Emirates just ditched DXB - SIN - MEL route.  When Emirates started out, there were numerous stopovers in Asia given Asia is the mid point between Dubai and Australia even though aircrafts could do a direct dash between DXB and Australia.  Also the fifth freedom enabled the airline to p...

Back in 2015-16 the flight times were:EK404:   DXB - SIN - MEL   0900 - 2000;  2200 - 0800EK405:   MEL - SIN - DXB   1800 - 2350;  0130 - 0430This was popular then and even an A380 was deployed which was amazing.  This schedule also was timed...

It looks like this flight is in addition to the IST - SIN flights.  TK is already doing 2x daily IST - SIN.  These 3 MEL (via SIN) flights will be additional the double daily SIN flights. This makes sense the MEL - SIN - IST will be tailored more for travellers going straight to IST tha...

From load and commercial perspectives, SIN makes sense to be selected as the stop-over choice despite numerous airlines operating this route.  Agree that BKK needs some competition plus BKK has 3 daily flights from IST.  The timing for the return leg will make MEL - SIN sector rather un...

For QF to do daily SYD and MEL to LHR direct, it only requires 4 aircrafts (A350s). With SYD-JFK another two. There are still 6 left for QF to decide what they going to do with them, whether PER-LHR, FRA, CDG, MIA, CPT, Sao Paulo or Chicago.   For 2 aircrafts to do a daily route of SYD...