Qantas A330-200 cabin refurbishments

[Chrizztofa]

The decal is gone - back to the normal slightly off-black QANTAS titles

Shame, but to be expected.

 

[emirates777]

Any update on this and when will it start?

I am due to Fly QF 36 in January 2027 (Singapore to Melbourne in Y Class) and hoping to be on one of these refurbished jets!

 

[wenglock.mok]

Flew on EBA last night on the QF44 down the back and, to my surprise, it seems to have gotten an upgraded cabin lighting system, which included warm-ish LED lights that gently fade, alongside blue mood lighting. Not sure if there were other colours as those were not used but I seem to recall these domestic A332s only had the basic Airbus white lights installed in their cabins previously.

Unfortunately, the seats seem to be falling apart in these aircraft. The seat back in front of mine, for instance, had a (somewhat) broken iPad holder with a broken hinge on the right, and a tray table with a broken latch and bottom hinge so the bottom half of the table would jut out whenever the passenger in front reclined. I reported this to the cabin crew, who said they would write it up in the cabin maintenance log. Are they not bothering with fixing up cabin defects for these aircraft anymore I wonder (given they were intended to retire anyway)?

 

[OZDUCK]

Flew on EBA last night on the QF44 down the back and, to my surprise, it seems to have gotten an upgraded cabin lighting system, which included warm-ish LED lights that gently fade, alongside blue mood lighting. Not sure if there were other colours as those were not used but I seem to recall these domestic A332s only had the basic Airbus white lights installed in their cabins previously.

Unfortunately, the seats seem to be falling apart in these aircraft. The seat back in front of mine, for instance, had a (somewhat) broken iPad holder with a broken hinge on the right, and a tray table with a broken latch and bottom hinge so the bottom half of the table would jut out whenever the passenger in front reclined. I reported this to the cabin crew, who said they would write it up in the cabin maintenance log. Are they not bothering with fixing up cabin defects for these aircraft anymore I wonder (given they were intended to retire anyway)?

We were on one of these two years ago and tape holding bits of the interior together was pretty obvious. The cabin crew said that they were continuously having breakages. Obviously not much has been, or will be, done.