Rego Request: QF6 17 May 09

[Fabian Lee]

G'day all. What is the rego of QF6 landing in SYD tomorrow (17/5/09) morning? Understand it might be OEJ. Oso did OEB operate QF6 into SYD on Fri morning (15/5/09)? Thank you for your kind help.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Fabian,

From www.16Right.com (http://www.16Right.com)

VH-OEB QF0006 15/05/2009 04:47 Qantas B747-48E Frankfurt-Singapore-Sydney

QF5 yesterday was OJJ so that should be the return aircraft tomorrow.

VH-OJJ QF0005 15/05/2009 16:22 Qantas B747-438 Sydney-Singapore-Frankfurt

Although this ACARS transmission for last nights departure from Frankfurt is a little confusing, a B763, maybe a corrupt transmission.

ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: VH-OGC
Message label: H Block id: 1 Msg no: D002
Flight id: [B]QF0006 [FRA-SIN-SYD] [Qantas]
Message content:-
#1BBTKO 2347 15MAY09 BNE POM P230 P191 00048 255 136732 04 L 0978 1030 801 8017 1132 66 084 136 08B 2000 R 0977 1027 794 7889 1130 59 085 141 10B 200 1080 0979 178 069P600 1080 0977 182
----------------------------------------------------------[ 16/05/2009 01:50 ]-

[Anthony J]

That is because Air Niugini is damp leasing Qantas 767s at the moment. VH-OGC operated PX006 BNE-POM however the prefix is not changeable in ACARS so it comes up as QF006.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Thanks Anthony, mystery solved.

[Mick B]

OEJ definitely operated QF5 SIN-FRA on Thursday 14th May.

That means it should operate FRA-SIN-SYD on Friday 15th and arrive back into Sydney at approx 5am Sunday 17th.

Cheers

[Fabian Lee]

Thank you all for your helpful info.