Qantas Delays/Cancellations

Today’s QF7 is now not flying today. Engineering issues. The delay was extended to 9pm but now they’ve admitted defeat.
In the F lounge they’re giving cab charges or hotel rooms to affected pax and are hopeful of a morning departure tomorrow.
My spa treatment is in 20 mins so I’m conflicted. The air con, free food and booze is quite nice here and I’m not in a rush to head home.
 
Today’s QF7 is now not flying today. Engineering issues. The delay was extended to 9pm but now they’ve admitted defeat.
In the F lounge they’re giving cab charges or hotel rooms to affected pax and are hopeful of a morning departure tomorrow.
My spa treatment is in 20 mins so I’m conflicted. The air con, free food and booze is quite nice here and I’m not in a rush to head home.
Update: they corralled the pax in the F lounge and a QF agent took us down through the transit area to immigration where we were all 'reverse immigrated' - no need to complete an inbound passenger card. We were told a few times our luggage would be on carousel 8 so of course it was on carousel 10. And carousel 11. Into a cab and home (Surry Hills) at about 4:30.
Long day going nowhere.
The app indicates that the flight will leave at 7am tomorrow (Sat) morning. Not sure if this is confirmed or not as we were told that QF were waiting for Sydney Airport to assign a departure slot... My booking on the website shows QF7 as departed at the original departure time.
 
Today’s QF7 is now not flying today. Engineering issues. The delay was extended to 9pm but now they’ve admitted defeat.
In the F lounge they’re giving cab charges or hotel rooms to affected pax and are hopeful of a morning departure tomorrow.
My spa treatment is in 20 mins so I’m conflicted. The air con, free food and booze is quite nice here and I’m not in a rush to head home.
Does that mean you will have two spa treatments in two days for the same flight?
 
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The app indicates that the flight will leave at 7am tomorrow (Sat) morning. Not sure if this is confirmed or not as we were told that QF were waiting for Sydney Airport to assign a departure slot... My booking on the website shows QF7 as departed at the original departure time.
ExpertFlyer and Google both say 7am.
As does the SYD airport website.
 
...The app indicates that the flight will leave at 7am tomorrow (Sat) morning. Not sure if this is confirmed or not as we were told that QF were waiting for Sydney Airport to assign a departure slot...

Looks like the overnight delayed QF7 departed at 0703 hours on Saturday 30 for a suggested 0510 (!) hours arrival in DFW.

flychrisfly, which hotels were pax 'billetted' (to use an old fashioned word) in? Was there a difference between the hotels that those in F and J received compared to W and Y passengers?

Friday 29's delayed QF8 looks to be departing DFW at a suggested 0725 hours on Saturday 30 December for New Year's Eve arrival in SYD at 1710 hours instead of the usual 0605 hours.
 
flychrisfly, which hotels were pax 'billetted' (to use an old fashioned word) in? Was there a difference between the hotels that those in F and J received compared to W and Y passengers?
No idea but I did overhear a couple of F pax chatting, and while I may have missed the context, it sounded like they were put up at the Park Hyatt(!!!) If this was the case then I’m sure not everyone was put up there.

Also, cabin crew were hotelled as they were the same crew scheduled for the original flight. Their slip in DFW is now 30-something hours rather than the usual 50-something. No info on tech crew.

A call was just made in the AA lounge that the delayed QF8 will board in 5 mins (at 7:17am DFW time.)
 
On New Year's Eve 2017, QF81 from SYD to SIN was expected to depart at 1245, 70 minutes late but a couple of minutes after that had yet to do so.
 
The first (and only!) QF B789 Australian arrival for New Year's Day 2018, QF96 from LAX is expected to arrive in MEL at about 1100, 50 minutes tardy.
 
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New Year's Day 2018 sees QF63, the B744 from SYD across to JNB expected to depart at 1400 this afternoon. Inevitably, the returning QF64 overnight back to SYD will be delayed.
 
Anyone know why QF76 is in HNL?

Qantas flight status says its due into SYD at 1330 Today but it looks to me like it’s still at HNL.
 
Anyone know why QF76 is in HNL?

Qantas flight status says its due into SYD at 1330 Today but it looks to me like it’s still at HNL.
I think the systems are confused.
Google thinks its in SYD.
Looking at FR24, it appears that they diverted towards HNL at 0700 UTC (~3 hours after departing YVR)

Expertflyer shows that it landed at HNL at 0003 and left the gate at 0544 before returning to the ramp at 1120.
 
