Multiple flights: same time, same destination

[Scarlett]

Interesting that QF have decided to fly two aircraft DRW-CNS within five minutes of each other today:



We have QF1853 at 1330 and then QF1889 at 1335. Both are E190s. I’m guessing there was some sort of time change for one of them to end up with that kind of proximity in scheduling.



They even taxied consecutively!

 

[Mattg]

You see this sometimes on airlines that have heavily banked networks but only one type of aircraft. E.g. Copa Airlines relies on flights coming in at the same few times of day to optimise onward connections, but it can’t just send a widebody to the larger markets as it doesn’t have any, so it sends two 737s within 5 minutes of each other.

I once flew GRU-MVD on LATAM. The only flights that LATAM scheduled on the route that day were at 8am and 8.05am - and nothing else. Both A320s. That one was a bit of a head-scratcher.

 

[Saab34]

Looks like the first one was a 7am departure but was delayed and then retimed. Looks like a FR24 bug.

Needless to say a nice 8 hour ish delay, well done Alliance!

Jetstar previously ran the MEL-CNS 6am departure alongside the similar timed MEL-CNS ‘International’ Leg. I note they have dropped one and only run the Bali continuation now.

 

[trisreed]

I guess it's not too dissimilar to the quarter hour 15, :30, :45, :00) shuttles between MEL and SYD, with a bit of a delay thrown in. Last time I took one, the previous flight 15) took off directly after mine 30). Earlier in the evening, QF even has them every ten minutes!

 

[SJF211]

Needless to say a nice 8 hour ish delay, well done Alliance!

Alliance has had a shocking week out of Darwin. Source Monday mine and my friends seperate arvo flights both cancelled flight, rebooked to the next morning, then delayed a further 7 hours and 4 hours respectively.


As for the FR24 bug I assume it’s to do with having a different call sign and that confusing flight radar. For most flights that call as “QLK,” (Q-Link), as opposed to QFA, it loads the scheduled QF/QFA flight and then I assume when the flight plan is submitted it shows up as a seperate QLK flight, I’d assume because the callsigns are different. As it takes the estimated departure time from the flight plan as the scheduled time it does not show as delayed as it assumes the new time is the correct time. Hence why the delayed flights don’t show as delayed.

For example QF2576 and QLK576D and QF2563 and QLK563D