Aircraft scheduled for a particular flight

[MatF]

Hi guys,

My sister and her hubby are off to LAX on Thursday. I was wondering if there's a way to see which particular aircraft is currently scheduled to operate QF11 on that day (26/4)??
Just curious if it might be Nancy Bird


Cheers,
Mat.

 

[spentan]

Hi guys,

My sister and her hubby are off to LAX on Thursday. I was wondering if there's a way to see which particular aircraft is currently scheduled to operate QF11 on that day (26/4)??
Just curious if it might be Nancy Bird


Cheers,
Mat.

hmm, I'm also interested to know, I do know that you can verify that it is an a388 from the Qantas Timetable page, but dunno how to identify specifically which A388.

 

[Austman]

The Nancy Bird-Walton is scheduled to re-enter service on April 28, as QF127 to Hong Kong, and bring Qantas's A380 fleet to 12

Read more: Engine explosion Qantas A380 returns to Australia

Note: Nancy-Bird Walton was not my typo.
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[alieninperth]

I don't believe that they publish the aircraft to operate a route until the day of the flight, supposedly due to security issues.

 

[MatF]

Thanks guys, it looks like it's not going to LAX on the 26th then

 

[Boris spatsky]

I don't think Flight Scheduling could ever hope to publish the exact aircraft tail number for all flights. QF has over 8000 flights per week (correct me if i am wrong) - what benefit would it be to publish the tail numbers? It would also open them up to people whinging when the tail number got swapped due to an unserviceability or the like.

 

[markis10]

I don't think Flight Scheduling could ever hope to publish the exact aircraft tail number for all flights. QF has over 8000 flights per week (correct me if i am wrong) - what benefit would it be to publish the tail numbers? It would also open them up to people whinging when the tail number got swapped due to an unserviceability or the like.

Publish, no, but they do plan weeks/ months out and have a good idea.

 

[serfty]

Publish, no, but they do plan weeks/ months out and have a good idea.

... a very good idea!

Generally, equipment specific schedules are available internally some 90 days out.

Like many such things these do often change.

Posted on a wing and a prayer ...

 

[VHOEJ]

The airline allocates specific aircraft about 3 months out but it changes so often in the last couple of weeks, including the day of departure. All the fog over Sydney put planes all out of sequence so their were plenty of changes. No airline will publicise this information.

But no, Nancy Bird's first flight is on Saturday to Honkers..........

 

[MatF]

Heh, flightaware seems to be suggesting it was sub'd for a B744 anyway

FlightAware > Qantas Airways (QF) #11 > 26/04/2012 > YSSY-KLAX Flight Tracker

 

[markis10]

Heh, flightaware seems to be suggesting it was sub'd for a B744 anyway

FlightAware > Qantas Airways (QF) #11 > 26/04/2012 > YSSY-KLAX Flight Tracker

Yep, OJF

• Airline: Qantas
  
• Flight: QF11
  
• From: Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD)
  
• To: Los Angeles Los Angeles (LAX)
  
• Aircraft: Boeing 747-438 (B744)
  
• Reg: VH-OJF
  
• Hex: 7C4829
  
• Altitude: 7025 ft (2141 m)
  
• Speed: 342 kt (633 km/h, 394 mph)
  
• Track: 87°
  
• Squawk: 1547
  
• Pos: -34.1606 / 151.3996
  
• Radar: YSSY5