Who's JQ? -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Grant McKenzie Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 22:07 To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Qantas service SFO-YVR? We have traffic rights, although I don't know how long QF will fly this route. If I was a betting man one of the first North American ports JQ I will serve will be YVR, maybe via HNL. Probably won't happen until 2009 or so though. Grant SYD QF ---- "Michael C. Berch" <mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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