Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

QF103 continues with its abysmal timekeeping as last night's (2 January 2023) did not take off from SYD until 2209 hours, arriving HNL at 1028, 63 minutes behind schedule. A333 VH-QPH is the aircraft.

 

[tomlee1986]

Awaiting the inbound delayed QF42.

QF81 is delayed to 1400, awaiting delayed inbound QF20.

looks like this chain of delays will continue for a while yet!

 

[Melburnian1]

Awaiting the inbound delayed QF42.

If as I noted above QF42 from CGK isn't arriving SYD until 1236 hours early this afternoon, it's impossible for QF23 for BKK using the same aircraft to depart at 1300 hours, just 24 minutes later.

 

[tomlee1986]

If as I noted above QF42 from CGK isn't arriving SYD until 1236 hours early this afternoon, it's impossible for QF23 for BKK using the same aircraft to depart at 1300 hours, just 24 minutes later.

That is literally impossible to achieve lol

 

[Melburnian1]

looks like this chain of delays will continue for a while yet!

Amazing, isn't it, how most international airlines can have the vast majority of their flights into and out of Oz operating punctually or very close to that (and not being cancelled), despite their bases being at a minimum a few thousand kilometres away, yet QFi with its major base in SYD and for B789s maintenance facilities in MEL cannot achieve this.

An airline that under the current management has gone gradually downhill, yet continues to charge premium fares for lacklustre service.

 

[tomlee1986]

Amazing, isn't it, how most international airlines can have the vast majority of their flights into and out of Oz operating punctuallyu (and not being cancelled), despite their bases being at a minimum a few thousand kilometres away, yet QFi cannot achieve this.

An airline that under the current management has gone gradually downhill, yet it continues to charge premium fares for lacklustre service.

Sadly this once proud airline is going downhill and nothing is being done to stop it…

 

[Melburnian1]

That is literally impossible to achieve lol

QF23 is now displaying as departing at 1345 hours from SYD to BKK today, a bit more realistic, although with a 1236 hours arrival from CGK forming it, my guess is more like 1405-1410 for its pushing back. But perhaps 'the 42' might arrive at its gate a bit earlier, which at the margin will assist in gaining a few minutes.

QF87 (0935 hours SYD-ICN) has had a minor additional delay added, so it is claimed to depart its gate at 1030 hours.

UPDATE: QF69, the 0920 hours MEL-DEL with the usual A332, in this case VH-EBR, took off at 1016 hours so arrival in the Indian capital should be roughly 1716 hours, 46 minutes tardy.

'The 87' from SYD to distant ICN has A333 VH-QPB that looks to have undertaken a return freight flight (?) yesterday (QF7721/QF7722) SYD-DRW-HKG-DRW-SYD, quite an epic trip, arriving back in SYD at 0854 this morning, 34 late. The Seoul-bound flight was therefore able to become airborne at 1048 hours with estimated gate arrival tonight of 1902 hours, 42 minutes behind the timetable.

 

[Melburnian1]

QF23 (1030 hours SYD-BKK) has been further delayed to an estimated 1405 hours out of Sydney for destination Bangkok, much as I opined.

Granted, aircraft can sometimes arrive a bit earlier than QFi or FR24/other sites predict, but if it's relatively easy for me to estimate when a flight may leave (based on historical, typical turnaround times), why can't airlines such as QFi initially post a more credible departure time rather than producing a wildly optimistic estimate that has little or no chance of becoming reality?

You wonder how much human intervention there is with published estimates on airline 'flight status' pages. If the answer is 'none' or 'very little', programmers ought be asked to make some changes. Rubbish in, rubbish out as the old saying goes.

UPDATE: The estimate has just changed again - to 1430 hours, four hours late. So probably arriving BKK at 1930 hours or later, with the 1800 hours QF24 BKK-SYD redeye perhaps able to push back at 2100 mid evening local time.

QF81 (1230 hours SYD-SIN) is further delayed to a suggested 1430 hours pushback this afternoon. Fortunately the timetable has a greater than minimum, 135 minute turnaround in Singapore (assuming it forms 'the 82', not always the case) so in theory it can catch up a little, but the 2005 hours redeye back to SYD (QF82) is likely to depart late if not swapping aircraft.

 

[Melburnian1]

The delayed QF23 (1030 hours SYD-BKK) took off on Tuesday 3 January 2023 at 1501 hours. Estimated at gate arrival is 2010 hours, four hours late, so QF24 is unlikely to push back from its gate earlier than 2130 tonight, which would be 210 minutes late. A333 VH-QPJ has the task.

QF81 with QPE followed not long after, taking off from SYD at 1512 for a suggested at gate SIN arrival time of 2006 hours, 136 minutes behind the timetable. Hopefully the 2005 hours QF82 back down overnight to SYD (if it forms that) will depart at around 2135 hours.