Himeno, salient point. It quite often seems that flight status sites like FR24 cannot cope when flights are diverted. QF is one of many airlines whose flights can be so lengthy in a sector that in a worst case, there can be two 'versions' operating concurrently. Sometimes QF might attach a 'D' for 'delayed' suffix but that can take a while to be recorded by these third [party sites.

From what I can see the B744 is VH-OJU that AFF members may recall on 27 December had to return to LAX (after departing for BNE as QF16, and flying for 90 minutes or so towards the latter) and so had to dump fuel.

One cannot offer any advance on Himeno's times: the B744 looks to be still in HNL.

The 1055 hours QF129 SYD - PVG departed an hour late but arrival is forecast to be just 35 late at 1905. This will slightly delay QF130.

As with almost all Japan-bound flights from JL, NH and QF, QF61 (scheduled 0955 hours BNE up to NRT) is rarely late. This was untrue today with departure at 1100 meaning a revised 45 minute late arrival at 1845.

QF93 (1115 hours 1 January 2018 MEL - LAX) pushed back 70 late. The same margin is estimated to apply at its destination, meaning an 0745 hours arrival. The connecting B744 on QF11 is predicted to depart 50 minutes behind time at 0910 hours for its transcontinental trip to JFK.

The 1225 hours MEL - SIN, QF35, commenced pushback at 1307, meaning arrival is set for 36 late at 1801.

The delayed 1 January 2018 QF63 (B744 VH-OEE) departed SYD at 1439 hours this afternoon, 184 late. JNB arrival should be at 1855 tonight local time, 140 minutes tardy. The QF website has still not been changed to reflect the delay to the 1850 hours JNB overnight to SYD, QF64. It would be surprising if it left much before 2040 hours, meaning it is likely to be at least an hour late into SYD tomorrow afternoon.

The 1655 hours SYD - DXB is estimated to depart 35 late with Tuesday 2 arrival at 0110, half an hour tardy.
 
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Expertflyer shows that it landed at HNL at 0003 and left the gate at 0544 before returning to the ramp at 1120.

Does that mean they attempted to continue onwards to SYD at 0544? Wouldn’t crew have been out of hours by then? If not they would have been well out of hours long before 1120?
 
Flyerqf, the flight time from YVR to HNL looks to be six and a half hours, plus sign on duties. So yes, by 1120 by my quick back-of-the-envelope calculations, they'd be around the 18 - 19 hour mark. jb747, please correct me, but isn't the normal maximum hours of duty for QF flight crew 18 (although by agreement it can be extended to 20?)
 
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As at 2130 hours on Monday 1 January, B744 VH-OJU on the diverted to HNL QF76 (normally YVR - SYD) appears to be still in HNL.

Advice from others as to its situation would be great. It's just after 0030 on New Year's Day in Honolulu as I type. QF76 only operates for brief periods but this HNL diversion may be a first (at least in the last couple of years). QF3 departed SYD at 1942 on 1 January, seven minutes late so its arrival may provide some spare southbound seats if whatever the problem is with VH-OJU is not fixed.
 
As at 0600 AEDT on Tuesday 2 January, B744 VH-OJU from the diverted QF76 remains in HNL. 33 hours and counting. Thank you milehighclub.

One site suggests the problem is a 'failed weather radar', the first time I can recall this being specified as a delay reason (which is not to suggest it hasn't occurred with this or other airlines in that period - merely that often the detail does not get down to that level.)
 
As at 0600 AEDT on Tuesday 2 January, B744 VH-OJU from the diverted QF76 remains in HNL. 33 hours and counting. Thank you milehighclub.

One site suggests the problem is a 'failed weather radar', the first time I can recall this being specified as a delay reason (which is not to suggest it hasn't occurred with this or other airlines in that period - merely that often the detail does not get down to that level.)

Wasn't that also the reason for a heavily delayed QF8 recently?
 
One site suggests the problem is a 'failed weather radar', the first time I can recall this being specified as a delay reason (which is not to suggest it hasn't occurred with this or other airlines in that period - merely that often the detail does not get down to that level.)
A few years ago, I was on QF52 SIN-BNE when it was still a 747. The weather radar broke while inbound on QF51 and they followed another aircraft the rest of the way to SIN. The return was then delayed by a few hours while the radar was replaced.
The only reason I see a 'failed weather radar' delaying a flight more then 4-5 hours is if there are no replacement parts on hand and they have to fly a replacement in.

This is the QF transpac flights at the time the diversion happened (76 to the north, 74 nearby, 94 and 12 near the US mainland and 8 and 8D in the south)
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If it was a radar problem, unless there was storm activity between 76 and 74, why couldn't they meet up with 74 and follow them into SYD (where similar has been done before)?
 

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