Whats the Rego of the plane operating my Flight.

[Ansett]

I sometimes wonder what aircraft will be operating my flight so thought I would start a thread where perhaps, those of you with knowledge may enlighten us.


So lets have a go at this one

QF7 LAX-DFW today

Have a friend flying today.

 

[mannej]

A good place to find QF Rego's after the fact is here

The QANTAS Source - QANTAS Tracker.

 

[Ansett]

A good place to find QF Rego's after the fact is here

The QANTAS Source - QANTAS Tracker.

Thanks mannej I use this often but as you say it is historical.

 

[serfty]

Airlines tend to treat such information as commercial in confidence, so the information is not normally readily accessible.

One way (really only useful on the day of the flight) is to look at Flightaware in conjunction with flightradar24.

Look up your flight number and if flight aware can determine the likely inbound flight it will give you the option to select it and get that flight number. From there you might be able to use flightradar24 to look up the registration of that inbound flight.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I tend to use planefinder iPad app or web.

For example QF7 / QFA7 — Qantas — Plane Finder Data
Allows you to drill down.

 

[shifty]

Yeh, I've wanted something like this as well, to know if you are getting new metal ...more after the fact, but if you know the incoming flight or check the week before flight, this site isn't bad for looking up rego's and getting age etc; http://www.airfleets.net/home/

 

[Mattg]

Of course, in some cases you'll be able to work out the configuration of the aircraft based on the seat map (e.g. old vs refurbished A330s/747s) but it may be difficult to know exactly what aircraft you'll get before the flight.

Some flights follow a predictable routing, making it a bit easier. Of course, flights like QF8 have to arrive in DFW as QF7, so you could track the outbound flight. If flying to/from LHR, you could possibly predict it a few days out as LHR flights route SYD-LHR-MEL-LHR-SYD over a 4-5 day cycle. And QF94 usually turns around as QF93. But this of course would be subject to change.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

It depends on your destination as well eg if you're on DFW wanting to know what rego you'll get on QF8, once QF7 is outbound from SYD you've got your answer.

Compared to say being in SIN flying to MEL when you can't assume the outbound QF35 will operate back as QF36 as the inbound a/c may be flying back to SYD as QF6 or QF82 or to BNE as QF52.

 

[Himeno]

Some airlines have an option on their flight tracking pages to look at the previous flight operated by an aircraft.
There have been times while waiting for AA flights where I've been able to track the incoming aircraft and see delays and changes long before they are announced at the airport.

 

[Mattg]

Sometimes if you search an aircraft's rego on flightaware, it will tell you the next 2-4 scheduled flights. Not sure if it works for QF but it's worked for me overseas.