{"id":3203,"date":"2008-07-02T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2008-07-02T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T04:44:00","slug":"new-aircraft-for-perth-melbourne-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/07\/new-aircraft-for-perth-melbourne-route\/","title":{"rendered":"New Aircraft for Perth-Melbourne Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com.au\/img\/page_graphics\/graphics\/flying_with_us\/in_the_air\/our_aircraft\/img_plane_330200.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 79px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com.au\/img\/page_graphics\/graphics\/flying_with_us\/in_the_air\/our_aircraft\/img_plane_330200.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qantas today announced it would replace its Boeing 747-300 aircraft on the Perth-Melbourne route with brand new Airbus A330-200 aircraft from today.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas Regional General Manager Western Australia, Mr Ian Gay, said 13 out of 48 weekly return Perth-Melbourne services would be operated by the new aircraft. A further 10 return services each week would be upgraded from B737-400 to B767-300 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new A330-200 aircraft will be dedicated to Perth services and will enable us to offer our West Australian customers greater reliability when travelling to the east coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be closely monitoring demand for services over the coming months, with the intention of increasing frequencies on the route late this year.&#8221; Mr Gay also said schedule adjustments would enable the airline to offer a 6:40pm Melbourne-Perth service six days a week from today. This service previously departed at 7:40pm, and the new time will offer Perth business travellers an earlier departure from Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.fotopic.net\/yyfpgh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fotopic.net\/yyfpgh.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Qantas will also gradually retire its older B747-300 aircraft from the Perth-Sydney route from September this year and replace them with Airbus A330-200 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas recently added extra services from Perth to the mining destinations of Newman and Port Hedland and upgraded services between Perth and Kalgoorlie and Karratha to larger aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas operates 321 domestic return services from Perth each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas today announced it would replace its Boeing 747-300 aircraft on the Perth-Melbourne route with brand new Airbus A330-200 aircraft from today. Qantas Regional General Manager Western Australia, Mr Ian Gay, said 13 out of 48 weekly return Perth-Melbourne services would be operated by the new aircraft. A further 10 return services each week would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}