Qantas flight from Auckland to Sydney makes mayday call

[RichardMEL]

Surely in the airline industry it’s up-gouged…….

not just. have you not seen how expensive UK rail travel has been... for a long, long time ?!

 

[RichardMEL]

Back to QF22 from Monday 30JAN. It did stop in AKL and flew on to MEL arriving around 1245 AEDT (7 hours delayed) Wednesday. The Wednesday QF21 MEL-DFW, STD 1400 was initially delayed 24h to 1400 Thursday - but with the same aircraft (VH-ZND). Why it was pushed 24h later exactly I'm uncertain. The first thought would be crew timeout, but that makes no sense - the inbound crew was never going to fly that one (of course) so I am not sure what happened there. Anyway I noticed Thursday morning the flight was fully cancelled, as was the (scheduled) QF22 from DFW of course. So that's been a mess and a half for QF.

VH-ZND is still seemingly in MEL (tech issue??)
Tomorrow (Sat 04FEB23) QF21 MEL-DFW is scheduled for the usual 1400 departure.

 

[p--and--t]

Media reporting last year is nz carries max 180 pax for jfk-akl. So 95 less than the number of seats. They tried flying with more pax when the route was launched but it created issues (baggage and pax needing to be offloaded).

Note they can carry a lot more pax akl-jfk thanks to tailwind. However, that direction still has many unsold seats.

Mental note! 95 empty seats, good chance of grabbing 3 in Y near the back and getting some sleep without paying J.

 

[Davo70]

Back to QF22 from Monday 30JAN. It did stop in AKL and flew on to MEL arriving around 1245 AEDT (7 hours delayed) Wednesday. The Wednesday QF21 MEL-DFW, STD 1400 was initially delayed 24h to 1400 Thursday - but with the same aircraft (VH-ZND). Why it was pushed 24h later exactly I'm uncertain. The first thought would be crew timeout, but that makes no sense - the inbound crew was never going to fly that one (of course) so I am not sure what happened there. Anyway I noticed Thursday morning the flight was fully cancelled, as was the (scheduled) QF22 from DFW of course. So that's been a mess and a half for QF.

VH-ZND is still seemingly in MEL (tech issue??)
Tomorrow (Sat 04FEB23) QF21 MEL-DFW is scheduled for the usual 1400 departure.

Same aircraft flying QF 9 PER - LHR last night diverted to Frankfurt.

 

[exLXCXFF]

How did no one / the media pick this diversion up? Because it’s not a “fancy” place like Baku? Do we know what happened?

 

[TheInsider]

How did no one / the media pick this diversion up? Because it’s not a “fancy” place like Baku? Do we know what happened?

Another medical event.
Of course the flight now will be delayed +24hours out of FRA...
Seems to be the usual now.

 

[exLXCXFF]

Last night’s (LAX time) QF94 (VH-ZNC) is cancelled now after it showed delayed on F24. More trouble for the QFi schedule I guess.

 

[Quickstatus]

QF22 now shows up in EF AKL-MEL....

I think the crew clock ran out. QF22 finally arrived 5 hrs late into MEL.
The next day QF8 also diverted via AKL, and arrived into SYD over 7 hrs late. I heard it sat at the start of the runway for 3 hrs waiting to get away with a break in the weather.

Likely the airline preemptively sent relief crew to AKL.
Maybe a combination of factors including crew hours, headwinds etc etc

 

[Quickstatus]

Of course the flight now will be delayed +24hours out of FRA...

Yes, once An ultralong haul route like this diverts, there is nothing up the sleeve re crew hours to do a splash and dash . It will stay there until the crew is rested or they fly in a crew from somewhere who might also have rest hours issues as well.

 

[Quickstatus]

QF22 finally arrived 5 hrs late into MEL.

That was 1Feb. The aircraft was supposed to operate the 1Feb back to DFW as QF21.

It would have been delayed due to the late arrival of QF22 but instead the airline cancelled it due to DFW bad weather.

One would think they would put on a replacement 787 on the next day 2Feb. However the QF21 ordinarily does not operate on a Thursday which was 2Feb. So there was no replacement QF21. It was not an issue of not enough aircraft. The aircraft VH-ZNB remained in MEL from 1Feb until 4Feb and could have done a QF21/22 and arrived back on 4Feb.

Who knows why the airline did not operate a replacement QF21/22 for the cancelled one on 1Feb

It was not further weather because QF operated QF7 on 2Feb as did NZ to IAH and AA34 AKL to DFW on 2Feb