Major restructure of Qantas services to Japan.
Declining passenger loads and mounting losses on the route have led Qantas to restructure its Japan services, with increased flights from Sydney to Tokyo this October but a reduction in direct flights from Melbourne to Tokyo, with the changes will resulting in the net loss of 349 seats a week.
Qantas will increase the number of flights from Sydney to Tokyo from seven to eleven a week and reduce its daily Melbourne to Tokyo service to three direct flights a week, with the fourth weekly service flying through Sydney.
Qantas is also replacing a 450-seat Boeing 747-300 on the Sydney route with its 307-seat Airbus A330-300s and this has resulted in the decrease.
Qantas business class SkyBeds will be introduced on the Tokyo route though, three years after they were first introduced on other services and the changes ar einadvance of the launch of Jetstar services to Osaka in late November.
Qantas flies 45 times a week to Japan, which includes services previously operated by Australian Airlines, rebadged into the Qantas livery, but Qantas keeping its lower payed Australian Airlines labour agreements in place under a wet lease arrangement with AA, with crews wearing Qantas uniforms as reported recently by The Mole.
Report by The Mole
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