Qantas Airbus A220-300: What To Expect

For a full-service carrier I think excluding screens was a big mistake. Qantas is the most premium airline domestically and have invested a lot in their onboard entertainment on the entire mainline fleet. This offering is now on par with many low cost carriers. These planes will fly short hops but also transcon flights from regional areas. 5 hours with a phone or a tablet, all those charging cables getting in the way is not exactly a premium experience. But the rest of the plane is great. Just wish they followed Air Canada / Delta with a true mainline passenger experience.

I understood these planes were to be used by QantasLink, rather than part of the Qantas mainline fleet.

They will be QantasLink. And most of the flights will be 1.5-2.5 hours so a screen won't be that useful.

Am I crazy or do these seats seem super comphy (cushany), more than what the regular standard first class seats looks like these days??

Surprised they're running the A220 on Melbourne to Brisbane, thats a busy route and not a QantasLink route. Maybe because they have so many daily flights they will use it for downgrades when they can't fill a 737.

It probably wouldn’t need to worry about economy class seat pitch because it’s Recaro, Maybe my back I need to worry about lol. And hopefully flights with this plane would be under 2.5 hours

I really like the finishes. The current Qantas domestic interiors are okay but rather gloomy and I think the lighter seats in economy are much nicer; I just hope the6 can keep them clean. From what I understand that’s as much to do with the fabric as the colour so hopefully they’ve chosen something stain resistant and easy to clean. It certainly looks much nicer than the 717, IMO.
Somewhat disappointing they haven’t installed PTVs but I’ve found their streaming to be fairly solid.

What really counts in this situation is access to WiFi.
For the Business types, they can do work; for Leisure, seeking entertainment, especially with child in tow.

Qantas would be really smart if they start tackling regional NZ airports and flew from Sydney using these planes. If they flew to Nelson, New Plymouth or Rotorua from Sydney they could seriously take away Air NZ's strategic monopoly over international flights out of the country. Not only would they offer better connections to the Asia pacific region, but they would also give residents of these towns marginally longer connection time to North America as well. I think it would really boost Qantas's rep with NZers as most of the country is tired of being milked by Air NZ while would also economically make sense as these planes are very cost effective and these towns have sizeable populations.

Would like to see these on the BNE-ADL route currently serviced by ancient Alliance aircraft.