Qantas starts international wifi

[bablong]

VH-EBL QF72 Singapore to Perth on Friday night worked for quite a bit out of Singapore then hit a dead spot until over the coast of WA.

 

[NZflygirl]

VH-EBL QF72 Singapore to Perth on Friday night worked for quite a bit out of Singapore then hit a dead spot until over the coast of WA.

How long did the dead spot last for? An hour?

 

[bablong]

How long did the dead spot last for? An hour?

When it went dead I didn’t check for a while as I was snoozing (having connected from QF2) so I wasn’t testing it. Just tried it again after I woke and it was working and we were over the coast.

 

[BrianQQ]

On QF19, VH-EBR is working.

11mbs down (outside of Australian airspace).

 

[moa999]

Report on airliners.net that A333 VH-QPH, which is presumably shortly to return to service, has received the satellite bump in BNE maintenance, making it the first in the 333 fleet.

 

[BrianQQ]

VH-EBV did not have Wi-Fi the whole way. Was undiscoverable.

 

[NZflygirl]

VH-EBV did not have Wi-Fi the whole way. Was undiscoverable.

Did you ask crew why?

 

[sudoer]

Did you ask crew why?

This is Qantas we're talking about ... that would certainly be met with this sort of response:

(I once flew Qantas SYD-HKG in First class and had a non-functioning headphone port. Asked for assistance and was met with an eye-roll and immediate "we'll write it up in the engineering log for someone to look at in Hong Kong"... great!)

 

[Lowjhg]

VH-EBC was working all the way till the coast near BME, after that, was a slight nudge connection via the QF entertainment app and connection was restored all the way to SIN.

 

[jb747]

Did you ask crew why?

They wouldn't know. QF doesn't tell them anything either.

 

[moa999]

Report on airliners.net that A333 VH-QPH, which is presumably shortly to return to service, has received the satellite bump in BNE maintenance, making it the first in the 333 fleet.

Looks like QPH finally back into service a couple of days ago. Replaced by QPI in the hanger.