Qantas starts international wifi

[Beano]

WLG-MEL yesterday afternoon dropped out for about 20 min as we approached the coast, then came back.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I was on QF52 a couple of weeks ago and we had Wi-Fi, announcement made at the start of the flight in SIN. VH-EBO
I went to sleep for most of it but it was working ok for the first couple of hours. Not anything like Starlink quality but could use Messenger and Facebook.

 

[Brettmcg]

Have it on decent authority that the first B789 will go in for WiFi fitting this month (either ZNG or ZNJ) and the whole B789 fleet will be kitted out by July 2026. Saw a map of all possible flight routes between AU-US and only the QF3/4 and QF21/22 should have extended periods of dropout - all the rest have pretty much continuous coverage.

The A380s are going to take considerably longer by all accounts.

 

[bablong]

Was on QF72 VH-EBL on Sunday 5 Oct. Wifi dropped out around Jakarta and only came back when we crossed the coast near Carnarvon.

 

[NZflygirl]

Have it on decent authority that the first B789 will go in for WiFi fitting this month (either ZNG or ZNJ) and the whole B789 fleet will be kitted out by July 2026. Saw a map of all possible flight routes between AU-US and only the QF3/4 and QF21/22 should have extended periods of dropout - all the rest have pretty much continuous coverage.

The A380s are going to take considerably longer by all accounts.

So does that mean that all the A330s will have completed their wifi installs in order for the 789s to proceed with installation or are the 789 wifi installs occurring concurrently? There are 14 789s so they're going to get about ~ 1.5 fitted per month. Are they being done at a different facility from the A330s? I have no idea where the installs are occurring but going to guess Sydney??

 

[elanshin]

So does that mean that all the A330s will have completed their wifi installs in order for the 789s to proceed with installation or are the 789 wifi installs occurring concurrently? There are 14 789s so they're going to get about ~ 1.5 fitted per month. Are they being done at a different facility from the A330s? I have no idea where the installs are occurring but going to guess Sydney??

No the 330s aren't done. I'd guess it's probably trying to just squeeze them in when there's "slack" in the schedule or if they need some maintenance as the 330s and 787s basically run completly different routes and use different maintenance bases as well.

 

[DejaBrew]

Have it on decent authority that the first B789 will go in for WiFi fitting this month (either ZNG or ZNJ) and the whole B789 fleet will be kitted out by July 2026. Saw a map of all possible flight routes between AU-US and only the QF3/4 and QF21/22 should have extended periods of dropout - all the rest have pretty much continuous coverage.

The A380s are going to take considerably longer by all accounts.

Sounds like my source was on the money then…

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