A330 Reliability Issues

Heard that QF36 operated by VH-EBA diverted to ADL this morning
Interesting flight path. It has descended from F350 early in the flight, and then maintained F310 for the vast majority of the remainder. It's generally not hard to get a climb in that part of the world, so that would imply that they didn't want it. It's not an emergency, as they had a number of alternatives, and have seemingly held until the end of the curfew (by my maths) at Adelaide.
 
Interesting flight path. It has descended from F350 early in the flight, and then maintained F310 for the vast majority of the remainder. It's generally not hard to get a climb in that part of the world, so that would imply that they didn't want it. It's not an emergency, as they had a number of alternatives, and have seemingly held until the end of the curfew (by my maths) at Adelaide.
Appreciate it's all speculation, but given what you're seeing there, can you think of any particular explanation for that? If there's a technical issue that wasn't serious enough to consider an earlier alternative, my uninformed brain wonders why you couldn't just carry on to MEL given it's not much further along?
 
Am I correct in assuming that the lower flight level results in an increased fuel burn and thus unable to reach Melbourne?
 
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According to Melbourne's Jacquie Felgate Instagram post from a passenger, "cabin pressuriser broke midflight".
I will leave this to the experts to evaluate.
I'm no expert on the topic, but if the cabin pressurisation system broke, then I'd imagine they'd be needing to descend to an altitude well below 31K feet and would be diverting somewhere long before ADL...?
 

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