Ethiopian Airlines launches a £1,591 business class flight deal to Johannesburg

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• Pablo says:

  18 Jan18 January 04:16

  Ethiopian fare books into P class. Zero miles in most *A programmes.

  • Daniel says:

    18 Jan18 January 04:23

    Exactly what I came on here to post. I fly them a bit and always have to credit to ShebaMiles.

    • Rob says:

      18 Jan18 January 07:18

      Thanks

    • Peter says:

      18 Jan18 January 09:00

      Why not United?

      • Rob says:

        18 Jan18 January 09:42

        wheretocredit shows United, Thai or Air China would work, but United is the best of the bunch I suspect as it has good value European short haul redemptions on Lufty etc.

• flyforfun says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:58

  Interesting choice of QF to fly the E190s between Darwin and Singapore. The plane can do around 2500 miles and DRW-SIN is around 2000, but it’s around 4 hours. I wonder if QF will offer any IFE or at least wifi to access their infotainment library on your own device.

  I’m assuming they won’t be densified like BA is doing!

  • Rizz says:

    18 Jan18 January 13:19

    BA has been running services to Greece out of LCY for years on the same aircraft, with a four hour flight time being only marginally shorter than the proposed Darwin flight. I bet people will survive fine without IFE and this will be still more comfortable than some of the longer W6 or FR flights.

• Jordan D says:

  18 Jan18 January 11:15

  Qantas are being exceptionally cheeky in the press release. It isn’t launches, it is returns. They operated a SIN-DRW-CNS (Cairns) flight back in the early part of the century (my parents took it in 2000, and per other on Twitter it lasted into that decade), so this is simply bringing part of it back.

  • Bervios says:

    18 Jan18 January 13:24

    Indeed they did, I remember being in Darwin in the early 2000’s and they used a 737 on the route.

  • Tom says:

    18 Jan18 January 16:07

    I remember flying that route in the mid-1980s.

    A 747 flying over the ocean into tiny Cairns airport was a sight. I think it might have been weekly?

• ADS says:

  18 Jan18 January 11:20

  SIN-DRW “Intriguingly, the flights will use an Embraer E190 aircraft”

  I love the 2-2 seating in the E190 … not sure about 4.5 hours in the little brazilian though!

  “The first flight will operate on 9th December and the service will operate five days per week”

  SQ fly the route every day, for anybody desperate to fly on a Tuesday or Thursday when QF don’t operate

  • Rizz says:

    18 Jan18 January 13:22

    Plenty of people have been doing LCY to Santorini (when it was still around) or Mykonos, which are four hours on the “little Brazilian”, and TBH I’d take it any day over an A320 from LHR.

  • Michael Jennings says:

    18 Jan18 January 14:06

    The EMB-190s that Qantas will be using belong to their affiliate Alliance Airlines, and they have either 10 business class seats and 84 Economy Seats or 9 business class seats and 88 Economy seats. This compares to 98 Economy Seats (some of which will be sold as Club Europe) in the BA Cityflyer aircraft. I guess this means that Economy will have a bit less space than on BA Cityflyer.

    • Leigh says:

      18 Jan18 January 23:58

      A bunch of these E190s are ex-AA regional and (I think) Copa airlines, they’ve not been refurbed so still contain those original interiors, no lie-flat of course but a bit bigger 1×2 in J

• Pam says:

  18 Jan18 January 14:03

  I didn’t get any Avios when flew DRW to ASP and MEL to ADL on Qantas. Think maybe as it was City Flyer or something!

• Expat in SJC says:

  18 Jan18 January 15:23

  Ain’t nothing wrong with a E190 on that route. E175s are often used on routes across the States (albeit around 3 and half hours to four) and will be used more so if the max 9 grounding continues. The biggest pain is the lack of ovens but I presume the e190 has ovens at QF.

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