Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[789nerd]

Also on Wednesday 12, QF21 (B789 VH-ZNH), the 1245 hours SYD-DFW was not airborne until 1416 so gate arrival same day at 1442, 57 behind is the forecast.

Fortunately delays with QF21 can be contained by swapping the aircraft to QF8, provided that days QF7 is reasonably on time, as was the case here. The return QF22 was operated on-time by B789 VH-ZNE which had brought QF7 into Dallas. ZNH subsequently operated QF8 on time.

It seems there is enough 'stretch' in the B789 Northern Summer Schedule to allow one aircraft to be missing - namely VH-ZND which has been in LAX maintenance since arriving with QF11 on Monday. This follows a 48 hour layover in Sydney Maintenance 1st to 3rd April (having positioned from Melbourne), and a 4½ day layover in Melbourne Maintenance 22nd to 26th March (having positioned from Sydney) !!

 

[Flyerqf]

Thanks: I incorrectly thought QFi was aiming to only bring back A380s that had been refurbished.

When will this aircraft receive that time in workshops? Are there to be other A380s reentering service unrefurbished?

The original plan was to only bring back refurbished A380’s but due to delays in getting refurbs done due to backlog in global A380 maintenance facilities, QF brought OQL back unrefurbed. Due to staff shortages at HKG, there is a restriction on movements so MEL-HKG-MEL was pulled and the A380 put on SYD-HKG-SYD to offset lost MEL capacity.

 

[789nerd]

Fortunately delays with QF21 can be contained by swapping the aircraft to QF8, provided that days QF7 is reasonably on time, as was the case here. The return QF22 was operated on-time by B789 VH-ZNE which had brought QF7 into Dallas. ZNH subsequently operated QF8 on time.

Sting in the tail ... at 04:20 AEDT this (Friday) morning, when QF22 was already south of Sydney the flight was diverted to Brisbane, arriving at 5:44. The aircraft is currently positioning to Melbourne as QF6005, having departed Brisbane at 9:36 AEDT, so presume QF22's passengers were transferred to domestic flights.

 

[docjames]

There was fog around Melbourne pre-dawn this morning I would hazard a guess that is why It diverted.

Sting in the tail ... at 04:20 AEDT this (Friday) morning, when QF22 was already south of Sydney the flight was diverted to Brisbane, arriving at 5:44. The aircraft is currently positioning to Melbourne as QF6005, having departed Brisbane at 9:36 AEDT, so presume QF22's passengers were transferred to domestic flights.

 

[Flyfrequently]

The original plan was to only bring back refurbished A380’s but due to delays in getting refurbs done due to backlog in global A380 maintenance facilities, QF brought OQL back unrefurbed. Due to staff shortages at HKG, there is a restriction on movements so MEL-HKG-MEL was pulled and the A380 put on SYD-HKG-SYD to offset lost MEL capacity.

Thanks @Flyerqf
My email indicated Qantas' ground handler is the cause of the changes.

 

[jrfsp]

Looks like QF94 diverted to SYD this morning.

Yesterday’s QF 778 had a 7 hour delay leaving PER! Looks like EBJ went tech after arrival as QF773.

 

[789nerd]

Looks like QF94 diverted to SYD this morning.

This QF94 was operated by B789 VH-ZND which was delayed coming out of LAX maintenance, leaving Los Angeles 4 hours 27 minutes late. It transited through Sydney this morning, arriving at 09:40 AEST, and was due to depart at 10:55, but departed at 11:50 (a further 55 minutes late) for an eventual Melbourne arrival at 13:02 AEST - overall 8 hours 17 minutes late.

However, in an improvement on recent performance, ZND was able to depart with today's QF9 (MEL-PER-LHR) only 16 minutes late at 15:21 AEST.

 

[Melburnian1]

For the second time in five days, QF1 (1510 hours mid afternopon SYD-SIN-LHR) is badly delayed, with departure expected at 2130 mid evening. This should mean eventual LHR arrival on Sunday 16 April at 1000 hours or later (timetable is 0635 hours).

