Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Tuesday 28 February 2023 - the last day of summer - sees QF76 from YVR to SYD arriving with B789 VH-ZND at 0746 hours, 1511 minutes late as it was unable to depart YVR on the night intended due to crew duty hours being exceeded.

Sister VNC is on 'the 64' long trip from JNB across to SYD, arriving this afternoon at a suggested 1355 hours, half an hour behind schedule.

QF10 with ZNG last night pulled into its MEL gate at 2110 hours, 45 late after serving LHR and PER. The previous night, ZNF came in to MEL an hour late at 2125.

A333 VH-QPF from HKG overnight to SYD as QF128 arrived on Tuesday morning at 0740 hours, one hour tardy.

QF1 from SIN to LHR has A388 VH-OQK and is expected to arrive this morning British standard time at about 0654, 39 late. This flight has a poor punctuality record: rarely does it arrive within 15 minutes of the scheduled gate time.

 

[Melburnian1]

Also on the last day of 2023's February, QF69, the 0920 hours midmorning MEL-DEL with A332 VH-EBN was in the sky at 1016 so gate arrival should be at around the 1701 hours, 31 late, mark.

'The 81' from SYD to SIN is a 1230 hours timetabled departure with allegedly an A333 but it's displaying as delayed until 1345. More often than not, this offering is a good runner, frequently arriving at or very close to time in the Lion City.

A333 VH-QPG on last night's QF103 (2040 hours SYD up to HNL) arrived on Monday morning HNL local time at 1026, 61 late. The 1110 hours southbound QF104 was up up and away at 1310, so tonight's mid evening arrival at 2015 hours will be 95 behind.

 

[789nerd]

Monday's QF22 DFW-MEL (B789 VH-ZNJ) pushed back 22 minutes late in Dallas, and is expected to loose time on the westbound track to arrive in Melbourne at 06:32 AEDT Wednesday morning, 47 minutes late.

Today's QF27 SYD-SCL (B789 VH-ZND) is being shown with a 60 minute delay for a 13:35 AEDT Sydney departure, and the arrival in Santiago down to 30 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

QF81 (see two posts above) on Tuesday 28 February took off at 1409 hours from SYD with A333 VH-QPI, so expected gate arrival becomes 1849 hours, 59 late into the 'Lion City' of SIN.

 

[Melburnian1]

QF12, the 2230 hours Monday 27 February LAX to SYD with A388 VH-OQD was airborne at 0006 hours on Tuesday 28 so Wednesday 1 March estimated at gate arrival is 90 minutes behind at 1005 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Wednesday 1 March 2023, QF2 (A388 VH-OQB) arrived in Sydney at 0657 hours, 47 minutes late.

The next one (OQK), the 2040 hours on Tuesday night ex LHR is showing on FR24 as departing at 2126, so it may be similarly late arriving at its Sydney gate tomorrow morning.

A332 VH-EBG on the SIN-MEL QF36 arrived this morning at 0642, 32 late.

A333 VH-QPB arrived in ICN as QF87 from SYD at 1814 hours, a creditable six minutes early, but looks to be delayed overnight as it's displaying as departing on Wednesday 1 at 1800 hours with QF88 instead of Tuesday 28 at the normal 1950 hours scheduled time. Arrival in Sydney tomorrowe morning should be around 0620 hours, 1325 minutes late. The weather in Seoul continues to be very cold at night, minus 4 to minus 1 being teh lows but that's hardly unusual.

'The 12' with A388 VH-OQD from LAX to SYD should arrive this morning at 0952, 77 minutes behind time.

A333 VH-QPI was on the often punctual QF52 from SIN down to BNE overnight, arriving at 0614, 64 late.

B789 VH-ZNJ on QF22 from DFW down to MEL wasn't much better, pulling in to its gate at 0628 hours, 43 behind.

 

[Melburnian1]

It's unusual for QF81 (1230 hours lunchtime SYD-SIN) to be delayed on two consecutive days, but on 1 March that's occurring, with A333 VH-QPE airborne at 1409 hours for predicted gate arrival at 1851, 61 minutes tardy. The aircraft had been in Sydney since Sunday night when it arrived 37 minutes late at 1917 hours as QF104 from HNL.

