Qantas Delays/Cancellations

Friday : Today's QF10 PER-MEL & QF9 MEL-PER are being operated by A332s, QF9 (VH-EBR) with an eighty five minute delay, and QF10 (VH-EBV) with a 109 minute delay.
This will allow B789 VH-ZNI which arrived in Perth earlier this afternoon with the LHR-PER sector of QF10, to turn around and operate today's QF9 PER-LHR sector on time.

With Sunday's QF9 MEL-PER & QF10 PER-MEL sectors withdrawn to allow use of a B789 for an Antarctic Charter, this will see ZNI turning around in Perth through to December 1st.
 
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Friday : Yet another B789 related delay. Today's QF17 SYD-LAX has been delayed until 13:00 AEDT Saturday - just over 15 hours. New arrival time in Los Angeles 07:45 PST Saturday.
 
Friday : After being 38 minutes late with today's QF63 SYD-JNB, B789 VH-ZNH has pushed back in Jo'burg with the return QF64 JNB-SYD at 17:41 SAST, 66 minutes late. It is expected to arrive in Sydney on Saturday afternoon at 14:15 AEDT, 50 minutes late.
 
Now waiting in the AA Flagship lounge waiting for my AA flight to Vancouver. Assuming that's on-time, I'll arrive in Vancouver on time for my appointment later today. Feel like I dodged a bullet given the number of rebookings this ticket has gone through (A380 removal, then QF11 cancellation), and the general instability of Qantas' transpacific network right now.
 
Because ZNE didn't depart yesterday, not only was the QF17 delayed, but QF94, which will now depart at 0915 Saturday.

ZNE is now no longer positioning to SYD, it is staying in MEL to do the QF9, but has been delayed till 2120.

ZNA is being ferried to SYD.
 
Looks like tomorrows QF93 is showing a 10 hour delay leaving MEL

This is the problem when there is no slack in the fleet, as soon as one goes tech the whole schedule goes to pot
 
Saturday : apart from Qantas's B789 woes, today's QF11 SYD-LAX (A388 VH-OQD) was 97 minutes late departing Sydney at 12:57 AEDT. The revised arrival time in Los Angeles is estimated to be 07:20 PST, 85 minutes late.
 
milehighclub said:
ZNA is being ferried to SYD.
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... and pushed back with QF17 SYD-LAX 15 hrs 42 minutes late at 14:07 AEDT. The revised arrival time in Los Angeles is still 07:45 PST, 15 hrs 5 minutes late.

Meanwhile the cash register will be ringing for Qantas with B789 VH-ZNJ about to return to Sydney having operated an Antarctic Charter for Antarctic Flights. There are two further Antarctica charters tomorrow, another Antarctic Flights one from Perth, and a Chimu Special to the South Pole from Melbourne.
Will be interesting to see what impact these have on normal B789 revenue services tomorrow. A known impact is that QF10 will turn around in Perth for the following QF9, the Melbourne feeder flights having been removed from the schedule some time ago.
 
789nerd said:
Meanwhile the cash register will be ringing for Qantas with B789 VH-ZNJ about to return to Sydney having operated an Antarctic Charter for Antarctic Flights. There are two further Antarctica charters tomorrow, another Antarctic Flights one from Perth, and a Chimu Special to the South Pole from Melbourne.
Will be interesting to see what impact these have on normal B789 revenue services tomorrow. A known impact is that QF10 will turn around in Perth for the following QF9, the Melbourne feeder flights having been removed from the schedule some time ago.
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The immediate effect of the Chimu Special going ahead (QF1336 B789 VH-ZNB), was the cancellation of todays QF27/QF28 SYD-SCL-SYD rotation.
 
Sunday : QF64 JNB-SYD (B789 VH-ZNK) pushed back at 17:41 SAST, 66 minutes late, and is estimated to arrive in Sydney at 14:45 AEDT Monday, 80 minutes late.
 
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Does anyone actually know what happened to VH-ZNG at LAX? Being out for a bit over a month seems to either be a result of a major incident or be a result of a very specific supply chain issue.
 
789nerd said:
The immediate effect of the Chimu Special going ahead (QF1336 B789 VH-ZNB), was the cancellation of todays QF27/QF28 SYD-SCL-SYD rotation.
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Monday : Seems Qantas Flight Status should have said delayed 24 hours, as QF27 SYD-SCL (B789 VH-ZNC) pushed back in Sydney this afternoon at 13:02 AEDT, 24 hours and 27 minutes late.

The Qantas time table does not show a QF27 operating today, while the Flight Status for QF27 yesterday now shows 'no flight' instead of the earlier 'cancellation'. Classic case of rigging the 'on time' figures ?
 
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antycbr said:
These charters getting in the way of schedule reliability will start becoming very expensive for QF.
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While I’ve no doubt these charters are lucrative for QF, they are coming at the expense of scheduled cancellations.

I saw a friend's social media post who was meant to be flying DRW-MEL-LAX (regular flyer of the route), vowed never to fly QF long haul again after the latest episode.
 
Today's weather in Brisbane has created some delays and diversions as QF134 CHC-BNE (B738 VH-XZK) which diverted to MCY and is on route to BNE. Arrival is suggested at 19 55, 195 min tardy
 

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