Qantas’ longest flight is back to making a fuel stop for the foreseeable future, given current tensions in the Middle East.
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It will last until Iran decides to shut up again with all those delusional tales and threat's and divert again to using Hezbollah and Hamas instead of attacking directly. Although Hamas kinda got destroyed already really, now it's mainly just Hezbollah that's left for Iran.
Qantas operates QF1 Sydney-London via Singapore on the A380. There is no flight linking Melbourne to London via anywhere at the moment. QF9 used to originate in Melbourne, but this has since been axed in favour of a Perth-London only flight.
Isn't this the second or third time they've had to do this, for the same reason? Sucks.
The fact that y'all assume my dismay towards Iran and Hamas means I'm a Ben gvir supporter tells more about you than me. Ben gvir is a terroist himself and also doesn't have excuses. Keep supporting islamist terroist organizations, in fact I know that the houtins invited y'all for their learning camp if you're that eager to help them and their counterparts.
RE Qantas Melbourne to London.
QF9 used to route MEL - PER - LHR and vv. Loads on the MEL - PER - MEL sector were often in the double digits so the MEL tag is no longer. The MEL tag finished the same day as PER CDG commenced.
This is the second time QF9 re-routed via SIN. It did exactly the same in APR of this year due to the same reason for a period of around 14 days.
The flight departs PER around 4hr earlier than usual to allow an arrival time at LHR the same as usual (05:05).
The PER - LHR flights are operated by LHR based Qantas crews who will now operate LHR - PER - SIN - LHR.
If the current restrictions continue, will those A350-1000 make it to LHR/JFK without a fuel stop? I have a feeling all those airspace restrictions will not be lifted any time soon.
Man, i said you are boring, boring in the sense this is a travel blog and im not keen on hearing your policy agenda (fair or not!).
I read everyday TOI and that shocking statement that im promoting whatever you want because YOU are annoying is just baseless, absurd and dumb..
No airspace restrictions over the Pacific, so the JFK flight won’t be impacted.
Given that governments around the world are urging Iran to cool the threats of further attacks to Israel and Iran is using proxies to accomplish its work in the Middle East not just at Israel but the entire Middle East, there is no safe place for civilian aviation in the "heart of" the Middle East just as is true with civilian shipping which has seen civilians vessels sunk and damaged sending shipping rates higher and forcing lengthy shipping reroutes.
The problem for Australia is that the only "safe" route from SE Asia to Europe - via northern India, across the "Stans", crossing the Caspian Sea at Baku, along the southern part of the Black Sea - is too far north to be viable for routes from Australia.
It is actually amazing that as much air traffic is being forced through the same "safe route" but there are scores of flights that now do it daily between Europe and Asia.
SQ's NYC-SIN flights do not overfly Iran and instead use the "safe route." Going eastbound, they can usually fly the Pacific but the earth's rotation and associated winds make it impossible to always fly the Pacific.
It is doubtful that even the QF 35Ks from SYD to LHR can fly the route nonstop if they are forced to use the "safe route" without taking even further payload restrictions.
Mossad and the Israeli Secret Intelligent Service (ISIS) need to stop with their maniacal extremism and genocide. Enough is enough.
In a world full of illegitimate governments, the only thing that can keep them in check is other illegitimate governments. Lord knows the US doesn’t mind Ben Gvirs terror. The right wing supports it and the liberals pretend to oppose it unless they are in power.
It was Palestinian extremism that started this entire debacle and they still refuse to release the remaining hostages. Hamas could end this war if they cared about their citizens, but they don’t want peace or a two state solution. They only seek destruction and death. It’s literally their manifesto.
Nakba 1948 started all of this, Vernon C.
Do some reading rather than spouting Ben Gvir’s extremist drivel.
and the liberals pretend to oppose it unless they are in power
This.
Every mention of Israel on any site creates lots of noise
and, yes, no one should be surprised that this and most other media sites live on page clicks; truth and accuracy are secondary at best
Let’s get some delusional tales up Benjamin Netanyahu‘s ass. His time has come.