'The 19' (1225 hours SYD-MNL) is similar, with QPJ having arrived in Sydney nine minutes early at 1941 hours as QF148 from AKL, but today's offering to Manila taking off at 1402 for estimated at gate arrival of 1842 hours, 72 late. QF209 back overnight will be similarly delayed in pushback but may pick up some time on the way down.

 

[Melburnian1]

A333 VH-QPC had been in SYD all day but this didn't stop the Wednesday 1 March QF103 (2040 hours SYD-HNL) not taking off until 2202 hours. Arrival on Wednesday morning should be at about 1021 hours, 56 late, ensuring QF104 southbound will also be tardy.

It's embarrassing how often these yo-yo flights that sometimes use an aircraft for three consecutive return trips run late.

QPH came in from AKL as QF148 at 2025, 35 late so understandably QF25 (normally 2135 hours SYD-HND redeye) is expected to push back at 2230, which should be achievable.

 

[OATEK]

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QF1 from SIN to LHR has A388 VH-OQK and is expected to arrive this morning British standard time at about 0654, 39 late. This flight has a poor punctuality record: rarely does it arrive within 15 minutes of the scheduled gate time.

We'll, looks like QF have taken your criticism on board and have set back QF departure to 16:10, with same arrival time in London.

 

[Melburnian1]

We'll, looks like QF have taken your criticism on board and have set back QF departure to 16:10, with same arrival time in London.

OATEK, what date does this begin from? If only from the commencement of daylight saving in the UK from the last Sunday in March, isn't it a five minute speeding up of the timetable rather than a 55 minute slowing? (I'm hoping I can still calculate time differences).

If it is a net slowing of 55 minutes as you imply, this unfortunately inconveniences businessmen and women who have to leave work earlier if they've a busy schedule. I'm referring to the types who may be about to meet critically important clients in UK or on The Continent, but also have a heavy day before that in Australia.

It's not so bad for leisure travellers, although it means less time sightseeing on their 'final day' if they're a visitor. However it's not as if it's an 0900 hours departure put back to 0800 that'd make it hard to reach the airport by 0600 by mass transit.

It's good they've recognised the poor timekeeping but OATEK I wonder will it improve? In theory, yes, but perhaps there are systemic issues as to why the QAN aircraft so often cannot keep to the scheduled time allowed on the ground in Singapore. Yet British Airways, the only one we're able to directly compare to (given every other 'Kangaroo Route' schedule doesn't go via SIN and often involves two different aircraft at the 'interchange' of say AUH/BKK/DOH/DXB/HND/ICN/KUL/LAX), seems to not have much difficulty in keeping the schedules.

There's been little featured in media lately but airspace still seems crowded due to airlines' understandable unwillingness to fly over Iran, and inability to do so over Russia given sanctions (which include hitting it financially, as airlines previously doing that would pay for the privilege). IIRC that was adding half an hour to total flight time, but QFi previously allowed for this.

We'll probably never know but as Quickstatus reminds us occasionally, has QF recently been asked by LHR management why its timekeeping is so poor? Last time, pre-COVID-19, this became public knowledge as QAN representatives apparently had to meet with Heathrow management as the latter were concerned at QFi's inability to use its designated time slots. Anyone who's ever been to Heathrow knows how frequent the arrivals and departures are.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Thursday 2 March, QF19 with A333 VH_QPJ for the second consecutive day took off from SYD on this 1225 hours SYD-MNL at 1401, and almost in a replica of the previous day, arrived MNL at 1838, 68 late. The return redeye QF20 was airborne at 2054, arriving on Friday 3 at 0736 hours, 81 behind.

Yesterday A332 VH-EBO as QF69 from MEL up to DEL arrived 24 minutes late at 1654 local time, but 'the 70' back down overnight is not expected to be at its MEL gate until 1302 this afternoon, 57 minutes behind schedule.

QF1 from SYD and SIN is suggested as arriving LHR's gate on Friday 3 at about 0735 hours, 80 late with A388 VH-OQG.

