Flight number changes

[oz_mark]

http://www.qantas.com.au/agents/dyn/qf/info/QantasFlightNumberChanges290208.pdf

Effective for travel from 26th October 2008, some Qantas flight numbers will change.

The schedule change will be published on Friday 29 February.

Existing bookings will be updated with the new flight numbers. Tickets should be

changed to reflect the new flight numbers to ensure customers are not impacted on
departure. Bookings made in Amadeus will have their e-tickets updated automatically.
Tickets issued on other GDS’s can be revalidated, which will not incur change fees associated with the fare.
Below is a list of the flight number changes.
Route Current Flight New Flight
SYD-PEK QF191 QF105
PEK-SYD QF192 QF106
SYD-HKG QF187 QF87
HKG-SYD QF188 QF88
MEL-NRT QF179 QF119
NRT-MEL QF180 QF120
NRT-PER QF70 QF80
BNE-LAX QF175 QF15
LAX-BNE QF176 QF16
SYD-AKL QF189 QF113
SYD-AKL QF163 QF141
AKL-SYD QF190 QF114
AKL-SYD QF164 QF142
AKL-SYD QF40 QF50
MEL-AKL QF39 QF133
BNE-NOU QF99 QF89
Other flight number changes
Rome World Youth Day supplementary flights QF15 and QF16 operating in July will be renumbered to QF155 and QF156.​

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[docjames]

OK, i'll go first - why bother?

 

[JohnK]

I think they may be planning to introduce some new routes and are allocating the unused smaller flight numbers to existing routes.

Or maybe someone was bored....

 

[NM]

It looks like they are freeing up the flight numbers above QF150. We know that currently the flight numbers QF300-399 are used for codeshares, and QF200s are currently JQ oprated codeshares. Perhaps they are planning more JQ codeshares so need a bigger flight number range?

 

[serfty]

OK, i'll go first - why bother?

Well, it's bit of tidying up in some ways.

e.g. MEL has QF39 to AKL and QF134 on the return; this change gives a QF133/QF134 pairing.

This is a leftover from the days when there were more flights betwixt MEL and AKL - QF25/QF26 being switched from BNE meant a few of these other flights were no longer required and the 'pairings' lost.