ALL QF's 330's to get lay flat Business seating - Including Domestic

Flyerqf · Feb 2, 2017

ReLoad said:
With the swap back to a non refurb 8 people that were in J on QF4 today ended up in whY.

There was one fantastic dummy spit from a points upgrade person.

Luckily I was in paid J. In saying that I'd probably have swapped for ORC and a refund

Isnt there more J seats on the non refurb?

ajw373 · Feb 2, 2017

Flyerqf said:
Isnt there more J seats on the non refurb?

Yeah 8 more.

Flyerqf · Feb 11, 2017

EBQ will shortly undertake a test flight after its C check. Will be interesting to see if it's had a crew rest, extra toilets and larger galley put in to enable flying to long haul destinations like HNL HKG PVG PEK.

Ansett · Feb 11, 2017

Flyerqf said:
EBQ will shortly undertake a test flight after its C check. Will be interesting to see if it's had a crew rest, extra toilets and larger galley put in to enable flying to long haul destinations like HNL HKG PVG PEK.

Would there have been time to do such a lot of work?

whughes3 · Feb 11, 2017

There is nothing on the QF website to indicate that any new 332 config is coming. By contrast, the 789 seatmaps are already showing, though they are 9 months away from being introduced.

moa999 · Feb 11, 2017

Ansett said:
Would there have been time to do such a lot of work?

From some other posts on Instagram it was a C4 check which means all seats removed.

If you are going to make config changes it would be the perfect time, albeit I would have thought some confirmation would have leaked or been announced

RickyT84 · Feb 12, 2017

EBQ returned to service today operating QF51 to SIN from BNE with a 2 hour delay. The plane pushed back on time but returned to the gate shortly after :-|

Looking at expertflyer it appears that there was no change to the configuration.

So the wait continues....

moa999 · Feb 13, 2017

Couldn't see any changes either, and no charge to the website maps.

Looks like QPC went into the shed

Awesom Andy · Feb 13, 2017

RickyT84 said:
EBQ returned to service today operating QF51 to SIN from BNE with a 2 hour delay. The plane pushed back on time but returned to the gate shortly after :-|

Looking at expertflyer it appears that there was no change to the configuration.

So the wait continues....

SIN bound flights can take a 2 hour delay with minimal impact to the schedule of the returning flight, so if it's something they can fix within a few hours, they usually just stick with the plane.

RickyT84 · Feb 14, 2017

Awesom Andy said:
SIN bound flights can take a 2 hour delay with minimal impact to the schedule of the returning flight, so if it's something they can fix within a few hours, they usually just stick with the plane.

True. Suppose they can swap the planes in SIN if one flight is running really late if needed.

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Oubline · Feb 16, 2017

Weirdly, my 17 March QF107 SYD-PEK has changed to an A330-300. The My Flights app alerted me, and I've confirmed that the seat map has changed. I thought it was out of range for an A330-300, but saw a couple of weeks ago that the flight was then also operated by an A330-300 with no stops. Will they have to carry a light load?

For what it's worth, the seat map in Y is almost completely empty from what I can see. However, this may be normal 4 weeks out, I'm not sure.

MEL_Traveller · Feb 16, 2017