Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[tomlee1986]

QF19 has diverted to CNS. Pax will overnight at CNS with the onward flight scheduled for 0800 tomorrow morning.

The aircraft is EBK (A332) - landed at 1730 after departing Sydney on time for MNL

 

[Nexus007]

Currently in Cairns airport after landed from SIN (SQ 203). Talking to one of the QF19 passenger, she said the pilot mentioned something about smoke smell in the plane so they had to divert to Cairns.

 

[tomlee1986]

Currently in Cairns airport after landed from SIN (SQ 203). Talking to one of the QF19 passenger, she said the pilot mentioned something about smoke smell in the plane so they had to divert to Cairns.

luckily they landed safely and no harm done other than delayed travel

 

[Melburnian1]

QF19 has diverted to CNS. Pax will overnight at CNS with the onward flight scheduled for 0800 tomorrow morning.

This has changed to become an expected pushback on Monday 20 January 2025 from CNS at 1100 local time for A332 VH-EBK as QF19D to MNL.

 

[wenglock.mok]

And... on today's QF19 (SYD-MNL), VH-EBS appears to have aborted take off and returned to the gate, with a re-scheduled departure now of 16.30.

This will affect tonight's QF20 from MNL to SYD, which will now depart at 22.45 if all goes well with whatever the issue is with EBS.

 

[tomlee1986]

And... on today's QF19 (SYD-MNL), VH-EBS appears to have aborted take off and returned to the gate, with a re-scheduled departure now of 16.30.

This will affect tonight's QF20 from MNL to SYD, which will now depart at 22.45 if all goes well with whatever the issue is with EBS.

Sounds like this A330 fleet is being used extensively to the point of collapse if not managed carefully

 

[flydoc]

today's QF19 (SYD-MNL), VH-EBS appears to have aborted take off and returned to the gate

Had it commenced the takeoff roll, or did the return occur during taxi?

 

[elanshin]

@Melburnian1 Maybe a full overhaul of A330 fleet (both A332 & 333) are urgently needed?!

We all know the whole fleet is stretched thin. It's nothing new. They can't exactly send planes into the shop during peak period. We'll see schedule decreases once we move past thr summer. If anything they're down 1 a380 than they would've liked with how long OQC is taking to come back into service (unlikely until 2026 now). Then we see some of the issues with the 787s. Everything is just dominos during the peak period when things go awry.

The 330 fleet is already scheduled for maintenance and refurbishment (a portion of them) this year.

Edit: also we have no idea what material impact the engineer strikes have had on QF. They say not much. But a few less maintenance hours here and there can see the small things pile up eventually resulting in a thing they can't actually take off with broken.

 

[RB001]

Had it commenced the takeoff roll, or did the return occur during taxi?

Didn't crack 30 knots.

 

[tomlee1986]

This was yesterday (19/01/25)delay - QF43 was delayed from Sydney to Bali due to this below!

"Qantas Airbus A330-203 aircraft (VH-EBL) received a dent on its Nose Radome while operating flight QF43 from Sydney (SYD) to Bali's Denpasar Bali Ngurah Rai (DPS) on 19 January. The aircraft component damage was attended by the maintenance team. The same aircraft has been scheduled to operate the return flight from Denpasar (DPS) to Sydney (SYD), and the departure has been rescheduled to 9:41 PM Local time."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880984539066941840

 

[RB001]

This has changed to become an expected pushback on Monday 20 January 2025 from CNS at 1100 local time for A332 VH-EBK as QF19D to MNL.

Ended up getting away at 1248 - just now arriving at the gate in MNL.

 

[tomlee1986]

Ended up getting away at 1248 - just now arriving at the gate in MNL.

hope there will be some compensation points for this extended delay for this flight