Crew&Management Gossip [New route LHR-TPE-PER]
Sep 22, 2016, 8:43 am
#46
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: NW London and NW Sydney
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Taiwanese people in Australia are mainly to be found in BNE (and SYD/MEL).
PER is more popular with Southeast Asian Chinese (i.e. Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian)
If BA really wanted to serve more Australian cities again as well as Taiwan, I would suggest that LHR-TPE-BNE and extending KUL to PER would make more sense. Switch SIN-SYD to SIN-MEL and extend the HKG A380 to SYD.
Possibly extend the HKG 777 to ADL (CX only does HKG-ADL direct every other day so perhaps they figure there is not enough demand)
PER is more popular with Southeast Asian Chinese (i.e. Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian)
If BA really wanted to serve more Australian cities again as well as Taiwan, I would suggest that LHR-TPE-BNE and extending KUL to PER would make more sense. Switch SIN-SYD to SIN-MEL and extend the HKG A380 to SYD.
Possibly extend the HKG 777 to ADL (CX only does HKG-ADL direct every other day so perhaps they figure there is not enough demand)
Sep 22, 2016, 8:57 am
#47
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Programs: BA Gold (Emerald); Hilton Gold; IHG Platinum; Marriott Gold; Radisson Gold
Posts: 388
My furthest memory - early 90s - is that in addition to the SYD and MEL services, BA equipment also went to BNE with a tag-on to AKL, to ADL as a tag-on from MEL, and to PER.
Sep 22, 2016, 9:24 am
#50
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London, UK
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BR offers the following on the TPE-BKK-LHR route:
Grande Cuvee Champagnes
Royal Salute Whisky
PJs
Direct aisle access
7 course lunch
Rimowa amenity kits
Fiji water
Decent coffee
BA F offers some but not all of the above.
Sep 22, 2016, 9:27 am
#51
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Location: Netherlands
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Last edited by irishguy28; Sep 22, 2016 at 9:33 am
