Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Later on Sunday 27 January, QF36 departed SIN at 2018, 38 late, becoming airborne at 2046 hours. QF suggests MEL arrival at 0635, 35 late on Monday 28 January.

 

[Silvia]

Monday 28th of Jan has seen the following

• The usual suspect QF42 CGK-SYD (A332 VH-EBA) arrived at 7 48, 93 behind. This then turned as QF922 SYD-CNS which arrived at 12 13, 73 min tardy.
• QF735 SYD-ADL (B738 VH-VZI) arrived at 10 22, 137 min late. This delayed QF676 ADL-MEL 8 55 hours service, which arrived at 12 45, 120 min tardy.
• QF20 MNL-SYD (A332 VH-EBM) arrived at 7 36, 76 tardy.
• The also regularly late QF829 DRW-SYD (B738 VH-VYE) arrived at 7 26, 66 min late.
• QF44 DPS-SYD (A332 VH-EBL) arrived to gate at 8 28, 118 min behind the original schedule.
• QF2001 TMW-SYD (Q400 VH-LQK) arrived at 8 39, 69 min tardy.
• Even worse, QF2220 WGA-SYD (Q400 VH-QOY) arrived until 11 41, 246 min behind schedule.
• Also quite late today, ABX-SYD (Q400 VH-QOU) was airborne at 12 11, arriving at 13 15, 325 min late.
• QF2165 PQQ-SYD (Q400 VH-QOT) arrived to gate at 13 20, 115 min behind.
• QF118 HKG-SYD (A332 VH-EBO) was delayed overnight, departing at 8 21, this means that arrival is now revised to 20 08, 483 min late.
• QF575 PER-SYD (A332 VH-EBQ) departed at 10 13, arrived at 11 30, 70 min late. This had a knock on effect on QF580 PER-SYD, which now has a tentative arrival at 19 40, 60 min tardy.
• QF41 SYD-CGK is once again late (A332 VH-EBF) airborne at 16 28, with suggested arrival at 19 33, 123 min late.
• QF38 SIN-MEL (A333 VH-QPF) was airborne at 1 38, arrived at 11 49, 94 min late.
• QF475 MEL-PER (B738 VH-XZA) departed at 14 56, expected to arrive at 15 30, 140 min behind schedule.

 

[Melburnian1]

Monday 28th of Jan...

• Even worse, QF2220 WGA-SYD (Q400 VH-QOY) arrived until 11 41, 246 min behind schedule.
• Also quite late today, ABX-SYD (Q400 VH-QOU) was airborne at 12 11, arriving at 13 15, 325 min late...

The first one is due to Sunday 27 January's QF2231, the scheduled 1825 hours early evening SYD down to WGA not taking off until 2217, arriving in the Riverina at 2222 hours instead of 1935.

Some flights are missing on various monitoring websites for the Albury plane, but it may be similar.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 27 January, QF74, the 2035 hours SFO - SYD departed at 2347, 192 minutes behind schedule so Tuesday 29 arrival should be at 0905 hours, 185 late.

Another B744, QF4, departed HNL at 1145 yesterday instead of 1000 hours so Monday 28 arrival was at 1833 hours, 83 late. This aircraft looks to be next on QF25, the 2135 hours SYD - HND so that ought be punctual.

 

[Melburnian1]

In yet another B744 delay, QF74 from SFO to SYD (VH-OEB) should arrive on Tuesday 29 January at 0838 hours, 148 minutes late. Despite being the 2035 hours on Sunday 27 ex SFO, it did not depart until 2347 or become airborne until 0015. An inbound delay was not to blame, as it had arrived SFO at 1256 that day, 31 late, giving plenty of hours in which to 'reverse.'

QF127/QF128 are changing for two consecutive days today to become a B744 (not the more recent A388) but thankfully another one is forming this scheduled 0930 hours ex SYD for HKG.

 

[Melburnian1]

In further on Tuesday 29 January 2019, QF81, the 1130 hours SYD - SIN is expected to push back 50 minutes late with arrival at 1730, 45 minutes tardy.

Tuesday's QF11, the B789 from LAX across to JFK has been cancelled. This is quite unusual and may be due to last night's QF55 (1725 hours BNE - LAX) also getting the boot (as did Saturday's). Monday evebing's QF56 (2105 hours LAX back to BNE) is, however, operating. Presumably passengers from QF11 ex SYD, QF93 ex MEL and QF15 ex BNE will be placed on AA flights across the USA: this may add hours to a journey, and greater risk of luggage going astray.

QF12 (1800 hours JFK back to LAX) on Tuesday 29 has also received the boot.

 

[milehighclub]

QF49 will be operated by a 747 tomorrow as will the return QF50. ZNG is still out of service.

 

[Silvia]

Well the weather in Melbourne is certainly not helping. Plenty of aircraft circling around attempting to land whilst there are thunderstorms. Some international flights diverted to Sydney. This will undoubtedly impact tomorrow’s schedule.

QF10 currently diverting to Avalon

 

[docjames]

Wow not a good result for those coming through from LHR.

Looks like the 10 made the hop from AVV-MEL at 2322 for a 12min flight arr MEL 2334 after arriving at AVV at 2149.

