Qantas A380 at Gatwick

[Spacetravel]

Sorry to hear. It was delayed 3.5hrs leaving LGW and made up some time and scheduled to arrive back in SYD approx 2.5hrs late - It made up approx 1hr somewhere in that journey.

Usually the A380 coming back from LHR arrive back in Sydney at 0540hrs. This leaves them about 12hrs to operate QF11 or 9hrs to operate QF1
This QF332 was scheduled to arrive back at 1740hrs, 5 minutes after the usual departure time for the usual QF11 which necessitated one off scheduled departure of 2035hrs for the 1st May QF11 . A turn around time of just under 3hrs has been done before for an A380.

I wonder what happened at LGW?
Is QF obligated to wait for all the passengers of a charter if one/some are late?

Interesting. Due to the late arrival into LAX on QF11, we missed the connecting flight and QF has put us in a hotel tonight and rebooked on a DL flight tomorrow.

Looks like I will have to submit an ORC for the original points and status credits due.

Obviously these things happen with air travel but I wonder what was the net gain of the charter now having to deal with an a380 amount of disrupted passengers. It wasn't cancelled so not everyone was disrupted but just managing upset passengers due to the delay and rebooking missed connections etc.

 

[Quickstatus]

net gain of the charter

But the regular service is not necessarily any more on time. Cue the "please explain why we should not take action kind of letter" that LHR management gave to Qantas regarding its repeated tardy arrivals into LHR a few years back.

At one stage the A380 schedule had a turn around time of 2:30hrs in MEL.. they have turned around in less than 3hrs before.

Re the net benefit of chartering...
The client doing these charters are a long term client of the airline and is not a one off flash in the pan client. The airline likely thinks it worth it given that mostly its not a change in timing but just a change in flight number. What is the net effect on the random or semi-random (frequent flyer) passenger?. That assumes the airline actually cares about the individual passenger random or semirandom. It has existing measures in place to deal with delays and cancellations - one which it to leave the passenger to pick up the pieces themselves.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Interesting. Due to the late arrival into LAX on QF11, we missed the connecting flight and QF has put us in a hotel tonight and rebooked on a DL flight tomorrow.

Looks like I will have to submit an ORC for the original points and status credits due.

Obviously these things happen with air travel but I wonder what was the net gain of the charter now having to deal with an a380 amount of disrupted passengers. It wasn't cancelled so not everyone was disrupted but just managing upset passengers due to the delay and rebooking missed connections etc.

Make sure you sort out where to credit your DL status credits before you check in.

I’m not very familiar with Skyteam so can’t offer advice on where.

Look at the upside: it’s like DSC split across two carriers!

 

[GSPVX]

In this case its speculated that they went to LGW to more easily get down to Southampton to get on the cruise.

It’s much easier to get to Southampton from LHR than LGW, which adds 25 miles (40km)

 

[VPS]

It’s much easier to get to Southampton from LHR than LGW, which adds 25 miles (40km)

and welcome to AFF

 

[Flashback]

It’s much easier to get to Southampton from LHR than LGW, which adds 25 miles (40km)

Depends on traffic, at current time of the day it's much of a muchness timewise!

 

[offshore171]

Wonder if any passengers panicked at the "Welcome to Luton" sign?

 

[kelvedon]

It’s much easier to get to Southampton from LHR than LGW, which adds 25 miles (40km)

Landing fees at LGW cheaper.…or slot availability?

 

[Quickstatus]

It’s much easier to get to Southampton from LHR than LGW, which adds 25 miles (40km)

Welcome to AFF

Marginal in terms of time.
Bear in mind this is one group. Possibly easier to transport by a fleet of buses?.

slot availability

331 arrived into LGWat the usual morning slot arrival time for LHR
But 332 departed LGW a day later at a time which not their usual.

 

[Flashback]

Landing fees at LGW cheaper.…or slot availability?

Both most likely.

 

[AIRwin]

I will be affected by this, currently due to fly out on QF11 today scheduled at 8:35PM on VH-OQI. Looks like it was delayed leaving SIN as QF332 and is now running late causing a flow on delay to QF11 which is now scheduled to depart at 10:30PM. If it slips another 30 minutes due to the curfew we won't be going anywhere today.

Similarly QF1 tonight is delayed (due to late arrival of inbound QF2) and may run the risk of missing the curfew

 

[RSD]

Similarly QF1 tonight is delayed (due to late arrival of inbound QF2) and may run the risk of missing the curfew

Oh to have a spare A380 eh Mr Alan Joyce?

 

[Quickstatus]

Oh to have a spare A380

At one point the airline crowed about having spare aircraft during peak travel periods. Now at non peak travel periods the "spare" aircraft does not exist.