I thought the big Q outsourced it's maintenance to Asia?

Also I've flown Cathay, Emirates, Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin, Easy Jet, Ryan Air, Air France, Air Lingus, Ethihad, Singapore Airlines, Delta Airlines (I think that's them all). Ohh and a couple of random Italian airlines for internal flights

Best service: Emirates/Singapore Airlines
Honourable Mention: Q, Air lingus, Air France
Worst Service: Delta, Etihad

BUT in terms of inflight entertainment

Best: Q, Ethihad, Emirates, Singapore.
Worst: DELTA!!! and Q (years ago)
N/A: Air Lingus, Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Jetstar, VB - they don't offer inflight entertainment

EDIT: Remembered more airlines I've flown; BA, flybe, BMI

last edited by HeardY at 12:27:43 06/Nov/09

yeah we have interline deals aswell. im not ragging out on qantas. i've flown them a few times they were great. but for just going domestic i dont need entertainment and food/drink(except perth - 6 hours in our little seats suck) i dont fly for business so i don't mind when i get there aslong as i get there.

and virgin does have foxtel on most planes. yeah it cost $5-10 buts it pretty good. not all channels but foxsports atleast.
and virgin tech does all our mantainence as far as i know.
im just a baggy i don't really care. free flights is all im interested in.

last edited by WreckTim at 12:45:45 06/Nov/09

When I fly O/S I try to do so with Singapore Airlines as much as possible. JAL or Qantas come in second. Don't really fly with anybody else. Domestically it's usually Qantas or Virgin. Don't care too much which except maybe to and from Perth I generally go Qantas.

After flying in China a lot with Chinese Airlines it's a great feeling getting on a Qantas flight with an Australian crew. I usually fly Qantas when going to China or Japan, straight through with no stopovers (except for Sydney, but that's better than a few hours in Singapore). Everywhere else is usually Singapore Airlines.

I thought the big Q outsourced it's maintenance to Asia?

qantas has heavy maintenance bases at brisbane airport (767s and a330s), melbourne airport (737s) and avalon (747s), and sydney does the A checks (1 - 3 days) that are required every 1000hours of flying or something like that, i forgot

the brisbane facility and the avalon facility outsource aircraft to asian providers that can't be slotted into a hangar in australia when its maintenance is due. theres been quite a few go overseas this year and last (i got to go and oversee one of them in hong kong for 2 months which was cool).

so basically the new management thats come in since dixon was booted has stated that all maintenance is done on shore except for when theres an extra need at odd times in the year as aircraft run out of hours/time before they are due for a maintenance check.

Awesome, good to know!

Keeps jobs in Australia

I have a very bad fear of heights.
My legs go to jelly just watching some movies.
Even a carpark of a few stories gives me the shakes.
going up in a plane ? haha no thx.

^ I hate heights too and flying is no real fun for me but I have no choice. Boats are too slow to travel to Asia/Pacific in. A bummer.

I never knew hunter was scared of heights.