Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Solution - travel on CX or an airline (not QF) that has sufficient fleet to actually operate their timetable and be able to recover if anything goes unserviceable. Reading this thread should be enough to convince any one that QF are habitually unreliable.

It's paradoxical that into and out of Australia, 'home base' airline QFi is generally less reliable and punctual than foreign-headquartered airlines such as CX, EK, PR, QR, SQ and UA to name a few.

 

[tomlee1986]

On Saturday 13 September, A333 VH_QPF arrived ex HKG in MEL as QF30 at 1401 hours, 396 minutes late. It is returning to HKG as QF29, but expected pushback has been further delayed from the unrealistic 1515 hours to 1540.

QF29 just pushed back at 1550 - took off at 1601, ETA is 2300 and will form tonight’s 128 SYD flight, ETD out of HKG is unlikely at 2345!!!

 

[flyingfan]

or even a CX flight if there's space? (if CX would even support / take some passengers from QF anyway?)

I’d be very surprised to see this offered

 

[tomlee1986]

Return QF128 HKG SYD on 13/09 - departed at 0042 on 14/09 instead of 1930 the night before and now will arrive at 1123 instead of 0645