Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[789nerd]

Tuesday : The on-going absence of B789 VH-ZNG (last flight into LAX on Monday 14th), saw Sunday's QF94 LAX-MEL delayed by 12 hrs 22 minutes with new arrival time in Melbourne of B789 VH-ZNA at 20:39 AEDT this evening, 12 hours 39 minutes late.
This has flowed on to today's QF93 MEL-LAX flight which is shown as delayed 10 hrs 55 minutes for a revised departure time from Melbourne of 21:55 AEDT, with the same delay giving a revised Los Angeles arrival of 17:15 PDT (Tuesday).
At this point in time, there does not appear to be a further flow on to this delay.
It's been a couple of days of bad news for Qantas passengers from LAX.

 

[789nerd]

Wednesday : While yesterday's QF27 SYD-SCE (B789 VH-ZNH) pushed back in Sydney 16 minutes late and arrived in Santiago 29 minutes late, the return QF28 SCE-SYD was 84 minutes late pushing back at Santiago, and is not expected back into Sydney until 19:40 AEDT this evening, 80 minutes late.

Edit : This has caused a flow on delay with QF75 SYD-YVR currently showing a 40 minute delay for a revised Sydney departure of 21:05 AEDT this evening. This delay carries through to the Vancouver arrival at 16:05 PST Wednesday.

 

[789nerd]

Tuesday : The on-going absence of B789 VH-ZNG (last flight into LAX on Monday 14th), saw Sunday's QF94 LAX-MEL delayed by 12 hrs 22 minutes with new arrival time in Melbourne of B789 VH-ZNA at 20:39 AEDT this evening, 12 hours 39 minutes late.
This has flowed on to today's QF93 MEL-LAX flight which is shown as delayed 10 hrs 55 minutes for a revised departure time from Melbourne of 21:55 AEDT, with the same delay giving a revised Los Angeles arrival of 17:15 PDT (Tuesday).
At this point in time, there does not appear to be a further flow on to this delay.
It's been a couple of days of bad news for Qantas passengers from LAX.

Qantas were over optimistic with the estimated departure of the delayed QF93, it eventually pushed back in Sydney at 23:09 AEDT, just over 12 hours late.

Seems these delayed flights confused some of the flight trackers, with both FlightRadar24 & FlightAware not plotting the Monday QF94 LAX-MEL (B789 VH-ZNE), only Plane Tracker showed it correctly. Perhaps if Qantas had used QF95/QF96 for the delayed flights there would have been less confusion, with both ZNA & ZNE operating QF94 for some time, albeit on opposite side of the Pacific.

 

[789nerd]

Thursday : today's QF93 MEL-LAX is currently showing a 60 minute delay with a revised departure time from Melbourne of 12:00 AEDT, and arrival time in Los Angeles of 07:20 PST Thursday, same delay. Seemingly crew related as two B789s : VH-ZND and VH-ZNE are currently in Melbourne - ZNE since early Wednesday morning.

 

[encryptededdy]

Lovely, I'm taking tomorrows QF93 with a 2h50m connection at LAX. Let's see how we go

 

[789nerd]

Lovely, I'm taking tomorrows QF93 with a 2h50m connection at LAX. Let's see how we go

All sites are still showing a 12:00 AEDT departure, despite the time now past 13:00 AEDT.
The flight still shows on the Melbourne departure board (QF093) as departing at 11:00 AEDT !

Seems there was also a delay for another LAX bound flight, with QF11 SYD-LAX (B789 VH-ZNA) departing 60 minutes late at 11:20 AEDT, however Qantas flight status is showing that flight as arriving early into Los Angeles.

 

[jrfsp]

All sites are still showing a 12:00 AEDT departure, despite the time now past 13:00 AEDT.
The flight still shows on the Melbourne departure board (QF093) as departing at 11:00 AEDT !

Seems there was also a delay for another LAX bound flight, with QF11 SYD-LAX (B789 VH-ZNA) departing 60 minutes late at 11:20 AEDT, however Qantas flight status is showing that flight as arriving early into Los Angeles.

QF taking a leaf from JQ tactics for today's QF93, keep pushing the dept back until it finally gets cancelled, (QF showing now as cancelled)

 

[exLXCXFF]

The last trans-Tasman SYD - AKL, QF149, seems to be badly delayed almost every day, last night clocking up an almost 3 hours delay with an arrival into AKL at 0335am local time. Not fun.

 

[encryptededdy]

QF taking a leaf from JQ tactics for today's QF93, keep pushing the dept back until it finally gets cancelled, (QF showing now as cancelled)

Oof. That's a lot of passengers to reaccomodate, given all the 787s are quite full from A380 downgrades. I expect my flight tomorrow on QF93 to be packed.

 

[jrfsp]

Oof. That's a lot of passengers to reaccomodate, given all the 787s are quite full from A380 downgrades. I expect my flight tomorrow on QF93 to be packed.

Lots of unhappy customers

 

[featheast]

On flightradar24 it added another entry of QF93 scheduled to depart at 01:01 25/11, not sure if this is for the cancelled flight today or not.
I'm flying on tomorrow on QF93 so will try to get to MEL early coz I'm sure it will be a full flight.

 

[encryptededdy]

I'm flying on tomorrow on QF93

See you on board

Happy to guest into F Lounge if you're not WP.
edit: Probably don't have time now that Qantas reduced my connection time by 45min, but can try

 

[encryptededdy]

Speaking of getting to MEL early, Qantas just cancelled QF409 SYD-MEL (7am) and rebooked me on QF417 (7:45am), cutting my transit time down to 1h40m which is below what I'd like for a D to I connection.

 

[featheast]

See you on board

Happy to guest into F Lounge if you're not WP.
edit: Probably don't have time now that Qantas reduced my connection time by 45min, but can try

Thanks mate, and good luck with the connecting tomorrow!

 

[encryptededdy]

Speaking of getting to MEL early, Qantas just cancelled QF409 SYD-MEL (7am) and rebooked me on QF417 (7:45am), cutting my transit time down to 1h40m which is below what I'd like for a D to I connection.

Some space just opened up on an earlier flight, and Hobart call centre was able to open up award space on it and move me onto that flight

 

[789nerd]

QF taking a leaf from JQ tactics for today's QF93, keep pushing the dept back until it finally gets cancelled, (QF showing now as cancelled)

A probable flow on from this cancellation is that Wednesday's QF12 LAX-SYD has also been cancelled.

Or it may be related to the continued absence of B789 VH-ZNG, still sitting in the Qantas LAX maintenance facility

 

[milehighclub]

From what I can see, ZNG is out for at least another 3 days

 

[789nerd]

A probable flow on from this cancellation is that Wednesday's QF12 LAX-SYD has also been cancelled.

Friday : More troubles for passengers from LAX with Thursday's QF18 LAX-SYD also cancelled

Overnight, QF8 from Dallas (B789 VH-ZNJ) operated an hour late.

 

[jrfsp]

Friday : More troubles for passengers from LAX with Thursday's QF18 LAX-SYD also cancelled

Overnight, QF8 from Dallas (B789 VH-ZNJ) operated an hour late.

What are the issues with the 787?
Two out of action ?

 

[789nerd]

What are the issues with the 787?
Two out of action ?

There is nothing on other sites indicating why ZNG and now ZNE are grounded.

On a happier note, re earlier comments above, featheast & encryptededdy will be glad that today's QF93 was only 19 minutes late pushing back in Melbourne at 11:09 AEDT this morning.