Qantas A380 reliability issues creeping up again?

[Melburnian1]

QF63/64 today on the forward journey (only from what I can see) is having a 75 minute stop in Perth - see the Qantas delays/cancellations thread elsewhere on AFF.

 

[TeaKozy]

Nah. Part of the master plan to pivot purely to selling wine, overpriced Nintendo Switches, and holidays without the benefits tied to hotel loyalty plans.

And the occasional Brethren charter to retain their AOC.

 

[edwinternet]

QF12 8 September changed from A380 to a 787, unsure why

 

[Melburnian1]

The ageing A380s are running late on Saturday 27 June 2026 with QF7 from SYD to DFW altered to depart 135 minutes late at 1415 hours this afternoon, while QF93 from MEL to Lax (scheduled at 0945) is changed to depart at 1145 hours.

Perhaps additional maintenance is required as in each case, the aircraft arrived SYD and MEL respectively this morning at 0636 hours, both nine minutes early.

Notably, A380 operators like SQ and the largest one, EK largely manage to punctually depart, time after time, but QFi struggles with this basic metric.

 

[Melburnian1]

QF7 SYD-DFW on Monday 29 June is expected to depart 510 minutes late at 2030 hours mid evening. See the Qantas Delays/Cancellations thread.

 

[Melburnian1]

Tonight one QFi A380 flight is suddenly delayed by at least two hours, another one tomorrow has been cancelled and a third offshore is heavily delayed and possibly not departing tonight Australian time.

All on various USA routes: see the Qantas Dealys/Cancellations thread for more.

 

[AIRwin]

QF1 today delayed almost 3 hours due to last minute aircraft swap with OQD operating it even though departure from SYD is 10 minutes before its scheduled arrival as QF64?

 

[Melburnian1]

QF1 today delayed almost 3 hours due to last minute aircraft swap with OQD operating it even though departure from SYD is 10 minutes before its scheduled arrival as QF64?

And on Sunday 5 July, QF1 is cancelled, from SYD to SIN and LHR, while today (Saturday 4) QF93 from MEL to LAX (often not an A380 but it should have been today) is also inoperable.

The woes on the USA A380 QFi routes have spread to the London route.

 

[mrflyby]

And on Sunday 5 July, QF1 is cancelled, from SYD to SIN and LHR, while today (Saturday 4) QF93 from MEL to LAX (often not an A380 but it should have been today) is also inoperable.

The woes on the USA A380 QFi routes have spread to the London route.

Due to the low loads on trips to the US and high fuel costs, I can't imagine they're making a profit on US routes using the A388.
Why on earth would anyone want to go there?

They're using it due to not having enough planes otherwise and LAX being one of their major maintenance baees.
So maybe the QF93 schedule was just because the scheduled plane was due for a maintenance check.
But with OQI in Dresden since March and OQC just did another brethren cult bunch on a charter QF335 to LGW. The schedule doesn't have much flexibility and probably hasn't fully recovered from any delays of the past week.