VH-OJR - 17/7/09 Air Pacific departure?

[Adam.S]

I believe today's Air Pacific flight# FJ910 was operated by Qantas B747 VH-OJR, departing Sydney approx 12:50pm.


Is this flight (Qantas code share QF391) often operated by Qantas or Air Pacific aircraft?

[Tim Bowrey]

An Air Pacific 737-800 DQ-FJH arrived at about 11:45am so I wonder where that has gone or whats happned to the Air Pacific 747's today?

[Tim Bowrey]

Just found out that the Fiji 738 was covering a massive delay on the FJ911 NAN-SYD flight which is due at 10:20pm tonight. The 738 used flight number FJ1911 from Nadi. No idea when the 744(FJ910) is due to depart because it says, Sydairport.com that it has been completed, the Qantas 744 OJR. Anyones guess then.

[Adam.S]

Yes then Tim, given that I'd say OJR is replacing the Air Pacific's 747 run as the flight was showing up on the radar with the flight number reading "QFAFJI" instead of just "QFA" or "FJI".

So is this afternoon flight normally operated by Qantas or Air Pacific?

[Tim Bowrey]

Air Pacific 747 does NAN-SYD-NAN every day.

[Adam.S]

So since today's flight was operated by a Qantas aircraft, which company would then provide staff for the flight?

[Nick W.]

you can assume it would be a wet lease as it's a different aircraft config, similar as to when Air Canada provided some B763 ops for QF a few years ago between SYD and AKL it was a full wet lease, even though QF have the same aircraft type. QF staff more than likely operated the flight if it was OJR.

[Adam.S]

Originally Posted by Nick W.

QF staff more than likely operated the flight if it was OJR.

Thanks Nick I thought this may have been the case, although how did qantas manage to find enough FAs and flight crew at such short notice?
Do they have a 'stand-by' team?
...or has me and my low-IQ overlooked something here?

[Nick W.]

I don't know the exact terms from the QF side, but just speculating I'd say that the fact they found a 744 available would mean they knew this swap was coming and the usual bidding system for qantas would have been used as a normal flight. Just speculating though...

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[Adam.S]

Interesting, thanks Nick.
Having a 747 available was also another element of the situation which crossed my mind.



Hi Adam,

I edited all your posts in this thread to remove your quotes referring to the entire previous post.
Please refrain from quoting whole posts in your replies.

Thank you - mod