Qantas boosts international capacity, wet lease Finnair aircraft

[Pushka]

And it appears the wet lease is over
OH-LTM flew SYD-BKK-HEL as AY8902/8904 on 29-Mar-2026 and re-entered AY service on 2-Apr
OH-LTS flew SYD-HKG as AY8906 on 31-Mar-2026 and has presumably gone to maintenance.

The two dry lease aircraft painted in QF colours VH-QPK/QPL remain.

Also no movement on OH-LTN from DXB, The rumoured QF purchase.

We had Qantas plane on 31 March from Bangkok instead of the Finnair plane we had on way over.

 

[moa999]

Also no movement on OH-LTN from DXB, The rumoured QF purchase.

The possible future QF purchase flew back AUH-HEL last Friday, minus AY titles.

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[moa999]

OH-LTN seemingly had a HEL-HEL test flight on Tue.

 

[Greg555]

Let's not forget why we are enduring 17 year old Qantas wet lease A333's.... Appalling fleet management decisions largely driven by former executive bonus metrics, and eleven years after the A350 flew it's first commercial flight Qantas has.....zero on it's fleet. What a continuing embarrassment this airline is.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Let's not forget why we are enduring 17 year old Qantas wet lease A333's.... Appalling fleet management decisions largely driven by former executive bonus metrics, and eleven years after the A350 flew it's first commercial flight Qantas has.....zero on it's fleet. What a continuing embarrassment this airline is.

Agree that maintaining the schedule would probably be easier if planes were newer.

But aside from that, the inside, where it perhaps counts the most, is still a current and competitive product.

 

[moa999]

Appalling fleet management decisions largely driven by former executive bonus metrics, and eleven years after the A350 flew it's first commercial flight Qantas has.....zero on it's fleet.

Not sure how you can blame Qantas management for Airbus's delays with the 35KULR.

And imagine how much longer we would be waiting if QF had picked the 777X platform for Sunrise.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Let's not forget why we are enduring 17 year old Qantas wet lease A333's.... Appalling fleet management decisions largely driven by former executive bonus metrics, and eleven years after the A350 flew it's first commercial flight Qantas has.....zero on it's fleet. What a continuing embarrassment this airline is.

Yet doing very well.