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On Saturday 2 August 2025, QF94 ex LAX arrived MEL at 0605 hours, 40 minutes early. Instead of operating QF93, A388 VH-OQH took off from MEL empty as QF6038 at 0828, arriving SYD at 0955. It will operate the 1020 hours SYD-SIN QF81 nominally rescheduled as an 1155 hours pushback. This seems...

When one opens the site, it looks terrible. A pointless (apologies for the poor pun) change.

This article would have to be the worst I've read on AFF. Not free!

QF63 on Wednesday 30 July 2025 took off from SYD at 1131 with arrival at gate forecast for about 1733 hours, 73 minutes tardy. Perhaps it was due to late ex-domestic connecting passengers, as A388 VH-OQH had arrived in SYD this morning on QF2 at 0511 hours,. one minute late. Sister plane -OQJ...

Tuesday 29 July 2025 has seen A388 VH-OQD arrive in SYD (ex JNB) at 1442 hours, a creditable three minutes early as QF63. The conveyance then formed the 1450 hours QF1, so the latter was never going to be off blocks punctually. It took off at 1725 with SIN arrival forecast for 2322 local time...

On Monday 28 July 2025, QF6 from FCO to PER with B789 VH_ZNB arrived at gate at 1003 hours, 78 minutes behind schedule. The second sector to SYD changed to -ZNE with this 1030 hours scheduled flight not airborne until 1455 this afternoon Perth time, so SYD arrival is an estimated 2018 hours...

In more on Tuesday 22 July 2025, QF19 (1225 hours SYD-MNL, A333 VH-QPD) was airborne at 1346 so arrival is forecast at gate for 1938 hours, 48 minutes tardy. QF81 from SYD was in the sky at 1227 so SIN arrival for VH_OQL should be about 1832, 102 minutes behind schedule. The MEL-HKG QF29 with...

On Tuesday 22 July 2025, QF29, the scheduled 1020 hours MEL to HKG (A333 VH_QPC) is expected to depart 200 minutes late at 1340 this afternoon. The plane arrived from HKG as QF128 into SYD this morning 90 minutes late at 0753 hours. It is operating empty down to MEL, having taken off from...

On Saturday 19 July 2025, die to a tropical storm in part of Philippines, QF19 (1225 hours SYD-MNL) has been cancelled. However PR flights from MEL and SYD are operating. QF81, the 1020 hours morning SYD-SIN was meant to have A333 VH-QPD but it too has been cancelled. A332 VH-EBB on QF35, the...

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...

The 'SMH'/'The Age' article above plus how it's the end of school holidays gives me the impression that there are few spare seats on competing carriers such as SQ even if QFi wanted to transfer some of its delayed patrons.

QF63, the A380 due out of SYD at 0930 hours on Wednesday 16 July for JNB is expected to depart three hours late at 1230 this afternoon. Another A380 on QF81, the 1020 hours SYD-SIN is for a second consecutive day delayed until a predicted pushback at 1600 hours. Yesterday's took off at 1720...

On Tuesday 15 July 2025, QF81 (A388 VH-OQD), the 1020 hours SYD-SIN is supposedly to depart at 1600 this afternoon. This will mean today's QF82 back down to SYD is also delayed, making it two consecutive days of problems. UPDATE: The expected departure time has blown out to 1725 hours, 425...

With the delay to Monday 14 July's QF29 (MEL-HKG), the aircraft is forming a delayed QF128 (scheduled 1930 hours HKG to SYD, but supposedly altered to depart at 2100 mid evening). In theory, this allows QF30 (HKG to MEL) to depart on time as it's formed by the punctual QF127 ex SYD. 2100 hours...

QF53D was airborne at 1245 hours from BNE with forecast SIN arrival on Monday 14 July at 1810 hours, 1235 minutes late.

On Monday 14 July 2025, QF1, the 1450 hours SYD-SIN-LHR A380 was cancelled. This will presumably mean the Tuesday 15 July QF2 will also get the flick. This may have been at relatively short notice as I don't recall seeing notification of the cancellation earlier today.

No, it departed (i.e. initial pushback) at 1435. 1447 was the time it took off: FR24 shows takeoff times, not gate departure times. Gate arrival is estimated for QF29 in HKG at 2154 hours, 239 minutes late. The delayed QF19 (A332 VH-EBG) took off at 1331 with arrival in MNL suggested as only...

Also on Sunday 13 July 2025, QF19, the 1225 hours SYD-MNL with A332 VH-EBG is expected to depart at 1329 (odd time). This will be due to it having arrived at 1151 hours (19 minutes early) as QF642 domestically from PER, but then having to switch terminals. That QFd to QFi transfers occur with...

Agree. Despite years of experience showing that estimated turnaround times when planes run late into an airport are overly optimistic, the programmers continue to suggest unrealistic departure times.

Given there's notice of the delay, I'd assume the pilots and cabin crew for Sunday 13 July's QF29 will sign on later than originally planned had the flight been expected to be punctual. If I recall correctly, @jb747 (former QFi pilot) once said the duty time limit (at least on the A380s) was 18...