Qantas A380 reliability issues creeping up again?

[elanshin]

Not sure why but QF11 on Nov 3 (and corresponding QF12 on Nov 3) is now showing as a 789 with all classes 0'd out.

Does QF now need a day off flying SYD - LAX with the current frames?

 

[RSD]

Not sure why but QF11 on Nov 3 (and corresponding QF12 on Nov 3) is now showing as a 789 with all classes 0'd out.

Does QF now need a day off flying SYD - LAX with the current frames?

The Qantas timetable lately has become just a rough guide to what might fly on any given day. QF11 was set to take off four hours late but is now cancelled.

The daily QF29 MEL-HKG is going missing for a few days in November too - I don't know why but the Monday and Wednesday services for two consecutive weeks aren't happening - just to add to the pain of Qantas pulling out of flying into mainland China.

 

[RichardMEL]

QF1 on 14NOV is also cut. sounds like a projected issue with a 380 shell availability issue. Perhaps delay in maintenance works or something in AUH? Yeah, it's not good.

OQB operated the QF11/2OCT that did finally take off around 2050. oyyyyyy

 

[VHOEJ]

Has nothing to do with maintaining at AUH.

OQJ has been AOG for a few days waiting parts and repairs. Starting JNB has made the situation worse. One A380 out and the disruptions will last for days.

 

[RooFlyer]

Starting JNB has made the situation worse.

This is the bit that I can't understand. They originally announced this service for earlier this year but that was cancelled and I flew on a B787.

They've had many problems with A380 availability and at best one new frame available, so how could they initiate JNB without making the situation worse?

 

[moa999]

Not sure why but QF11 on Nov 3 (and corresponding QF12 on Nov 3) is now showing as a 789 with all classes 0'd out.

One offs this far out more likely to be charter I'd think.

Antarctic flights starts 17 Nov (Mel) and 24 Nov (Syd), plus some over quieter periods at NYE and Aus Day.

 

[RSD]

This is the bit that I can't understand. They originally announced this service for earlier this year but that was cancelled and I flew on a B787.

They've had many problems with A380 availability and at best one new frame available, so how could they initiate JNB without making the situation worse?

I read somewhere that making JNB an A380 service instead of B787 would add 130,000 seats per year - is there really that much demand for JNB and beyond?

Totally agree that adding JNB would make the situation worse - blind freddy could see that coming!

 

[kpc]

I read somewhere that making JNB an A380 service instead of B787 would add 130,000 seats per year - is there really that much demand for JNB and beyond?

I think there is huge demand, otherwise Qf wouldn't be putting the A380 on this route....Qf has a monopoly on this route. When we flew to / fom Jnb in August on the 787, it was completely full in every cabin!

The recent Qf codeshare agreement with Air Link suggest a lot of traffic to Jnb and beyond.

 

[marcojim]

I think there is huge demand, otherwise Qf wouldn't be putting the A380 on this route....Qf has a monopoly on this route. When we flew to / fom Jnb in August on the 787, it was completely full in every cabin!

The recent Qf codeshare agreement with Air Link suggest a lot of traffic to Jnb and beyond.

Hope it's ok with @evanb to plug this but I really enjoyed this recent article on QF's capacity into JNB:

Is the Qantas A380 really massively increasing capacity to Johannesburg?

Qantas’s inaugural A380 flight to Johannesburg took off this week after more than a year of waiting.

www.analyticflying.com

There are quite a few other articles on JNB on the site. Quite significant that QF now has 69% market share in the Australia - South Africa market whereas they only had 55% between 2016 and 2019.