Yes they are. First SYD-SFO flight departs April 2 with the YVR tags running from 14th June to 13th August. Grant SYD QF ---- Travel Pages <travelpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The fact that a fare has been filed has nothing to do with schedule. > > Anyone seen a scheduled QF flight SFO-YVR? Not. As far as I can see QF is not actually flying between SFO and YVR. > > Grant McKenzie <gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 International will serve will be YVR, maybe via HNL. Probably won't happen until 2009 or so though. > > Grant > SYD > QF > > > ---- "Michael C. Berch" 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