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Monday 12 January 2026 sees TR13, the evening scheduled 2005 hours SYD up to SIN with B789 9V-OJH having become airborne at 2154 hours with gate arrival on Tuesday 13 estimated as 0232 hours, 82 late.

A388 VH-OQH that arrived in SYD as QF12 at 1905 hours on Monday 12 January instead of the timetabled 0725 hours is forming QF11, the 1745 hours back to LAX. This was to depart at 2130 but that's been put back to a 2200 hours forecast. For the sake of passengers (both ways!), let's hope it gets...

On Monday 12 January 2026, SQ208, the 1925 hours MEL-SIN (A359 9M-SMD) took off at 2037 hours so Tuesday 13 arrival should be at 0100 local time, 45 minutes late. SQ207 had arrived in MEL at 1909 hours, 59 late, so a quick turnaround. I always wonder in such circumstances how well an aircraft...

Even though it's winter in UK and Europe and hence for those locations 'low season', not all passengers would be heading there. International air travel into and out of Australia sees well loaded aircraft for most airlines, so if an A380 doesn't operate how does an airline easily find c.450...

It's explained in a bit more detail in the 'Qantas Delays/Cancellations' thread on AFF, but this morning's QF12 A380 arrival will be about 700 minutes late - almost 12 hours late - arriving at its Sydney gate at around 1900 this evening. Tomorrow's arrival is expected to be almost two and a...

Not only is the 10 January LAX-departing QF12 delayed by about 697 minutes into SYD tonight (Monday 12 January) but the scheduled 11 January QF12 departure from LAX at 2125 hours is forecast to depart at 2345, 140 minutes late. QFi is claiming it will land at 0945 hours tomorrow in Sydney, so...

Also on Monday 12 January 2026, QF63, the 0930 hours SYD-JNB (A388 VH-OQB) did not take off until 1106 hours. Expected gate arrival is 1546, 46 late. 'The 63', its opposite number should arrive this afternoon in SYD at about 1548 hours, 78 minutes tardy. B789 VH-ZNN arrived AKL (ex SYD) as the...

The overnight delayed QF12 took off from LAX with A388 VH-OQH at 1005 hours on Sunday 11 January, with gate arrival in SYD on Monday 12 estimated as 1902 hours, 697 minutes late. Sister -OQB arrived SYD this morning at 0746 hours, 51 minutes late as QF8 from distant DFW. Another A380, -OQK is...

On Saturday 10 January, QR908, the 2040 hours DOH-SYD, did not take off until 2213 hours. Sunday 11 sees gate arrival at about 1945 hours, 55 late for A388 A7-APH. Many aircraft arriving are in a holding pattern.

If I may venture briefly off topic (as thread is about QFi's A380s), a problem with the A330s is that QFi is operating to too many destinations, with some not daily. I assume maintenance ability (and parts' ready availability) at these 'outstations' varies from excellent to only passable when...

@vhojm 's post was prescient. On Sunday 11 January 2026, A388 VH-OQK as QF63 SYD-JNB (the 0930 hours) was still taxiing at 1113 AEDT.

On Sunday 11 January 2026, QF79, the 0925 hours MEL-NRT (A333 VH-QPE) is estimated to shortly depart 65 minutes late at 1030 hours. The 0930 hours SYD-JNB (QF63, A388 VH-OQK) is 'identical' in that its pushback should be at 1035, also 65 late. UPDATE: QF63 took off at 1120 hours with gate...

QF7 on Saturday 10 January from SYD to DFW was changed again, being expected to depart at 2010. As at 2020, it hadn't become airborne. UPDATE: A388 VH-OQB took off at 2046 hours. FR24 claims arrival at gate becomes 2145, 555 minutes late. This seems a big overestimate. I've noticed recently...

You have a choice of airlines to most major USA destinations. The mainland-based North American airlines are not perfect - they have their share of delays - but generally into and out of Oz cancel less often than QFi. Hawaiian and Fiji's airlines are other alternatives.

Are these A380s being worked too intensively, as you opined above? We'd need a LAME or similar to answer.

You may well be correct, but my mind was more focused how introducing JNB as an A380 has almost certainly increased the median utilisation per week or month of the QFi A380s. Hence, less available downtime for maintenance or repairs. Though many parts get replaced in line with manufacturer's...

Thanks. QF7 is further delayed: expected to depart SYD at 1845 AEDT. At 1730 AEDT the temperature at SYD (airport) was 41.4: by 1755 hours, it had dropped at Sydney's Observatory Hill (a different monitoring location) by 4.1 degrees.

it would be facile to suggest the relatively small number of competitors who operate A380s don't have problems from time to time, but at least to and from Australia despite being thousands of kilometres from their bases, EK, OZ, QR and SQ with their A380s aren't nearly as unpunctual as QFi. I...

Also on Saturday 10 January, after arriving late as QF94 (see above), A388 VH-OQH as the 1200 'high noon' MEL-LAX QF93 took off at 1402 hours (much later than the unrealistic, hoped for 1245) with same day gate arrival probable at 0849 hours, 84 minutes behind schedule.

Saturday 10 January 2026's QF7 (SYD-DFW) is expected to be 235 minutes late in departing at 1800 hours tonight.