On Saturday 15, A388 VH-OQJ on QF1 arrived LHR at 0743 hours, 68 late. This flight had arrived SIN yesterday evening at 2046 hours, 44 minutes ahead of schedule.

Saturday's QF2 (the scheduled 2055 hours ex LHR) has been delayed overnight until 1000 hours on Sunday 16 (785 minutes late), so the SIN stop should be from around 0630 to what QFi claims 0750 (optimistic) on Monday 17 and therefore SYD at gate arrival around 1735 or later.

Monday 17's QF1 is suggested as arriving SIN on time but its normal 2330 hours late night departure for London heathrow won't occur until 0810 hours, with consequent LHR at gate arrival approximately 1520 hours on Tuesday 18, 525 minutes late. This will be due to crew requiring mandated rest hours in Singapore, but affected by previous late running of 'the 2'.

A332 VH-EBV on QF67, the 0905 hours morning SYD-BLR was airborne at 1016 hours so a 44 minute late at gate 1704 hours arrival is the expectation.

 

[Melburnian1]

Sunday 16 April 2023 has seen QF2, the LHR-SIN-SYD flight arrive the latter at 0637 hours, 87 minutes late with A388 VH-OQG. It was only 27 late arriving in SIN on 15 April's late afternoon.

The delayed Saturday QF1 (OQH) took off from SYD at 2206 hours. The intermediate SIN stop was from 0400 hours, 390 minutes late, but it has yet to take off for LHR. The aircraft had arrived in SYD yesterday bang on time at 0745 hours as QF12 from LAX. Was this a crewing delay, rather than an aircraft fault?

A333 VH-QPF is arriving as QF88 from ICN at an estimated 0911 hours in SYD, 41 minutes tardy.

QF103 arrived in HNL on Saturday 15's late morning at 1101 hours, 36 late with A332 VH-EBR. Once a week this flight is an A332 (not the usual A333).

 

[789nerd]

Sunday sees two B789 flight delays, one in Melbourne, the other in Sydney ...

QF21 MEL-DFW (B789 VH-ZNA) pushed back at 14:25 AEST 100 minutes late. It is expected to regain some time to be 52 minutes late into Dallas at 14:37 CDT.

QF27 SYD-SCL (B789 VH-ZNE) pushed back at 14:38 AEST, 123 minutes late. It is also expected to regain some time to be 50 minutes late into Santiago at 12:55 CLT.

 

[Melburnian1]

The initial MEL-CGK QF39 was on Sunday 16 April 2023. This 1510 hours flight did not become airborne until 1647, so estimated at gate arrival becomes 2040 hours, 85 minutes late for A332 VH-EBQ. This aircraft had arrived in MEL this afternoon at 1233, only three minutes late as QF70 overnight from DEL. Perhaps the speeches re QF39 went over time. Inauspicious start re punctuality!

QF40, the inaugural QFi CGK-MEL is timetabled out at 2100 hours but is more likely to push back at about 2205-2220 hours late this evening Jakarta time.

 

[Melburnian1]

VH-OQJ, the overnight delayed (scheduled as QF2 ex LHR 2055 hours mid evening on Saturday 15 April) departed its LHR terminal at 1010 (10 later than hoped for) on Sunday 16, and took off quite promptly at 1028, seemingly receiving priority over some smaller aircraft.

QFi claims it'll be at its SIN gate at 0644 tomorrow morning, 794 minutes behind schedule. This will make the previously forecast 0750 hours pushback impossible, backing up how I opined above it was 'optimistic'. At a guess SYD arrival tomorrow night may be 1845 hours or later.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

… including electronic cigarettes on time departures… whatever they are!

 

[Melburnian1]

789nerd's information about yesterday's QF27 delay means QF28, the SCL-SYD with B789 VH-ZNE should arrive on Monday 17 April at about 1911 hours, 71 minutes behind schedule.

