QF1 cancelled because A380 carried coronavirus passenger in F

[liamg]

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I wonder if there are issues for other passengers who were on board?

 

[defurax]

I'm surprised they couldn't use another A380.
Isn't QF35/36 downgrade freeing up a 380?

Qantas cancels flight to London

Qantas has cancelled a flight to London overnight after it emerged that a passenger with coronavirus recently travelled on the plane.

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[JinbaIttai]

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I don't have a subscription either, but the anti-paywall extension for Firefox works a treat:

Qantas cancelled its Wednesday afternoon service from Sydney to London via Singapore to fully clean the A380 aircraft used following confirmation it carried a first class passenger with coronavirus.
Another Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney, using an A330 was also identified by NSW Health as transporting a man who tested positive for coronavirus.

It is understood cabin crew who had direct contact with the passengers on each flight have been placed into self-isolation.

 

[Kangol]

Funny they mention the cabin.
No other report for any other passenger reported to have the virus on another airline mentioned it.
Probably not news worthy if they were in Y

 

[Reds2011]

If this is the precedent they are going to set there's a lot of pain ahead. I may or may not be bitter having been booked on QF2 ex SIN on Friday night, which this aircraft would have operated....

 

[Gold Member]

Wow, I was on the morning MEL-LST flight that day. Later that day returning SYD-MEL I was sat next to a Chinese woman who didn’t seem healthy. I asked if could move as a precaution but full flight. Ya never know...

 

[Princess Fiona]

Funny they mention the cabin.
No other report for any other passenger reported to have the virus on another airline mentioned it.
Probably not news worthy if they were in Y

They didn’t mention the cabin AFIK. Can’t see the pay walled version but the one I saw at 0700 this morning said the pax was in row 5.
I snorted my Almond latte and posted it on my Facebook group. Was quite an entertaining morning.
Did wonder if perhaps a digit was missing after the 5

EDIT
I wonder if a staffer from Fox is on the group

 

[Mark1966]

One of the knock on effects seems to be a 13 hour layover in SIN for QF2 coming back tonight (5 March LHR time) - QF2 departing LHR 4 March - why 13 hour layover in SIN?

 

[RooFlyer]

Wow, I was on the morning MEL-LST flight that day.

Virgin? From the same story in the Oz:

 

[Kangol]

They didn’t mention the cabin AFIK. Can’t see the pay walled version but the one I saw at 0700 this morning said the pax was in row 5.
I snorted my Almond latte and posted it on my Facebook group. Was quite an entertaining morning.
Did wonder if perhaps a digit was missing after the 5

EDIT
I wonder if a staffer from Fox is on the group

It's in post #3

 

[Max Samuels]

A total overreaction in my opinion.... to "clean the cabin properly".... lord oh lordy lord... a can of Glen 20 does the trick

 

[ChrisGibbs]

The aircraft was VH-OQC - a 28 Feb departure from SIN arriving into SYD on 29 Feb. I trust the Cabin crew are well and their needs are being taken care of. The passenger in question was in F in Row 5. I was on the same flight and still feeling fine and now on my way up to BKK this morning on QF23. There was nothing abnormal about the flight. Typically if there is a medical issue the crew is aware of on arriving into SYD passengers would be requested to remain with their seatbelts fastened until the medical team had boarded and assessed the passenger. From memory the inbound QF2 becomes the outbound QF11 later in the morning so I’m presuming the aircraft would have done to/from LAX and To/from LHR before being grounded.

 

[Princess Fiona]

The aircraft was VH-OQC - a 28 Feb departure from SIN arriving into SYD on 29 Feb. I trust the Cabin crew are well and their needs are being taken care of. The passenger in question was in F in Row 5. I was on the same flight and still feeling fine and now on my way up to BKK this morning on QF23. There was nothing abnormal about the flight. Typically if there is a medical issue the crew is aware of on arriving into SYD passengers would be requested to remain with their seatbelts fastened until the medical team
had boarded and assessed the passenger. From memory the inbound QF2 becomes the outbound QF11 later in the morning so I’m presuming the aircraft would have done to/from LAX and To/from LHR before being grounded.

This contradicts the NSW Heath Website information.
QF2 Flight departing 27th, arriving 28th

 

[dajop]

The aircraft was VH-OQC - a 28 Feb departure from SIN arriving into SYD on 29 Feb.

Can't have been VH-OQC, as yesterday afternoon when QF1 was cancelled that was travelling through SIN, coming back from LHR.

If , as per Princess Fiona's post, it was a 28 February arrival into SYD, which would make it VH-OQK. After landing in SYD, it seems to have done 2 returns to DFW, so since the passenger left the seat, that would mean 5 "superficial" cleans, and up to 4 passengers in the same seat.

 

[ChrisGibbs]

 

[dajop]

Yes, “returned from Singapore on 28 February” means QF2 departing SIN dated 27 February. As you will see on the afternoon that QF1 out of SYD was cancelled, VH-OQC was travelling into SIN from LHR. It would have never been scheduled to operate QF1 on 4 Mar.

 

[ChrisGibbs]

I stand corrected....

 

[dajop]

I stand corrected....

Yeh, those pesky short overnight flights that not only are a pain in the backside to travel on, but confuse things when it comes to dates.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Are QF enhancing their cleaning / sanitising of aircraft at this time given you may well not know what is being carried??

 

[AIRwin]

Noticed QF has published a list of cases on their flights:

Coronavirus travel update | Qantas

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Of the 4 flights to date, 3 had arrived from SIN in the space of 4 days...