Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

[kpro]

The 81/82 is only scheduled for one day a week (82 on Thursdays and 81 on Fridays), when the AY A330 is in SIN for its weekly maintenance cycle.

There was a QF82 on Saturday and Sunday in the last 7 days, as well as a QF81 on Sunday.

What's interesting from FR24 is that QF291 on the 28th (Sunday) was assigned to be VH-EBR, and then the flight number changed to QF81.

 

[OATEK]

There was a QF82 on Saturday and Sunday in the last 7 days, as well as a QF81 on Sunday.

What's interesting from FR24 is that QF291 on the 28th (Sunday) was assigned to be VH-EBR, and then the flight number changed to QF81.

I expect that QF prefer to have their own metal carry the usual QF flight number, differentiating from that allocated to the AY wet lease flights. There was quite a focus when the original announcement of the AY flights was made that the QF81/821 rotation would be dropped when QF291/292 were operating. While this may have led to a small increase in capacity to SIN, including some PE seats, the real capacity increase came from swapping the QF A330s toother routes.

 

[wenglock.mok]

There was a QF82 on Saturday and Sunday in the last 7 days, as well as a QF81 on Sunday.

What's interesting from FR24 is that QF291 on the 28th (Sunday) was assigned to be VH-EBR, and then the flight number changed to QF81.

Those two QF82s and one QF81 over the weekend were likely last minute operational swaps to cover OH-LTR, which was stuck in SIN. I don't think they were actually scheduled to be services operated by QF as the timetable only indicates QF81 operating on Fridays and QF82 operating on Thursdays up to October 2024.

 

[kpro]

I never said they were scheduled in my original post though, just that they were "intermittently replacing these services with QF metal A332's as QF81/QF82."

 

[AIRwin]

OH-LTT is now operating QF292 to SYD after arriving in SIN from HEL

OH-LTT has now swapped to operate BKK after doing SIN shuttles the last few days

 

[gethsemene]

Hmm, well hopefully they've changed it's operational down time day from Thursday as I'm meant to be on QF295 in J on that day...

 

[wenglock.mok]

Hmm, well hopefully they've changed it's operational down time day from Thursday as I'm meant to be on QF295 in J on that day...

The Thursday downtime is only for the SIN route, QF295/296 SYD-BKK-SYD appears to operate daily.

I guess they will rotate whichever aircraft requires the 24 hour downtime through SIN as necessary as they can swap them here in SYD.