August 30, 201312 yr You can cross out Coffs Harbour as a destination. It is capable of handling aircraft up to a 767, but no larger. I live 4 minutes from the airport and have never seen a 767 here. I have, however, seen a C-17 Globemaster II doing touch-and-go training numerous times. And Sydney - Gold Coast ?
August 30, 201312 yr And Sydney - Gold Coast ? As far as I know, no 777 goes into the Gold Coast. Matthew Bellette
August 30, 201312 yr I thought Scoot's 777s did go to Gold Coast? From Sydney ? No From Singapore To Gold Coast Sydney - Singapore
August 30, 201312 yr As far as I know, no 777 goes into the Gold Coast. So what does Scoot fly there then? Brent Lewis
August 30, 201312 yr So what does Scoot fly there then? My mistake. I thought they flew the 767 into there. It seems they are the first airline to fly the 777 into the Gold Coast. Can find a pic of the aircraft on airliners.net website. Matthew Bellette
August 30, 201312 yr Was the OP only after real life short haul sectors? If so you're basically limited to Air New Zealand and Emirates trans tasman flights. If you want to be creative and fly 777 routes that don't exist there are many combinations Going clockwise in Australia YPDN Darwin NT YBAS Alice Springs NT YBCS Cairns QLD YBTL Townsville QLD YBRK Rockhampton QLD YBBN Brisbane QLD YBCG Gold Coast QLD YSSY Sydney NSW YSCB Canberra ACT YMML Melbourne VIC YMAV Avalon VIC YMHB Hobart TAS YPPH Perth WA Can all take reasonably heavy 777's If you have a light load there are probably a dozen more airports that come into play Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk 4 Jason Carruthers
August 30, 201312 yr Author Thanks all very much for the replies so far, you're all very generous. I'll definitely look into crossing the Tasman sea, but if SYD-MEL is done in real life that will be high my list of regular flights. SYD- Brisbane will be good too. Cheers Jason. I was more into the real-life sectors to get an idea of what is realistically done with the plane, so now that I know that short sectors are possible I'll look into utilising those airports as well (I've got ORBX's payware versions for most of them). James
August 30, 201312 yr My mistake. I thought they flew the 767 into there. It seems they are the first airline to fly the 777 into the Gold Coast. Can find a pic of the aircraft on airliners.net website. Basically, Scoot is a more of a Singaporean low cost airline, affiliated to Singapore Airlines, and they only have 777s in their fleet. I LOVE 777s!
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August 30, 201312 yr Ive travelled from Noi Bai Int'l (Hanoi) to Changi International (Singapore) on a 777-300ER Sq 175. Flight aware reckons it is an A330 however o the SIngapore site its still a 777. That only about 2-3 hrs.
August 30, 201312 yr Asia has a tonne of 777 short haul flights. Australia doesn't really have any apart from the mentioned ones, like the UA777s..... Even in the states a lot of aircraft are MD90 and 737s, like we have here. The biggest aircraft they use for two capital cities is the 767 in regular service. Smaller is better when it comes to large land mass countries due to the amount of destinations, but in Asia where the opposite exists, it is opposite. Bigger aircraft for less destinations and smaller land mass. Look at Japan for example. Huge population is such a small area. Australia has the exact opposite. You can go for 1000 km straight by car in Australia and no city or town....no anything! Test my theory, drive the Eyre Highway across the Nullabor........ Signed regards, Daniel
August 31, 201312 yr Asia has a tonne of 777 short haul flights. Australia doesn't really have any apart from the mentioned ones, like the UA777s..... Even in the states a lot of aircraft are MD90 and 737s, like we have here. The biggest aircraft they use for two capital cities is the 767 in regular service. Smaller is better when it comes to large land mass countries due to the amount of destinations, but in Asia where the opposite exists, it is opposite. Bigger aircraft for less destinations and smaller land mass. Look at Japan for example. Huge population is such a small area. Australia has the exact opposite. You can go for 1000 km straight by car in Australia and no city or town....no anything! Test my theory, drive the Eyre Highway across the Nullabor........ Signed regards, Daniel Plenty of fun to be had on the Eyre Highway. No airports with sealed runways though Gets a bit quiet west of Yalata too. Still, Eucla's a bit of an interesting place. The orignal town had to be moved due to encroachment of sand dunes. the old telegraph station is still there, half buried these days... actually more like 3/4 buried. Apparently if you send a letter to Eucla, the mail truck only goes out once a fortnight and originates from Norseman. Go a couple km east from Eucla and they fine you if you have fruit in your car. Most of the State Capitals have a fair amount of RPT jet traffic. Sydney-Melbourne even gets 767's and A330's as part of the Qantas Citiflyer, and currently the United Airlines daily 747-400, which is due to be replaced with 777 shortly as part of their fleet/route restructure. This will put a 777 on a daily route on Sydney-Melbourne-Sydney inbetween it's flights in/out of Los Angeles. The main reason Sydney-Melbourne or Sydney-Perth doesn't get more 777's however, is Qantas' stupid management deciding 1: to negotiate with Boeing in the early development phase of the 777 back in the 1990's, and 2: deciding not to get any, because ... of silly reasons and things. Instead, Qantas purchased some A330's for Jetstar to use. Trent Hopkinson, 2015 Crewmember of www.mangrove.com.au WorldFlight sim Youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/musicalaviator
August 31, 201312 yr Plenty of fun to be had on the Eyre Highway. No airports with sealed runways though Gets a bit quiet west of Yalata too. Still, Eucla's a bit of an interesting place. The orignal town had to be moved due to encroachment of sand dunes. the old telegraph station is still there, half buried these days... actually more like 3/4 buried. Apparently if you send a letter to Eucla, the mail truck only goes out once a fortnight and originates from Norseman. Go a couple km east from Eucla and they fine you if you have fruit in your car. Most of the State Capitals have a fair amount of RPT jet traffic. Sydney-Melbourne even gets 767's and A330's as part of the Qantas Citiflyer, and currently the United Airlines daily 747-400, which is due to be replaced with 777 shortly as part of their fleet/route restructure. This will put a 777 on a daily route on Sydney-Melbourne-Sydney inbetween it's flights in/out of Los Angeles. The main reason Sydney-Melbourne or Sydney-Perth doesn't get more 777's however, is Qantas' stupid management deciding 1: to negotiate with Boeing in the early development phase of the 777 back in the 1990's, and 2: deciding not to get any, because ... of silly reasons and things. Instead, Qantas purchased some A330's for Jetstar to use. Excellent post Trent! Yes I think you need a 4WD or a good set of walking legs to visit that telegraph station..... You did use to see cops regularly patrolling out there though, there is a cop shop at Eucla....at the Border they have now moved the quarantine station. I think you don't get fined as long as you declare? I'm not totally sure, a bit like AQIS at airports (Domestic AND International I suppose but the International is more stringent-though the dogs are used at domestic more). You are right. The 747s are used between Sydney and Melbourne and even Perth and Sydney until recently, off and on. Also I didn't mention the A330, a more comfortable a/c than the 767. I agree too, QANTAS under previous management failed to grasp the qualities (or if they did failed to convince their financial board it was going to be a good purchase) of the 777. But still the A330 is cheaper and there is a reason that Cathay flys it to Sydney 4 times a day instead of the 777....China Southern Airlines and EK plus others are now out for competition...... Saying all this though, it is kind of a recession still and EK is flying 3 777-300ERs to Perth a day and one -200......as well as SIA doing its normal three or four times a day..... Perth has grown exceptionally except QANTAS has withdrawn almost 100% of its entire International services from YPPH. A lot of people in Perth prefer the foreign airlines as the better service is just too good to turn down. Everyone is really happy with Emirates right now, and QATAR also flies into here as with China Southern, which never used too before. There are plans for a railway between the Airport and the city now. Soon all services will be at the International termi9nal with $650 million in road works around the airport starting from this month. It is called the Perth Gateway project. According to the web site it is more like $1Billion than the figure I quoted above. http://gatewaywa.com.au/ Signed, Regards, Daniel
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