Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Friday night's 2040 hours scheduled QF2 from London took off at 2150, arriving SIN on Saturday 18 February at 1834, 64 minutes late. The aircraft (A388 VH-OQD) then did not take off for SYD until 2157 so this morning (Sunday 19) arrival at gate was at 0816 hours, 126 minutes late.

Meanwhile VH-OQH is on the QF11 (1120 hours) SYD-LAX with FR24 suggesting it won't push back until 1220 hours. (A few minutes ago, latter was displaying as '1236'). This is depsite the aircraft having been in Sydney for more than 24 hours. What is it about QF that it has so many delayed departures compared to competitors?

Class leader A333 VH-QPA is on QF87, the midmorning 0935 hours SYD-ICN that was up up and away at 1042 hours for suggested arrival 35 down at 1855 early this evening South Korean time.

B789 VH-ZNI has not long arrived in DFW (QF21 from MEL) at 1704 on Saturday 18. The returning QF22 is predicted to depart Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas USA an hour late at 2010 mid evening on Saturday.

VH-ZNC is operating yesterday's QF10 from LHR, the 1150 hours scheduled pushback that was airborne at lunchtime: 1313 hours. PER arrival on Sunday 19 looks to be 1314 hours, 49 minutes tardy so the 1355 hours onward sector to MEL is guaranteed to be late.

 

[789nerd]

QF28 has left NTL and is enroute to SYD…. finally.

Unlucky re the storm but poorly handled. If they had put pax on a bus they could have cleared customs at SYD early this morning.

& their baggage ?

This News report throws more light on what happened.

 

[789nerd]

Qantas have just pushed this departure out to 21:40 AEDT, which seems possible as B789 VH-ZNH is showing on FR24. Um, well no, that time has just passed.

Edit : Actual push back was 21:50 AEDT 85 minutes late. Too early to say what delay into Vancouver will be.

So QF75 ended up being 70 minutes late into Vancouver at 16:35 PST. This should not impact on the return QF76 which is still showing a 20:25 PST (on schedule) departure time.

 

[Melburnian1]

QF22 (B789 VH-ZNI) was initially said to be delayed by an hour (see above) but official revised pushback was put back to 2115 hours on Saturday 18, 120 minutes late.

However looking at the FR24 map, it isn't visible. Sometimes this may be due to buildings playing havoc with signal transmission, but often it's not a good sign. It's a lengthy shift for the pilots so a few hours' delay may mean the flight gets cancelled.

QF22 doesn't always form QF11 (MEL-LAX at 1100 AEDT) but if that's the roster for tomorrow morning, should 'the 22' be delayed for much longer, QF11 could be adversely affected time-wise.

UPDATE: By 2149 local time in DFW (1449 AEDT Sunday 19 February), QF22 had become visible on FR24. It was not moving, and may still have been at its gate.

 

[Quickstatus]

QF flight from Tongatapu

Whats the flight number?

 

[Melburnian1]

See two posts earlier: at 2157 on Saturday 18 February, 167 minutes late, QF22 (B789 VH-ZNI) departed DFW for MEL.

It took off at 2211, with QFi estimating gate arrval on Monday 19 in MEL at 0755 hours, quite a bit faster than the last three trips. Possible perhaps, but maybe a bit optimistic. Sometimes the QFi software adjusts the time a little later in the flight, typically after cruising altitude is reached.

 

[exLXCXFF]

Whats the flight number?

QF190 - looks like a normal flight number.

 

[789nerd]

QF22 doesn't always form QF11 (MEL-LAX at 1100 AEDT) but if that's the roster for tomorrow morning, should 'the 22' be delayed for much longer, QF11 could be adversely affected time-wise.

Presume QF93 MEL-LAX was meant here - B789 VH-ZNG operated this flight, pushing back 12 minutes late, with anticipated Los Angeles arrival on-time.

 

[Quickstatus]

QF190

Thats the once a week service.
Thanks

 

[eminere]

I also saw they was a QF flight from Tongatapu that was diverted to Canberra. Anyone know what this flight was for?

It's a regular scheduled service. See here.

 

[Melburnian1]

See two posts earlier: at 2157 on Saturday 18 February, 167 minutes late, QF22 (B789 VH-ZNI) departed DFW for MEL.

It took off at 2211, with QFi estimating gate arrval on Monday 19 in MEL at 0755 hours, quite a bit faster than the last three trips. Possible perhaps, but maybe a bit optimistic. Sometimes the QFi software adjusts the time a little later in the flight, typically after cruising altitude is reached.

Sure enough, QF22's MEL arrival time on Monday 20 February has changed (at gate) to 0852 hours via FR24.

 

[789nerd]

Today's PER-LHR service is operating as QF331, with the feeder service coming from Sydney (B789 VH-ZNA), however with a 16:00 AEDT scheduled departure being delayed until 17:07, and take off not until 17:48, the onward flight to London is currently shown as delayed one hour.

At present, the return flight QF332 is scheduled to depart in line with the the normal QF9 timing for LHR-PER. The onward sector to Sydney is estimated to arrive at 21:05 AEDT Tuesday.

There is another QF332 scheduled for 1st March and another QF331 scheduled for 3rd March.

 

[Quickstatus]

QF331

What's the reason for change in flight number?

 

[789nerd]

What's the reason for change in flight number?

Presumably as it originated in Sydney, rather than Melbourne. The timing of the scheduled PER-LHR & LHR-PER sectors is exactly as for QF9/QF10.

 

[789nerd]

There is another QF332 scheduled for 1st March and another QF331 scheduled for 3rd March.

Curious, while there is a QF331 SYD-PER feeder on the 3rd, I can't find a QF332 from Perth to Sydney on 2nd. So why change the flight number for the LHR-PER sector on 1st ?

 

[Quickstatus]

The timing of the scheduled PER-LHR & LHR-PER sectors is exactly as for QF9/QF10.

Possibly because it is more time efficient to make the international port of departure at SYD rather than PER?.

And made sense to use a different number to the MEL originating flight.

I can't find a QF332 from Perth to Sydney on 2nd

Maybe because the aircraft will terminate somewhere in AUS as a ferry?

Overall seems strange. Curious though at the reasons behind it

 

[Flyerqf]

I thought it was because the usual aircraft for QF9 today operated as the Antarctica flight.

 

[Quickstatus]

Anyone know why QF28 diverted to NTL and not CBR?

 

[789nerd]

I thought it was because the usual aircraft for QF9 today operated as the Antarctica flight.

That certainly is a possibility for the paired QF331 & QF332 flights, however what reason is there for the two unlinked QF332 & QF331 next week?

 

[Melburnian1]

With the SYD storm causing disruptions back on Friday 17 February including QF104 (A333 VH-QPC) from HNL to SYD diverting to CBR, the problems with the Honolulu route have intensifie.

On Friday night, the above aircraft took off from CBR at 2143, arriving SYD at gate at 2218 hours, 218 minutes late.

The Friday night mid evening 2040 hours QF103 from SYD to HNL did not take off until 1457 hours mid afternoon on Saturday 18. It arrived HNL (also with -QPC) at 0334 (shocking time) and then was airborne as QF104 at 0601 hours on Sunday 19 February, with suggested SYD arrival today (Monday 20) becoming 1244 hours, 1084 minutes late.

The Saturday 18 2040 hours on the same route had A333 VH-QPE. It was only 26 minutes late arriving HNL on Sunday 19 morning at 0951 hours but appears to be still on 'the big island'. FR24 says it is not departing for SYD from HNL on Sunday evening local time until 2245 hours, 695 minutes late. I assume this is due to the inbound crew the day before not having yet had the minimum mandated rest period.