[轉貼]澳洲航空增購6架波音787-9
資料來源：https://www.ausbt.com.au/qantas-orders-six-more-boeing-787-9-dreamliners?utm_source=heroQantas orders six more Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners
Qantas will today announce an order for six more Boeing 787-9 jets, bringing the total red-tailed Dreamliner fleet to 14 in number.
The first of these additional 787-9s is due to arrive in late 2019, with a rapid delivery of all six by mid-to-late 2020 – just in time for the airline's 100th anniversary in 2020.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce tips that with the new Dreamliners "we’ll be looking at destinations in the Americas, Asia, South Africa and Europe."
Paris and Germany have already been pencilled in as likely European destinations.
The six new Boeing 787-9s will sport the same seating and configuration as the first eight.
Dreamliners in, jumbos out
These additional Dreamliners will allow Qantas to retire its remaining ten Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets by the end of 2020.
Qantas currently flies the ageing and fuel-thirsty jumbo jets to the USA (and seasonally to Vancouver), Asia, South America and South Africa, with some of those routes to be taken over by the Boeing 787 and others handed across to Airbus A330s.
"This really is the end of one era and the start of another," Joyce remarked.
"The jumbo has been the backbone of Qantas International for more than 40 years and we’ve flown almost every type that Boeing built. It’s fitting that its retirement is going to coincide with our centenary in 2020."
“By the end of 2020 we’ll have farewelled the 747, finished upgrading the cabins of our A380s, and welcomed our fourteenth 787."
The airline has not advised where the new Dreamliners will be based; the first order of eight jets was split four-each between Melbourne and Brisbane.
Is this the sweet spot for Qantas' Boeing 787 fleet?
Qantas' second tranche of Boeing 787s is drawn from a total 'orders and options' book of some 45 Dreamliners, although the airline is not expected to take up all of those due to changes in where it will use the Boeing 787s.
The size of the initial order, which stretches back to 2005, reflected Qantas’ intention to have the Boeing 787 replace the Airbus A330 on domestic routes.
However, Joyce has previously told Australian Business Traveller that he longer plans to put the Boeing 787 onto domestic routes.
"Our thinking has evolved... while the 787 as with the A330 are pretty powerful they are over-spec'd" for domestic flights, "so the economics do not work."
Instead, Qantas will revamp its domestic fleet from the mid-2020s with either the advanced Boeing 737 MAX or the Airbus A320neo and the yet-to-be-built mid-sized Boeing 797, which would also pick up some flights into south-east Asia.
789同744原全不同級，QF全用789取代744繼而在長途機隊中產生巨大的座位數空隙，這意味著SYD-HKG/HND可能全年轉用A380，或者再增班
HKG <-> SYD 而家QF有兩班，A330 + B747，B747轉用A380應該大過頭，我估會用A330 + A330 ，但旺季會攝A380 rickywk 發表於 2018-5-2 22:07
HKGSYD 而家QF有兩班，A330 + B747，B747轉用A380應該大過頭，我估會用A330 + A330 ，但旺季會攝A380 ...
其實國泰轉晒77W都成日爆,QF隨時有機會加班算,
特別QF佢Y爆過F/J,開多班A330好過
Oliver_ME16 發表於 2018-5-2 23:59
其實國泰轉晒77W都成日爆,QF隨時有機會加班算,
特別QF佢Y爆過F/J,開多班A330好過
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但我舊年中秋竟然換到QF Y去SYD，回程返香港又換到CX J，仲要兩班都係座位提供數o既A330班次:o
Oliver_ME16 發表於 2018-5-2 23:59
其實國泰轉晒77W都成日爆,QF隨時有機會加班算,
特別QF佢Y爆過F/J,開多班A330好過
...
CX淡季減班比以前全A330多左 借post一問，qf旺季用a380飛syd爆唔爆? 今時今日QF既著眼點係客機既續航能力而唔再放係客量上，QF真係有同時有航程同客量既concern既話，就應該一早去研究下入77W啦
不過話當時又好宜家又好，QF的確係忽略左好多野造成宜家既巨大落差
如果當時widebody有大手入333 / 77W既話個版圖就唔會係宜家咁樣
其實長途機型B77W真係必入的一款機型，尤其QF有咁大客源基本盤
A380同B789/A359個GAP就正正係B77W，基本上B77W個載貨客量同class就只有B748I
QF同MH一樣，都係冇入B77W，結果MH的LHR捱到A359先至甩到A380出黎 本帖最後由 LRT610-1092 於 2018-5-4 21:13 編輯
Oliver_ME16 發表於 2018-5-2 23:59
其實國泰轉晒77W都成日爆,QF隨時有機會加班算,
特別QF佢Y爆過F/J,開多班A330好過
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我剛訂機位時就感受得到了，因為26/7（淡季期間）的SYD機（CX）非常爆（3班77W，161無S位，結果我搶到101的最後5個S位之一）
差不多時間有一班QF的A330，但不知道座位賣得如何（我猜經濟艙也有90%滿，商務艙不太滿）
LRT610-1092 發表於 2018-5-4 21:06
我剛訂機位時就感受得到了，因為26/7（淡季期間）的SYD機（CX）非常爆（3班77W，161無S位，結果我搶到101 ...
7月唔算淡季，同埋絕兩部份旅行社都同QF合作，所以QF 香港線長期有團客支持
不過QF係少數近年財政隱健航司中，每開一條新航線就要係另一條路線減班。
另一個問題QF 2000起 long haul management 失敗先搞到咁，其他航司2000前後大力採購double engine jet ，唯獨QF仍然堅持quad jets ，而且仲要大機喎