Thank you (Mark and David R)... where are you seeing airfares? I don't have direct GDS access, but I can't find the flights on Qantas's US web site or on meta-search sites like Mobissimo. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Mar 3, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote: > > QF has traffic rights and the airfares are pretty good > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Michael C. Berch > Sent: March 3, 2006 6:00 PM > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Qantas service SFO-YVR? > > I work on airline/airport articles on Wikipedia, and one of my > colleagues > noted a Qantas press release announcing the resumption of service from > Sydney to SFO later this month, which is of course very welcome. > (Although, > since I am wedded to UA and StarAlliance, I'll probably never get > to take > it.) The press release also refers to a planned "extension" of the > route to > Vancouver during the northern- summer peak season, and my colleague > added > Vancouver as a destination to the Qantas listing in the SFO article. > (Wikiproject Airports has a somewhat strict definition of > "destination" for > the purpose of airport articles; this gets discussed a lot, especially > whether to list destinations that are not non-stop for segment-length > reasons, but are marketed as "direct", like LHR-SYD which stops at > BKK; plus > UA and others use through flight numbers with change-of-gauge at > hubs, like > SFO-IAD-FRA, and so forth.) > > In any case, does anyone know if QF actually has traffic rights > SFO- YVR, or > if the segment is only available to YVR through pax to/from > SYD? (I'm interested for myself as well as for Wikipedia, since I > got to Vancouver now and then, and it would be a big hoot to do it > on a QF > 744!) > > -- > Michael C. Berch > mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx