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It doesn't seem to be limited to any one aircraft either. There seem to be a couple that have been more regular problem children but the overall ageing of the fleet seems to be catching up. Today QPI was 3 hours late out of Melbourne to Tokyo and QPH was two hours late out of Brisbane to...

I've been keeping an eye on the A330 fleet dispatch reliability the last few weeks and there are consistent problems with cancelled flights or delays of five hours +. The fleet is clearly stretched way too thin and their age is catching up with them. Really embarrassing.

Very curious to hear your thoughts on this one JB and AV...

YMMV but I have a soft spot for Skybed II. It's really not that that bad and has such masses of space. Very unlucky to get it both ways in October and I would hedge a strong chance at least one way will change before then.

Conjecture is that when Eithad decided to bring back their A380s that took precedence and the QF birds are playing second fiddle. Only so many staff and hours.

There's 28 A330s to replace. The original plan was that later 787 orders would be the replacements.

Ok twist to my plan. I just discovered rather unbelievably a J award from LAX to MEL via SYD on the whale on Tuesday so I grabbed that and will cancel my flex Y booking for thursday and get a credit. Massive win.

Update: My rollover credits magically appeared this morning on Feb 27th. Balance returning to the planet.....

To try to take heat off the massive profit and punters complaining that they've been gouging. Now they can say "see, great bargains are on sale!"

Just to add to the anecdotes, I booked a reward flight inter Europe with KLM last month. I had no trouble putting in my QF number but selecting a seat proved tricky until online check in. At the airport though my BP printed with Sky priority and I was afforded express queues etc. I had already...

See the post above with the message saying they have a known issue that is being gradually rectified and they state all should look normal by February 24. I won't say anything until after that.

Isn't it a bit odd that if it was some sort of weather related shock that they didn't report this back to the field/ATC in order to alert later departing aircraft?

Interesting. So possible a quite different scenario to the Qatar Dreamliner of a couple of weeks back? Amazing the passengers didn't' realise how close it was to disaster and have a flood of social media etc at the time.

JB, Mr Insight and others: any thoughts on this UA 777 situation out of Hawaii?

More likely lost all benefits when the AFL signed with Virgin...