A330 Reliability Issues

[AIRwin]

Yesterday was no picnic either @AIRwin @tomlee1986 ️

And looks like MEL weather is also impacting QF41 departure out of SYD today given aircraft is positioning from MEL

 

[AIRwin]

EBM in AUH is one of the three 332s without wifi - others EBP EBQ.

EBQ is now on its way to QPG

 

[AIRwin]

Looks like QF97 will now be departing 23 hours 55 minutes later than originally scheduled (with an aircraft swap from EBK to EBG)

 

[henrus]

Another day another A330 diversion, this time it's VH-QPI returning to SYD As QF23.

Edit: This looks to be medical related, seem to be scheduled to go again but will put it at least 2 hours late.

 

[samh004]

I’m on QF24 later today so am interested how long my delay will be

 

[henrus]

I’m on QF24 later today so am interested how long my delay will be

It'll take them around 90 mins to turn it around in BKK. At this point the new QF23 still hasn't left SYD however is scheduled to in about an hour putting it into BKK at ~7:30pm so probably a 9pm departure on QF24 ~3 hours late.

 

[samh004]

It'll take them around 90 mins to turn it around in BKK. At this point the new QF23 still hasn't left SYD however is scheduled to in about an hour putting it into BKK at ~7:30pm so probably a 9pm departure on QF24 ~3 hours late.

Presumably they’ll also then try to make up time to Australia on the way back?

 

[Melburnian1]

Presumably they’ll also then try to make up time to Australia on the way back?

From pushback to blocks on, the current QF24 timetable is nine hours and 35 minutes.

The fastest time in the air in the last week has been eight hours and 32 minutes, so if we add 25 minutes for pushback to takeoff and a very small five minutes from landing to arrival at the gate, that means at most the aircraft can make up half an hour. My 'five minutes' for the latter is arbitrary: taxiing often takes much longer, and is worst when due to late running there's no available gate.

Qantas' flight status suggests departure from Sydney for 'the 23' will be 1345 with BKK (probably a landing time rather than gate arrival) at 1925 so at least 195 minutes late, or more than three hours. If you manage to have the blocks removed at 2100 as @henrus suggests, expect an arrival at gate in Sydney no earlier than c.1005 hours tomorrow morning.

 

[henrus]

This is an odd one as they might actually have issues with QPI, was watching SydSqud and there appeared to be no emergency/pan pan call etc nor was any of the comms odd except a slightly heavy landing but that's to be expected. They taxied normally to a gate and weren't followed by emergency services making everyone watching the stream think it was a medical thing.

Now I've just seen someone on reddit saying they were on the flight and and a sensor related to going above 10k ft and are back on the ground with engineers checking it out likely leading to a pressurisation issue.

We'll see if they've got it fixed and it does depart in the next 10 minutes in which case the above timing still works out but if a bigger issue then could be longer delays on the cards.

 

[DC3]

We'll see if they've got it fixed and it does depart in the next 10 minutes in which case the above timing still works out but if a bigger issue then could be longer delays on the cards.

 

[samh004]

Now I've just seen someone on reddit

I must have read the same thing. QF24 pushed back and then stopped. We’re now heading back to the gate as an indicator light on a door is causing issues according to the captain.