Another A330 delay with VH-QPD on Thursday 17 July taking off from SYD at 2312 hours as QF522 to BNE, so almost got caught out by the Sydney curfew. It arrived BNE on Friday 18 at 0028 (73 late) and then in the morning operated an empty QF6005 from BNE back down to SYD, with this proposed 0700 hours flight taking off at 0836 for gate arrival at 0953 hours.
It was then rostered to form what could never be a punctual QF127, the 1020 hours SYD-HKG that was airborne at 1201 with gate arrival forecast for 1908 tonight, 68 late.
'The 59' from MEL to Japan's NRT has sister aircraft -QPE with this 1105 hours timetabled departure taking off at 1315 this afternoon: gate arrival is likely at about 2140 hours, 90 late.
A332 VH-EBM on QF67, the 0905 hours morning SYD-BLR was not pointing skywards until 1205 hours, so the suggested 1905 hours arrival will be 150 minutes behind the timetable.
QF7, the 1025 hours B789 from SYD up and across to DFW was cancelled today.