Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

[lovestotravel]

On the other hand, QF seems to consider it a AY flight as a response to my complaint:
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That's a lovely template response,

Yet again why people fly QF is beyond me

 

[CaptJCool]

That's pathetic. You didn't enter into a contract with Finnair, the same way you a passenger doesn't contract with Menzies to handle their bag.

The Q cop-out

 

[RooFlyer]

Yet again why people fly QF is beyond me

But they don't fly Qantas - they fly Finnair

 

[lovestotravel]

But they don't fly Qantas - they fly Finnair

Ah yes my mistake

 

[RSVKanga]

possibly repainted in QF colours

This would be interesting at the least, as it would go against the 2017-present QF focus which is to have a consistent hard product onboard all aircraft of a particular type.

 

[elanshin]

This would be interesting at the least, as it would go against the 2017-present QF focus which is to have a consistent hard product onboard all aircraft of a particular type.

2017 qantas did not have a lack of aircraft problem. 2022 onwards they realised they have a massive lack of aircraft problem.

Very simple.

 

[RooFlyer]

The Finnair biz seats are now officially Qantas' own! (ET article)

Qantas’ controversial new business class spreads its wings

 

[RichardMEL]

The Finnair biz seats are now officially Qantas' own! (ET article)

Qantas’ controversial new business class spreads its wings

yeah, saw the headline and thought gee, that's not very good tbh. Yes, they're QF flights, but the seat isn't QF's. Semantics perhaps, but I'm not really sure why they went with that wording. Slightly misleading imo.

 

[docjames]

I took an overnight flight and slept the whole time

In general though I think it's fine. Only issue is that Qantas doesn't supply 2x large pillows like Finnair intends (only 1 large and 1 small), so you may find it harder to support your back in unconventional sitting positions.

This is the stuff that drives one nuts with QF - like , how hard (read: more expensive) is it really to provide x2 large instead of one large and one small.

 

[BNEFlyer]

yeah, saw the headline and thought gee, that's not very good tbh. Yes, they're QF flights, but the seat isn't QF's. Semantics perhaps, but I'm not really sure why they went with that wording. Slightly misleading imo.

That's an article for people who wouldn't understand what a wet lease is, yet it's on a website that's aimed at people who would (or should) know exactly what a wet least entails.

 

[NSun]

It appears one of the FinnAir A330s (OH-LTR) on a wet lease has been in Singapore since Thursday April 25 leading to every QF291 and QF292 cancelled since the northbound leg on that day. Must be some technical issue.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

It appears one of the FinnAir A330s (OH-LTR) on a wet lease has been in Singapore since Thursday April 25 leading to every QF291 and QF292 cancelled since the northbound leg on that day. Must be some technical issue.

Huh. It seems the LTR is not so ‘LT’ lol.

I wonder if the terms of the wet lease include contingency plans to sub a sub in a working model?

 

[Greg555]

Huh. It seems the LTR is not so ‘LT’ lol.

I wonder if the terms of the wet lease include contingency plans to sub a sub in a working model?

If only the <redacted> had actually managed the fleet properly.....

 

[Himeno]

It appears one of the FinnAir A330s (OH-LTR) on a wet lease has been in Singapore since Thursday April 25 leading to every QF291 and QF292 cancelled since the northbound leg on that day. Must be some technical issue.

hmm... I'm booked on 292 in a week.

 

[kpro]

They are intermittently replacing these services with QF metal A332's as QF81/QF82.

 

[AIRwin]

OH-LTT is now operating QF292 to SYD after arriving in SIN from HEL

 

[NSun]

OH-LTT is now operating QF292 to SYD after arriving in SIN from HEL

Its difficult to imagine they wouldn't get a replacement aircraft if LTR had an issue that was only going to take a couple more days to resolve.

 

[tdimdad]

I wonder if the terms of the wet lease include contingency plans to sub a sub in a working model?

You'd think so. I have no idea how wet lease agreements work but one would think that is QF were any smart, they would lease daily/weekly capacity (of a certain standard) on the route instead of individual airframes & staffing for those, and push the operational risk to the provider.

 

[elanshin]

They are intermittently replacing these services with QF metal A332's as QF81/QF82.

Isnt 81/82 standard for QF? The AY planes don't fly everyday (I'm pretty sure jve seen scheduled day off somewhere before) and 81/82 also flew on days AY planes were flying (iirc when my QF1 flight was 12h+ delayed both 292 and 82 were flying that day as i was looking at changing flights).

 

[wenglock.mok]

Isnt 81/82 standard for QF? The AY planes don't fly everyday (I'm pretty sure jve seen scheduled day off somewhere before) and 81/82 also flew on days AY planes were flying (iirc when my QF1 flight was 12h+ delayed both 292 and 82 were flying that day as i was looking at changing flights).

The 81/82 is only scheduled for one day a week (82 on Thursdays and 81 on Fridays), when the AY A330 is in SIN for its weekly maintenance cycle.

It looks like LTR had its 24 hours in Singapore last Thursday (25 April) and was scheduled to operate the southbound 292 on Friday (26 April). Something must have happened subsequently as the schedule was disrupted from that day onwards with EBR coming in to sub on a couple of unscheduled 81/82 rotations over the weekend.