Qantas A380 reliability issues creeping up again?

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amid the outrageous delay.

I'm sure the delay although a tad annoying was just about right length.

Make sure the part is replaced and tested and signed off before take off on a journey half way round the world away from home base with 400+ lives at stake.
 
I'm sure the delay although a tad annoying was just about right length.

Make sure the part is replaced and tested and signed off before take off on a journey half way round the world away from home base with 400+ lives at stake.
Absolutely. I’m 100% with you on safety.

Poorly worded on my part.

As you’ve said it’s their home port, so keeping people on the aircraft for almost five hours while the work was completed it the outrageous part.
 
I'm sure the delay although a tad annoying was just about right length.

Make sure the part is replaced and tested and signed off before take off on a journey half way round the world away from home base with 400+ lives at stake.

Given that the issue had already been looked at after the arrival of the in-bound, a higher level of annoyance is probably warranted.
 
Given that the issue had already been looked at after the arrival of the in-bound, a higher level of annoyance is probably warranted.
And hopefully a review of the initial checklist used since it didn't pick up the prevailing problem. Lessons learnt and continuous improvement as you go...
 
And hopefully a review of the initial checklist used since it didn't pick up the prevailing problem. Lessons learnt and continuous improvement as you go...

"Improvement" and "QFi" are antonyms.

It never ceases to amaze how QFi can have so many operational problems, yet the majority of foreign airlines flying to and from Oz generally do so quite reliably and often punctually.
 
"Improvement" and "QFi" are antonyms.

It never ceases to amaze how QFi can have so many operational problems, yet the majority of foreign airlines flying to and from Oz generally do so quite reliably and often punctually.
Trust me, they do. It's a numbers game, other airlines will have less issues here, because they are only using 1 or two aircraft a day and those aircraft are out of their home hubs anyway,
 
It never ceases to amaze how QFi can have so many operational problems, yet the majority of foreign airlines flying to and from Oz generally do so quite reliably and often punctually.
Yeah but have a look at BA, they've cancelled hundreds of flights this month for operational reasons, so I don't think this is something unique to QF.
 
Did they end up keeping the SIN F lounge open through the delay?
 
Currently 2 QF A380s on the ground in MEL. Didn't think that was normal, thought the only A380 was for QF93/94?
 
OQD 15A seat has an inoperative sticker on it.


Edit: Yes not responding to inputs. Apparently an engineer had come onboard at SIN and fixed it... But clearly not.
 
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