Qantas Delays/Cancellations

Himeno said:
Has it left SYD on time?
How about the ANA and JAL SYD-HND day flights? NH890 has the same scheduled HND time as QF59. JL52 arrives HND around 3 hours before NH and QF.
It could be airport congestion before the domestic side shuts down for the night.
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Most flights are leaving SYD late.

The scheduled arrival time for QF59 is 20:00. So far it still has not landed at HND at or before that time, so ground congestion in HND wouldn’t be the cause (although it might delay it further once the plane is on the ground).
 
I reckon the QF59 tardiness is probably down to a combination of slot restrictions at SYD as well as the Qantas A330 fleet appearing to be somewhat run down in recent times (and not having very much slack to recover from).

For reference, have a look at QF29/30, which has had a straight run of tardiness 7 days in a row now (and it has been running at least 2 hours late each time). It might just about get away on time today as there is a rotation swap so QF38 turns around as QF29 and the late inbound QF30 becomes QF35.
 
QF 29 MEL HKG is delayed for 24 hours today on 20/12/2023 - now scheduled to depart on 21/12/2023 at 1100 AEDST

Update on 21/12/2023 - that flight is now cancelled
 
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Let's just face it, the data shows that Qantas are tardy at best when it comes to delays and any external events such as weather just makes it worse. Most QF international flights in the past week have been delayed.
 
QF291 today took off 101 minutes past the scheduled departure time (i.e. at 14:11 vs 12:30). The reason announced was that paperwork related to some dangerous items in the cargo had gone missing between the terminal and the plane (which was parked at the far end of the SYDi freight terminal section) and had to be redone.

How to you lose paperwork on the tarmac???
 
Paperwork is a common excuse. Last week I flew QF44 from DPS - SYD and the pilot gave as an excuse for the departure delay that they were waiting on paperwork from Warsaw. He then said he had no idea why the paperwork had to come from Warsaw ......
 
funnymummy said:
QF1 still on tarmac at Sydney and ambulance attending
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hope the person is all right - their health is number 1 priority and luckily it was on the ground when it happened... much easier access to medical treatment than after take off

Quick update - QF1 just took off 5 mins ago at 1735
 
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Mrs Pineapple picked a bad day to fly out of BNE with the thunderstorms. Her QF1890 was progressively delayed from 1750 to 2100 and then cancelled, presumably because the crew ran out of hours. Change of gate suggests there was also a technical problem with the Alliance E190.

QF managed the hotel (Rydges in the Valley) and rebooking mostly pretty well, and no drama rebooking to MKY as a next afternoon flight to ROK wasn't going to work. Drama ensued when the MKY BP didn't work at boarding; it seems she'd been rebooked on the right flight, but the wrong day. Luckily there was one spare seat. Bizarre QF IT/comms shenanigans during this time included three emails confirming the hotel layover and text messages today about (more) delays to her old substitute flight to Rocky.

Highlight of the night was possibly QF718 to CNS, which left 1/2 an hour late at 2035 and took the scenic route via Mt Isa to drop off an engineer, arriving CNS 2 1/2 hours late at 0057.
 
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Delayed report, but to add another data point to the mix...

2/12/23
QF87 (SYD>ICN) delayed from 11:40 to 15:08 and eventually took off 16m later. Once we were at cruising altitude, the Captain actually came around and began introducing himself to selected pax in the J cabin (presumably only CL/P1/WP) and providing an explanation for the delay.

Turns out that the operating aircraft (VH-QPC) arrived 55m late from HND and was initially directed to one of the remote bays. It then had to undergo a tyre pressure check for one particular tyre, meaning the aircraft had to remain stationary for 2 hours for pressures to normalise and provide an accurate reading. This pushed us past the magic midday hour, meaning that the remote bay could no longer be used for boarding and they had to wait for a gate to become available. That ended up being Gate 50, so completely the opposite side of T1 to where we would normally have been departing.

We eventually arrived into ICN at 00:00 local time - some 3hrs 35m behind schedule - meaning that all the usual transport options (i.e. AREX and Limousine Buses) had finished for the night. To their credit, Qantas had organised charter Limousine Buses to get people (largely) where they needed to be based on the standard bus routes.

23/12/23
QF88 (ICN>SYD) delayed from 22:10 to 22:25 courtesy of the late arrival of the operating aircraft into ICN. Wheels up some 23m behind schedule, ultimately arriving into SYD approx 18m ahead of schedule. Nice recovery.
 
QF427 returning to gate to get an AC unit checked out. Due to depart 0900.

SYD-MEL

Have been advised we'll take off in 15-20 minutes.
 
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Based on a Facebook post: “
We boarded QF35 from Melbourne to Singapore this morning only to be deplaned and bused back to the departure lounge from the tarmac.

Two hours later no info about a replacement aircraft, new departure time, literally no information 🤷‍♂️. Just sitting in the lounge a couple of champagnes down… Choose your own adventure, what do you think will happen next?

Edit: rescheduled to 6pm, but the catch is that there’s no catering on board. The bag is now stocked with bread rolls and an apple… I feel like this is the final straw for me for Qantas international flights…”
 
QF 730 tomorrow 17 Jan already delayed by 55 minutes. Would I be correct in assuming that because they know 12 hours beforehand this is mechanical?
 

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