Sunday 16's QF11 (A388 VH-OQG) arrived LAX (ex SYD) at 0748 hours, 43 minutes late.

Today's QF11 is far worse, with this 1020 hours SYD-LAX delayed in pushback to an expected 1830 hours this early evening. It seems to regularly be a B789 on Mondays only.

The overnight delayed QF2 (scheduled Saturday 14 evening departure from LHR) with A388 VH-OQJ was in SIN this morning from 0623 hours to takeoff at 0830, so predicted SYD at gate arrival becomes 1745 hours, 755 minutes late.

Sunday 16's QF1 (VH_OQK) took off from SYD at 1702 hours, and stayed in Singapore from 2241 to takeoff at 0127 on Monday 17, so predicted arrival in London at Heathrow is 0835 hours local time, an even two hours tardy.

 

[Melburnian1]

OQL has a rest on Mondays. OQH operated QF127 on 10/4.

OQL is not being rotated through LHR or LAX as it is in the old configuration not refurbished.

On Monday 17 April 2023, A388 VH-OQL is operating QF127 (1035 hours SYD-HKG) for the seventh consecutive day. This may be due to QF2 being an expected 755 minutes late, arriving in Sydney late this afternoon at about 1745 hours, as the Saturday evening 2055 hours scheduled pushback turned into a 1010 hours Sunday departure.

 

[Mattg]

The initial MEL-CGK QF39 was on Sunday 16 April 2023. This 1510 hours flight did not become airborne until 1647, so estimated at gate arrival becomes 2040 hours, 85 minutes late for A332 VH-EBQ. This aircraft had arrived in MEL this afternoon at 1233, only three minutes late as QF70 overnight from DEL. Perhaps the speeches re QF39 went over time. Inauspicious start re punctuality!

QF40, the inaugural QFi CGK-MEL is timetabled out at 2100 hours but is more likely to push back at about 2205-2220 hours late this evening Jakarta time.

I was on this flight. There were no speeches - the delay was because engineers needed to do some work on the plane after its previous flight. There was then an issue with loading a wheelchair into the cargo hold.

 

[Melburnian1]

I was on this flight. There were no speeches - the delay was because engineers needed to do some work on the plane after its previous flight. There was then an issue with loading a wheelchair into the cargo hold.

Whether there's a nexus between the increasingly elderly QFi fleet and late departures is hard to know from outside the company, but QFi's punctuality is shocking on many routes compared to overseas-based airlines that operate here. GA was a better (time-wise) performer on Sunday to CGK ex MEL than QFi, with GA717 arriving CGK 21 late compared to QF39's 68 minutes late at gate in CGK (2023 hours).

QF40's inaugural run saw it arrive MEL this morning at 0710 hours, half an hour behind schedule, with a prompt turnaround in Jakarta assisting the partial timetable recovery.

'The 19' from SYD to MNL had been somewhat better in the last couple of weeks but prior to that it was a notorious late runner for several weeks. It's back to day to its old form with this 1215 hours scheduled flight amended to depart at an estimated 1330 in the early afternoon.

 

[Anna]

Does anyone know what is going on with today's QF1 ex SYD?

If I am reading it right, it will arrive in SIN on schedule at 9.30pm tonight but then instead of a 2 hour transit in SIN, pax will have to stay overnight in SIN and continue the journey to LHR departing SIN at 8.10am tomorrow morning?? Does anyone know why?

 

[jrfsp]

Does anyone know what is going on with today's QF1 ex SYD?

If I am reading it right, it will arrive in SIN on schedule at 9.30pm tonight but then instead of a 2 hour transit in SIN, pax will have to stay overnight in SIN and continue the journey to LHR departing SIN at 8.10am tomorrow morning?? Does anyone know why?

On time performance on QF1/2 has been terrible for months.

 

[jrfsp]

Today's QF11 is far worse, with this 1020 hours SYD-LAX delayed in pushback to an expected 1830 hours this early evening. It seems to regularly be a B789 on Mondays only.

According to google QF11 is delayed until 18:30 tomorrow!