 

[789nerd]

Tuesday : I was having difficulty getting my head around the QF94 LAX-MEL (B789) delays.

It appears that the QF94 currrently in flight is Sunday's 23 hr 59 minute delayed "service" (B789 VH-ZNB as QF94D), with arrival in Sydney at 07:00 AEDT Wednesday, 23 hrs late.
Monday's QF 94 is shown as departing 4 hrs 25 minutes late at 01:30 PST Tuesday, with Sydney arrival at 11:25 AEDT Wednesday, 3 hrs 25 minutes late.

Sydney bound passengers are no better off, with Monday's QF12 LAX-SYD delayed 11 hours to depart Los Angeles at 09:30 PST Tuesday, with Sydney arrival now 19:35 AEDT Wednesday, with same delay.

Interesting that the Melbourne bound flights can make up an hour, while the Sydney one can't.

 

[Flyerqf]

Interesting that the Melbourne bound flights can make up an hour, while the Sydney one can't.

Different aircraft 789 v 388, not sure if that has anything to do with it?

 

[Melburnian1]

Tuesday : I was having difficulty getting my head around the QF94 LAX-MEL (B789) delays.

Don't worry, when flights are delayed a day or more, some monitoring sites such as FR24 have extreme difficulty coping, and in some cases simply state 'unknown.' It must be near impossible to program for (especially) multi-day delays.

Post automatically merged: Jan 3, 2023

Hope the passenger involved is ok and sounds like the QF team did a great job!

I reckon we can back it in the aircraft won't be off from ATH to LHR for many hours.

Enjoy the changed arrangements that on this occasion cannot be helped.

 

[789nerd]

Different aircraft 789 v 388, not sure if that has anything to do with it?

Probably. Appears I'm a week out re when the extra A380 is replacing B789s.

 

[Melburnian1]

A388 VH-OQD on Tuesday 3 January's 1705 hours QF1 from SYD to SIN and LHR was in the sky from the Harbour capital at 1809 early this evening. A388 VH-OQD looks to be arriving SIN at 2246 hours, 36 minutes late.

 

[Flyerqf]

Sydney bound passengers are no better off, with Monday's QF12 LAX-SYD delayed 11 hours to depart Los Angeles at 09:30 PST Tuesday, with Sydney arrival now 19:35 AEDT Wednesday, with same delay.

This could delay QF1 tomorrow afternoon. Normally QF12 forms QF1.

 

[gethsemene]

Just got an alert (in app) of delay to tomorrow morning, if I turn up at Heathrow, will they get me a hotel?

 

[Flyerqf]

QF81 with QPE followed not long after, taking off from SYD at 1512 for a suggested at gate SIN arrival time of 2006 hours, 136 minutes behind the timetable. Hopefully the 2005 hours QF82 back down overnight to SYD (if it forms that) will depart at around 2135 hours.

I hadn’t noticed this before but it appears that one of the A330’s between QF35/51/71/81 overnights at SIN each day. Today QPE is overnighting so the delay on QF81 won’t impact tonight’s services AU bound from SIN.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Tuesday 3 January, QF23 with A333 VH-QPJ arrived BKK at 1952 hours, 222 minutes late. QF24, the 1800 hours BKK-SYD then was airborne at
2135 hours so SYD arrival on Wednesday 4 is an estimated 1041 hours, 191 minutes behind schedule.

'The 20' (redeye from MNL down to SYD) arrived this morning at 0658 hours, 43 minute stardy.

A388 VH-OQH has not long arrived on QF2 from SIN and before that, LHR in SYD at 0719 hours, 69 minutes late.

A333 VH-QPB on QF87, the SYD up to ICN arrived last night at 1915 hours, 55 late so this morning's QF88 estimated at gate time arriving SYD is 0929 hours, 74 minutes behind its timetable.

A388 VH-OQD on 'the 1' from SYD and more recently SIN should arrive LHR today at 0658 hours, 43 minutes late and turn around to operate the delayed overnight QF2 that remains displaying as a proposed 0900 hours pushback. Given the time it seems to take to fulfil all the tasks, 0930 or later 'off blocks' might be a bit more realistic.

The ATH to LHR continuation of the diverted medical emergency QF1 flight is still expected to arrive LHR at 1525 mid afternoon local time so hopefully aircraft VH-OQJ will form tonight's 2040 hours ex LHR QF2 without any delay dramas.

Refer above to post #14050 for severe delays affecting LAX to Australia and vice versa QFi flights.

 

[Flyerqf]

Yesterdays QF65 PER-JNB is delayed 24 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

Yesterdays QF65 PER-JNB is delayed 24 hours.

This is A332 VH-EBO.