Wonder if the pax were allowed to alight at AVV? There would have been Borderforce agents on site presumably (with AAX arr/departure at ~2230) so would be interesting to know - but getting luggage etc off of any deplaning pax would be problematic - maybe HLO pax were allowed? Would be fascinating to know.

Did any other aircraft divert to AVV?

 

[jb747]

Wow not a good result for those coming through from LHR.

Looks like the 10 made the hop from AVV-MEL at 2322 for a 12min flight arr MEL 2334 after arriving at AVV at 2149.

Wonder if the pax were allowed to alight at AVV? There would have been Borderforce agents on site presumably (with AAX arr/departure at ~2230) so would be interesting to know - but getting luggage etc off of any deplaning pax would be problematic - maybe HLO pax were allowed? Would be fascinating to know.

Nobody would be allowed off unless they decided to terminate the flight at Avalon.

 

[Silvia]

No other aircraft diverted to AVV
QF172 CBR-MEL, 19 20 hours service diverted to Sydney.
QF635 BNE-MEL, 18 10 hours diverted to Canberra.

Also QF49 MEL-SFO (789 VH-ZNA) was airborne at 1 39 due to diversion of QF10, scheduled to arrive at 20 25, 150 min tardy.

 

[docjames]

Nobody would be allowed off unless they decided to terminate the flight at Avalon.

Could you please explain the rationale behind this?

If pax are HLO then "security" of baggage in hold isn't a factor, but i'm guessing weight and balance (and re-calculation) would be one reason? Are there other considerations that factor into this? Borderforce have service at AVV but i have no idea if they'd be prepared to process a number of extra pax (presumably they are staffed for the AAX flight only and may not have capacity to cope with "extras")?

What would the process be if AVV didn't have Borderforce (eg. they'd diverted to an airport without it) and the flight had to terminate?

 

[levelnine]

I was on the QF10 diverted to Avalon.

We weren't allowed off the flight. There are presumably many sound reasons, but the one we were told was that Qantas didn't have the ground handling facilities to process the flight there.

Bags took forever to come to the carousel and the Tullaramine Freeway was at a standstill due to night roadworks. Made for a very, very long day.

 

[Quickstatus]

Very gusty at SYD. One runway op.

Tonight’s QF149 postponed to tomorrow morning due to engineering issues.

SYD has curfew so any flights like my MH140 May get curfew anxiety if delays push up against the curfew cutoff

Edit 16L and R parallel ops.

Winds 170 @35-45 kts crosswind max 12 kts

 

[Silvia]

QF2047 DBO-SYD (Q200 VH-TQX) diverted back to DBO
QF923 CNS-SYD (A332 VH-EBM) arrived at 19 32, 87 min tardy
QF1520 CBR-SYD (B717 VH-YQV) had a very lengthy flight, arrived at 20 53, 103 min late.
QF2007 TMW-SYD (Q300 VH-SBW) diverted to NTL
QF458 MEL-SYD (B738 VH-XZI) arrived to gate at 20 50, 85 min behind schedule.
QF766 ADL-SYD (738 VH-VXG) diverted to CBR

quite a difficult evening in Sydney.

 

[jenib]

Yes - Qf1520 was diverted back to Canberra before returning to Sydney - I know because I heard it go past my house and looked at flight radar

QF2047 DBO-SYD (Q200 VH-TQX) diverted back to DBO
QF923 CNS-SYD (A332 VH-EBM) arrived at 19 32, 87 min tardy
QF1520 CBR-SYD (B717 VH-YQV) had a very lengthy flight, arrived at 20 53, 103 min late.
QF2007 TMW-SYD (Q300 VH-SBW) diverted to NTL
QF458 MEL-SYD (B738 VH-XZI) arrived to gate at 20 50, 85 min behind schedule.
QF766 ADL-SYD (738 VH-VXG) diverted to CBR

quite a difficult evening in Sydney.

1520

 

[Quickstatus]

I’ll be sitting in QF Flounge for a while
as my inbound is MH141 which was diverted to MEL.

I suspect that I will have to return to the airport in the morning because it’s due to arrive into SYD at 2300hrs.

 

[Thhhza]

Very good, especially given the agent may have worked outside normal business hours in Australia.

Had you stayed with the QF rebooking, was the airline offering you San Francisco accommodation, transfers and all meals, and at which hotel?

It never got that far, I saw my rebooked flight and 5 minutes later I was chatting with my company's travel agent and she rebooked me straight away on SFO -> SYD -> MEL.

 

[cwd]

Just heard a very loud 747-400ER VH-OEH go roaring overhead just south of the CBD in Melbourne, operating as QF49 to SFO, rather than the usual 789. Presumably due to the 787 VH-ZNG havng been on the ground in MEL for almost a week and still out of action.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Saturday 2 February 2019, the oft-tardy QF35 was at it again, departing MEL at 1346 hours 86 late) and arriving SIN at 1811, 66 minutes behind the schedule. A388 VH-OQF was the aircraft, having arrived as QF94 from LAX at 1021, 31 late: in theory sufficient time for a punctual QF35 pushing back.

QF79 this morning ex MEL was worse, departing at 1138 hours, 138 late and arriving NRT at an expected 1955 hours, 135 minutes past the mandated. As a result, QF62, the redeye 1930 hours MRT - BNE is estimated to depart at 2125 arriving on Sunday 3 at 0730 hours, 110 late.