Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[tomlee1986]

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Self explanatory. Must be a medical diversion.

Hope the passenger has a full recovery

 

[exLXCXFF]

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Self explanatory. Must be a medical diversion.

Wouldn’t Darwin be quicker and equally able to handle an A380? (unless people have to deplane and there is only one Xray machine for intl departures…)

 

[ABC1]

Although Darwin is a lot closer and it's sure to be able to take an A380 as it was designated to be an emergency diversion runway for the space shuttle. Would have a plenty capable runway then.

And don’t forget QF operated through Darwin with the A380 during the pandemic and restrictions in SIN.

 

[jb747]

It has little to nothing to do with the runway. When you need a medical diversion, there's discussion with Medlink about the actual medical situation. They will then recommend the place they'd like the person taken. As long as that's acceptable from an aviation perspective (i.e. weather), then that's where you go. I've actually overflown Darwin with one very ill person, because the recommendation was to go to Adelaide. We spoke to the RFDS as we were over the top, and they commented that it was the correct call, as they would have had to put him into one of their aircraft and head to one of the southern cities.

 

[Melburnian1]

It has little to nothing to do with the runway. When you need a medical diversion, there's discussion with Medlink about the actual medical situation. They will then recommend the place they'd like the person taken. As long as that's acceptable from an aviation perspective (i.e. weather), then that's where you go. I've actually overflown Darwin with one very ill person, because the recommendation was to go to Adelaide. We spoke to the RFDS as we were over the top, and they commented that it was the correct call, as they would have had to put him into one of their aircraft and head to one of the southern cities.

Presumably because of the greater surgical and medical expertise available in Adelaide (and today's, Perth) than Darwin. The latter has a population of fewer than 155,000 so it's smaller than some Melbourne and Sydney local government municipalities.

 

[Melburnian1]

A333 VH-QPL on the Tuesday 2 December 1920 hours overnight MNL to SYD (QF20) took off at 2026, so it was already a little late, but then diverted to BNE. Looks like passengers were kicked off there and sent on domestic flights, as this aircraft subsequently operated empty from BNE down to SYD, becoming airborne at 1049 hours and with the one hour time difference at this time of year, arriving at gate at 1310 hours, 390 minutes later than the timetabled (for QF20) 0640 hours.

-QPL is to operate QF83, the 1430 hours mid afternoon YD up to SIN that is optimistically displaying as punctual.

As @jb747 indicated above, A388 VH-OQG on QF2 diverted to PER, eventually arriving SYD at 0957 hours, quite good given the additional nautical miles and time spent on the ground in the West Australian capital. It is forming QF7, the 1405 hours SYD-DFW that as at 1415 hours hadn't become airborne.

B738 VH-XZE as QF101 from SYD to Fiji's NAN arrived at 1421 hours on Wednesday 3 December, so the returning QF102 is likely to be similarly delayed.

 

[Melburnian1]

Further to the above, on Wednesday 3 December 2025, QF83 (1430 hours SYD-SIN, A333 VH-QPL) did not depart until 1630 hours, and took off at 1648. SIN gate arrival should be about 2154 hours, 114 minutes behind schedule.