows 4x 351 weekly just like this summer season; other ports/rotations no changes.

Americas - LAX day flight 884/885 uses 3 class 77K on Mon and Tues throughout schedule; SFO 3rd daily flight maintains 359 through schedule; IAD upgauges to 351; SEA currently showing 4x weekly; YYZ 3x weekly day flight rotation switches from 77K to 351 as previously announced; other ports/rotations no changes.

I believe much like the 2nd FRA flight, some 'newly launched' frequencies in the recent year may be added back later on but not at the moment.

P.S. You may be interested to know that all YYZ base crew have already been dismissed; there are none of them in the air anymore already.

Amendments for Winter 2019/2020 bolded below:

Originally Posted by G-CIVC
As the schedule for Winter 2019/2020 gets loaded, we can often see what goes, what stays and what changes (at least as per their preliminary planning...)

Europe:
- No loss of F as of now
- ZRH, MAD, AMS remain 351 (AMS gets 77G/K for the Summer)
- FRA 2nd flight is nowhere to be seen (or not yet loaded) it will continue to run
- Paris: additional 4 frequencies (359 evening redeye) not running
- Manchester: upgauges to 351 effective December 2019 through end of season, back to 359 after that.


Americas:
- No changes as of now / no loss of F for now
- IAD filed with 351 for now will be operated by 359 now.
- CX 884/5 LAX day flights retains F as of now
- Seattle - 5 times weekly 359 throughout the winter.

ME/India/Africa:
- The entire DXB redeye + BAH tag flight is removed from schedule, looks like only the DXB terminating flight stays on for now. They will still be flying to BAH
- TLV goes daily using 359 (seems irrespective of/unrelated to Jewish holiday schedule) upgauge to A351 for November
- CPT will be back as of now!
- BOM/MAA fully going 77G/K with PEY sold, same for 1 frequency to DEL

Oceania:
- 351 to AKL is removed again - maybe a bit of wait and see Double daily 351 until March 1 as previously announced
- SYD movements: CX161/2 downgauged back to 333, while CX111/0 sees 359, SYD folks finally get 350s
- No trace of CHC now, but seems that it doesn't start until late Nov as per this year's schedule. It will be running as usual along with extra 4th weekly flight Dec 2019 onwards
- Cairns - will be leaving the network as previously announced.

Regionals:
- I'm not sure if I've digged through every port
- Seems that PEK will continue to have 'guaranteed' F for a 4th season running.
- Extra NRT flight 526/7 continues to run next Winter.
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