Originally Posted by MKS11 Can someone please explain to me, at a time of apparent capacity issues, that 4 x A220 (so far, with next one not due until December) covers the retirement of 20 x B717s at QF??? There has been a lot of 737 flying on what were previously 717 routes, such as S...

I'm a Qantas Bronze FF, with no status except Qantas Club membership. I manged to snag a business class upgrade using points on QF35 (MEL-SIN) three months ago. What surprised me even more more was that when I checked in, the Qantas agent told me that a lot of people would be disappointed as the...

Originally Posted by hakkinen5 Being reported in Malaysian media now that Emirates have applied to Singapore authorities to pull out of the Melbourne to Singapore route and have its capacity controls released (as was required with the QF/Emirates tie up). Surely Qantas would now reinstate the A38...

Originally Posted by wdeguara Bonza may have gone but has it shown that there is indeed a market for regional point-to-point routes ? I notice in the aviation press that some routes were operating at 70-90% capacity. With Qantas' order of 29 A220's could it be they intend to service the demand th...

Blind Freddy could see that Bonza's business model was never going to work. Flying 737 MAX aircraft, once, twice or three times per week to regional centres was destined to fail.