Melbourne Wednesday 8 March Refuelers' strike

[justinbrett]

QF455, the 1500 hours SYD-MEL (A332 VH-EBA, a widebody) is 98 minutes late with its expected gate time into MEL becoming 1813 hours. Not normal.

Since this is an aircraft flying TO Melbourne, and the outbound from Melbourne was on time, I think it's safe to assume this had nothing to do with the strike - perhaps keep this to your endless QF delays thread and stay on topic here.

 

[Melburnian1]

Since this is an aircraft flying TO Melbourne, and the outbound from Melbourne was on time, I think it's safe to assume this had nothing to do with the strike - perhaps keep this to your endless QF delays thread and stay on topic here.

It had been in Melbourne for c.eight hours so plenty of time to ferret up kilograms of fuel.

Do you know for certain it didn't have to take on extra fuel in SYD so as to be able to complete a return working to/from MEL without much further delay?

It's now operating as QF474, expected at its SYD allocated gate at 2041 hours, 106 minutes late.

 

[justinbrett]

It had been in Melbourne for c.eight hours so plenty of time to ferret up kilograms of fuel.

Do you know for certain it didn't have to take on extra fuel in SYD so as to be able to complete a return working to/from MEL without much further delay?

It's now operating as QF474, expected at its SYD allocated gate at 2041 hours, 106 minutes late.

This is the news thread, not wild conjecture.

In any case, the time difference between loading 15T to 30T of fuel is in the order of 15 minutes max.

Both Melbourne Airport & Qantas have said there were no significant impacts today and I think we can confirm that with the flight stats. Time to let this one go.