QF 1202 MEL-SYD - 747 at the Domestic gate

[mrfreeze]

Sitting in the J Lounge and saw a QF 747 taxi by thinking it was going to turn left to wards the runway but it kept going and parked itself (well a human parked it, doubt the plane is that smart) at the domestic terminal gate 23 or 25.
Checked the board and it is flying MEL - SYD today as QF 1202.

I can only recall seeing a 747 at the domestic gate in Melbourne once before.
Anyone know reason why a 747 would fly the domestic route, charter maybe?

 

[anat0l]

Anyone know reason why a 747 would fly the domestic route, charter maybe?

Well SYD/PER used to have at least one 747 service until QF pulled the idea (again).

Perhaps to address all the delayed pax who have been messed around due to adverse weather?

During the ash cloud recovery, QF operated a A380 from SYD to MEL in order to account for the volume of displaced and delayed passengers.

 

[JessicaTam]

Sitting in the J Lounge and saw a QF 747 taxi by thinking it was going to turn left to wards the runway but it kept going and parked itself (well a human parked it, doubt the plane is that smart) at the domestic terminal gate 23 or 25.
Checked the board and it is flying MEL - SYD today as QF 1202.

I can only recall seeing a 747 at the domestic gate in Melbourne once before.
Anyone know reason why a 747 would fly the domestic route, charter maybe?

Paging markis10 to the white courtesy phone.

 

[markis10]

Probably a charter.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

It's showing up in the GDS and bookable. departure is 13.15

 

[markis10]

It's showing up in the GDS and bookable. departure is 13.15

End of long weekend cap boost!

 

[mrfreeze]

Just called for boarding.

Now to watch it taxi out and get airborne.

 

[Batesy]

It ferried down from Sydney earlier as QF6019 and is heading back as QF1202. An A380 flying QF2 was diverted to MEL amongst many other diversions this morning. Not sure why as the weather here in Sydney seemed fine this morning.

 

[petercr]

Just looking at FlightRadar24 and it's showing QF1202 as being the flight from JNB and diverting via Melb... tail number is supposedly OJA... maybe they shorted the JNB-SYD trip for some reason and QF1202 is picking up? (would be odd it being domestic though)

 

[TheEmu]

Paging markis10 to the white courtesy phone.

Probably a charter.

No, the white courtesy phone!

 

[JessicaTam]

No, the white courtesy phone!

As long as the 747 was parked in the yellow zone.

 

[TheEmu]

As long as the 747 was parked in the yellow zone.

747 parking has never been allowed in the yellow zone.

 

[petercr]

Nooo... you've got that confused... The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

 

[moa999]

From Qantas Source:

[h=2]10th June 2013 - VH-OJA Positions for Domestic Extra Flight.[/h] Boeing 747-438 VH-OJA positioned Sydney - Melbourne as QF6019 late this morning in order to operate an additional Melbourne - Sydney service as QF1202.

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So was only bookable one way

 

[Aussie_flyer]

From Qantas Source:



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So was only bookable one way

Would have been a bit of fun , does it have F seats ?

 

[pauly7]

Used to love getting the 747 Syd-Mel!

 

[SeatBackForward]

Nooo... you've got that confused... The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

Surely you can't be serious!

 

[petercr]

yes, I'm serious... and stop calling me Shirley...

 

[TheEmu]

These Airplane one-liners seem to be on auto-pilot now and it's leaving me feeling a little deflated...