Qantas Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 21 December 2025, QF63, the scheduled 0930 hours midmorning SYD-JNB is expected to push back at 1100. A388 VH-OQB should operate it, having arrived from DFW as QF8 in SYD at 0701 hours, six minutes late.

QF20 ex MNL arrived SYD this morning at 0938 hours, 178 minutes late: inevitable given how delayed QF19 yesterday was ex SYD.

UPDATE: By 1140 AEDT, the expected departure delay to today's QF63 became pushback at 1300 hours.

 

[Flyerqf]

On Sunday 21 December 2025, QF63, the scheduled 0930 hours midmorning SYD-JNB is expected to push back at 1100. A388 VH-OQB should operate it, having arrived from DFW as QF8 in SYD at 0701 hours, six minutes late.

QF20 ex MNL arrived SYD this morning at 0938 hours, 178 minutes late: inevitable given how delayed QF19 yesterday was ex SYD.

UPDATE: By 1140 AEDT, the expected departure delay to today's QF63 became pushback at 1300 hours.

The A380 time keeping has been pretty bad lately, presumably the unplanned mx of OQC is having an impact.

 

[Melburnian1]

The delayed Sunday 21 December QF63 took off from SYD at 1327 hours with A388 VH-OQB likely to arrive at gate at 1807 hours, 187 minutes late. The 1730 hours Sunday overnight JNB-SYD QF64 is unlikely to depart prior to 2030 hours, so SYD arrival tomorrow may be after 1600 hours.

A333 VH-QPJ is operating QF59, the 1200 'high noon' SYD-HND airborne at 1305 hours with gate arrival suggested as 34 late at 2034 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

Possibly due to a severe thunderstorm that's passed over MEL, QF443 from SYD to MEL (A321 VH-OGB, the 1230 hours in the sky at 1250) had a missed approach a few minutes ago. It then had an unusual flying pattern above Melbourne's eastern suburbs. It eventually arrived at its gate at 1443 hours, 38 late.

 

[Melburnian1]

Continuing with Sunday 21 December 2025, QF2227, the 1850 hours evening SYD-WGA (Q400 VH-84P) was in the sky at 2007 but after reaching slightly northwest of Gundagai, NSW, it began what may have been a holding pattern to eventually decide to divert back to SYD where arrival should be at about 2217 hours. The far preferable 'old' BOM site (still available to access) had radar suggesting there'd been quite some rain over Wagga Wagga, although it had moved eastwards when I accessed the site.

Probably unlikely passengers will reach WGA tonight, and far too late to instead travel on the Sydney to Melbourne NSW TrainLink XPT that being Christmas holidays would be (like many flights) booked out. Years ago, Wagga Wagga was also served by various interstate road coach operators but the remaining ones (Firefly Express, Greyhound Australia and newbie FlixBus) favour the Hume Highway/Freeway that unlike the train does not go through Wagga. All these surface transport operators typically depart Sydney before 2100 so too early for tonight's QFd unfortunates.