Qantas Delays/Cancellations

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Qantas will supsend HKG services mid week this week due to airport closure from Typhoon.
Please contact Qantas for rescheduling.
I actually wonder why the rescheduling period does no include 23rd and 24th? Have they been cancelled?
 
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Qantas will supsend HKG services mid week this week due to airport closure from Typhoon.
Please contact Qantas for rescheduling.
I actually wonder why the rescheduling period does no include 23rd and 24th? Have they been cancelled?
Today, 23rd September, is super sunny, and nice. So any flight in and out today should be fine (might require bit of flying around closer to the Philippines). Tomorrow, 24rd Sept, different story!

Interestingly, locally here in HKG, the closure of the HKG airport for 36 hours is not yet confirmed - so QF is ahead of the game.
 
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Qantas will supsend HKG services mid week this week due to airport closure from Typhoon.
Please contact Qantas for rescheduling.
I actually wonder why the rescheduling period does no include 23rd and 24th? Have they been cancelled?
thanks for the information... and tbh I am shocked at 1 thing... I am proud Qantas is doing this... and the reason I am shock is this below from Cathay Pacific... HK is their home base, but they did not announce the airport operation is impacted... in fact QF is the FIRST to do it!

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... I am proud Qantas is doing this... and the reason I am shock is this below from Cathay Pacific... HK is their home base, but they did not announce the airport operation is impacted... in fact QF is the FIRST to do it!
Qantas are making the assumption whilst CX await instructions from Beijing. Not really surprising, especially as QF have issues servicing HKG in a timely manner when there isn’t a super typhoon.
 
Qantas are making the assumption whilst CX await instructions from Beijing. Not really surprising, especially as QF have issues servicing HKG in a timely manner when there isn’t a super typhoon.
Sadly Beijing is CX master - but tbh I am glad QF is announcing HKIA closure earlier than others!!
 
Today, 23rd September, is super sunny, and nice. So any flight in and out today should be fine (might require bit of flying around closer to the Philippines). Tomorrow, 24rd Sept, different story!

Interestingly, locally here in HKG, the closure of the HKG airport for 36 hours is not yet confirmed - so QF is ahead of the game.
Yes it is. I would have appealed anyone in Hong Kong to try fly out of the city today
Sadly Beijing is CX master - but tbh I am glad QF is announcing HKIA closure earlier than others!!
Qantas has already cancelled all departures to HKG on 23 & 24 September, according to flight updates.
 
Yes it is. I would have appealed anyone in Hong Kong to try fly out of the city today

Qantas has already cancelled all departures to HKG on 23 & 24 September, according to flight updates.
What I was trying to say is that in the original Qantas post - Qantas is saying HK airport operations for the airport itself is closed for 36 hours, but CX as home base is so slow!!
 
What I was trying to say is that in the original Qantas post - Qantas is saying HK airport operations for the airport itself is closed for 36 hours, but CX as home base is so slow!!
Qantas assumes that HKIA is closed for 36 hours but as of now (1543 HKT), HKIA has NOT officially made any such announcement to public. All announcements are still “may close” or “is considering”
 
Qantas assumes that HKIA is closed for 36 hours but as of now (1543 HKT), HKIA has NOT officially made any such announcement to public. All announcements are still “may close” or “is considering”
Qantas have now changed their page to say flights will be impacted between those times, rather than the airport being closed. I think they may have jumped the gun a bit initially. Cathay have now started cancelling flights.
 
QF21 MEL DFW took off @1617 -72 mins late from 1505 on 24/09 and now ETA is 43 mins late @1643 instead of 1600 on ZND (the yam dreaming aboriginal livery)
 
Yesterdays flights Brisbane to Longreach and return were delayed by one hour.
No engineering fault, waiting on a delayed Sydney/Brisbane flight for Tanya Kernaghan,
performing at the Winton Outback Festival this weekend.

Stuffed a few pax around including myself with 1 hour connections missed.
The unscreened pax scenic bus ride to the Virgin end of the Brisbane Terminal is another add on.
 
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Yesterdays flights Brisbane to Longreach and return were delayed by one hour.
No engineering fault, waiting on a delayed Sydney/Brisbane flight for Tanya Kernaghan,
performing at the Winton Outback Festival this weekend.

Stuffed a few pax around including myself with 1 hour connections missed.
The unscreened pax scenic bus ride to the Virgin end of the Brisbane Terminal is another add on.
Fortunately BKQ-LRE was unaffected? 😉
 
QF 29 on 27/09 was delayed to 28/09 as QF29D to HKG from MEL, and today’s service is delayed to 1505!!

This already impacted the 128 HKG SYD service to 1845 tonight (28/09) and arriving at 0600 on Monday morning

Also QF127 SYD HKG yesterday also severely delayed from 1020 to 1800 departure, and arrived at 0113 on 28/09/2025, and the return as QF 30 to MEL is likely to be the delayed QF 29 today on 28/09 on QPD!

@Melburnian1

Late Addition- QF127 had a 69 min delay - took off at 1129 instead of 1020 on QPB - hopefully will make up time in air
 
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