 

[OATEK]

This unfortunately inconveniences businessmen and women who have to leave work earlier if they've a busy schedule. I'm referring to the types who may be about to meet critically important clients in UK or on The Continent, but also have a heavy day before that in Australia.

It's not so bad for leisure travellers, although it means less time sightseeing on their 'final day' if they're a visitor. However it's not as if it's an 0900 hours departure put back to 0800 that'd make it hard to reach the airport by 0600 by mass transit.

It's good they've recognised the poor timekeeping but OATEK I wonder will it improve? In theory, yes, but perhaps there are systemic issues as to why the QAN aircraft so often cannot keep to the scheduled time allowed on the ground in Singapore. Yet British Airways, the only one we're able to directly compare to (given every other 'Kangaroo Route' schedule doesn't go via SIN and often involves two different aircraft at the 'interchange' of say AUH/BKK/DOH/DXB/HND/ICN/KUL/LAX), seems to not have much difficulty in keeping the schedules.

There's been little featured in media lately but airspace still seems crowded due to airlines' understandable unwillingness to fly over Iran, and inability to do so over Russia given sanctions (which include hitting it financially, as airlines previously doing that would pay for the privilege). IIRC that was adding half an hour to total flight time, but QFi previously allowed for this.

We'll probably never know but as Quickstatus reminds us occasionally, has QF recently been asked by LHR management why its timekeeping is so poor? Last time, pre-COVID-19, this became public knowledge as QAN representatives apparently had to meet with Heathrow management as the latter were concerned at QFi's inability to use its designated time slots. Anyone who's ever been to Heathrow knows how frequent the arrivals and departures are.

You could have just taken the win. Those poor business man who will leave the office straight after lunch either way given only a 45min change will manage I expect.

 

[789nerd]

Not sure what's happening with today's QF63 (B789 VH-ZND). It pushed back at 09:46 AEDT, a few minutes late, then when approaching the cross runway (07/25), turned back & is now parked up in one of the layover bays ?

Edit : Eventually took off at 11:09 AEDT, and now expected into Jo'burg at 15:55 SAST, 80 minutes late

 

[789nerd]

Eventually took off at 11:09 AEDT, and now expected into Jo'burg at 15:55 SAST, 80 minutes late

The return QF64 JNB-SYD has now been updated to show a 50 minute delay in departing Jo'burg at 17:25 SAST, with revised arrival in Sydney of 14:00 AEDT Saturday, 35 minutes late.

 

[789nerd]

In the opposite direction, today's QF93 MEL-LAX is shown as delayed 60 minutes to 12 noon AEDT, with same delay into Los Angeles

 

[Melburnian1]

You could have just taken the win. Those poor business man who will leave the office straight after lunch either way given only a 45min change will manage I expect.

But when does it start, and is it just reflecting the change of an hour in time in the UK in a few weeks?

 

[Melburnian1]

A388 VH-OQB on the Friday 3 March QF11 (1120 hours SYD-LAX) took off at 1240 hours so same day gate arrival should be 0639, 34 minutes late.

 

[789nerd]

Another B789 delay after 2 days of on time flights :

QF27 SYD-SCL (B789 VH-ZNI) was 55 minutes late pushing back in Sydney early this afternoon, however is expected to pick-up time to be only 23 minutes late into Santiago at 11:18 CLST.

Edit : Curious that ZNI operated the QF332 LHR-PER-MEL flights yesterday, then had to position from Melbourne to Sydney early this morning to operate QF27. Seems the intended schedule for QF332 of LHR-PER-SYD could have negated this delay.

 

[OATEK]

But when does it start, and is it just reflecting the change of an hour in time in the UK in a few weeks?

It affects my flight in a few weeks which is before daylight saving ends here.

 

[Melburnian1]

It affects my flight in a few weeks which is before daylight saving ends here.

Yes, but it must be after daylight saving commences in the UK, so it's really only a five minute change to schedules if my maths is correct, reflecting how Australia is an hour further behind the UK between 26 March (when UK goes on to daylight saving or 'summer' time) and 2 April, when we cease AEDT/ACDT.

So if true, QAN hasn't listened to anyone annoyed that these flights are so often tardy.