Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[ABC1]

Not just the A380 but the A330-300 too - so many delays on that fleet recently

In the past week, Qantas cancelled three of its Sydney-Los Angeles QF11 flights on the A380 super jumbo. This is on top of two Melbourne-LA QF94flights being cancelled in the past 10 days.

A Qantas engineer said the company “keeps a lot of B787 and A380 parts in Los Angeles. That means a 24-48 hour delay if the aircraft breaks in Sydney and the parts are in LAX. This is just plain stupid planning and management.”But

 

[Bundy Bear]

Gee thanks Qantas, just arrived in Sydney

 

[Bundy Bear]

And the flight is canceled
How do you get out of Sydney airport departures i have hotel booking via Qantas

 

[serfty]

 

[Melburnian1]

@Bundy Bear , I wasn't quite sure what you meant by this:

How do you get out of Sydney airport departures i have hotel booking via Qantas

(If you meant that you need to go back into 'the real world', QFi staff will organise that as my understanding is they need to liaise with Boarder Force staff).

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@Bundy Bear , you were however correct to be worried, as it turned out. I feel sorry for you although these sort of overnight delays must be worst for parents travelling with babies and toddlers. Delayed businessmen and women would come a close second.

Your A388 tonight for QF11 was to be VH-OQD that has been in Sydney since arriving five minutes early at 0805 hours as QF12 from LAX.

While safety has to be #1, it's appalling that QFi cancels so many QF11s from Australia's only truly international city (sorry, Melbourne!) to the gateway to the 39 million population of sunny California.

 

[Melburnian1]

Earlier today I missed the delay to QF63, the 1030 hours SYD-JNB that with A388 VH-OQI was airborne at 1134 hours with gate arrival suggested as 53 minutes late at 1703 hours.

Given the reliability problems with the A380s QFi has, it seems a mistake to have commenced this new route for that class of aircraft even thoiugh it's only five days a week, not daily.

 

[RSD]

And the flight is canceled
How do you get out of Sydney airport departures i have hotel booking via Qantas

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@Bundy Bear - did they tell you a reason for the 24 hour delay?

 

[Bundy Bear]

@Bundy Bear - did they tell you a reason for the 24 hour delay?

No reason, original delay was engineering

My concern now is my flight back is on QF12 next Monday lets hope its not a Monday cancellation again.

 

[RSD]

No reason, original delay was engineering

My concern now is my flight back is on QF12 next Monday lets hope its not a Monday cancellation again.

For your sake I hope so - its fast becoming a lottery instead of an airline. Surely someone at QFi will wake up soon and realise that they can't run all these services with the number of A380's they have and that they need to drop at least some of the JNB services back to a B787. It is fast becoming a joke.

 

[Flyerqf]

I don’t know why they can’t run QF11 at 8am tomorrow morning after the QF2 arrives around 6am, rather than waiting to 5:35pm.

The A380 fleet has more flex in it than previously but clearly disruption recovery is not at easy for QF compared to other airlines.

 

[TheDefenestrator]

QF156 (B738 VH-VZR, the 1515 hours AKL-MEL took off at 1605 hours. Forecast arrival becomes 1801 hours, 36 late.

Passenger disembarked due to feeling unwell prior to plane departing the gate and bags needed to be unloaded. I hope they will be alright.

 

[serfty]

I don’t know why they can’t run QF11 at 8am tomorrow morning after the QF2 arrives around 6am, rather than waiting to 5:35pm.

The A380 fleet has more flex in it than previously but clearly disruption recovery is not at easy for QF compared to other airlines.

8th October QF11 has been XLD.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I don’t know why they can’t run QF11 at 8am tomorrow morning after the QF2 arrives around 6am, rather than waiting to 5:35pm.

The A380 fleet has more flex in it than previously but clearly disruption recovery is not at easy for QF compared to other airlines.

The mid day departure had more options for on connections, an 8am departure would get to LA around 2am. The previous midday departure got in around 7am with lots of connecting options.

 

[serfty]

 

[Melburnian1]

8th October QF11 has been XLD.

On another recent day when 'the 11' was cancelled, QFi fitted all passengers from two QF11 scheduled flights into one, so loadings (at least in the northeast direction) must be less than I'd have thought.

 

[serfty]

On another recent day when 'the 11' was cancelled, QFi fitted all passengers from two QF11 scheduled flights into one, so loadings (at least in the northeast direction) must be less than I'd have thought.

Certainly - yesterdays (now delayed) QF11 has plenty of spare seats - even X9 (economy award) was available on the scheduled day of travel.

This WAS the economy seat map yesterday ~3 hours before scheduled departure time:

 

[Melburnian1]

Given its QF19 was tardy yesterday, on Tuesday 9 October, QF20 from MNL (A333 VH-QPD) arrived in SYD at 0832 hours, 52 minutes late.

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Certainly - yesterdays (now delayed) QF11 has plenty of spare seats - even X9 (economy award) was available on the scheduled day of travel.

@serfty , interesting, but isn't 'Expert Flyer' and similar a misleading picture because many passengers only receive a seat allocation when they check in, typically within three hours of the timetabled departure?

 

[Melburnian1]

Due to the woes affecting QF11 as above, the Tuesday 8 October 2024 QF12 (2245 hours LAX back to SYD) has also been cancelled.

 

[serfty]

@serfty , interesting, but isn't 'Expert Flyer' and similar a misleading picture because many passengers only receive a seat allocation when they check in, typically within three hours of the timetabled departure?

No!

With Qantas, the majority of people perform on line check in up to 24 hours before a flight or otherwise have preselected a seat before then.

 

[Melburnian1]

In more on Tuesday 8 October, A332 VH-EBN should arrive on QF68 from BLR down to SYD at about 1336 hours, 176 minutes late, as it did not take off from Bangalore last night until 2126 hours, given 'the 67' was tardy.