QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[MarkR]

Qantas’ direct service from Perth to London’s Heathrow Airport has been diverted as tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate and foreign carriers avoid Iranian airspace amid fears Tehran is planning an attack on Israel.
A Qantas spokesman confirmed flight QF9 from Perth to London would now fly via Singapore for refuelling due to the adjusted flight path. The return flight QF10, however, can carry enough fuel and is still flying direct from London to Perth.

https://www.afr.com/companies/transp...0240413-p5fjjv

[MarkR]

OQJ did a rotation through Gatwick for the first time, on charter to what I suspect is the usual customer

[Tristan S]

EBN is due to re-enter service today after spending a couple of weeks in BNE reportedly being fitted with Viasat WiFi

[MarkR]

11 years after leaving the fleet, former VH-ZXC is still going strong for Eastern, although her age is showing!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5-KcUFu..._web_copy_link

[Brenden S]

Mark, looks like a little Hydraulic leak from the rudder has taken the paint away. Skydrol does that to aircraft paint.

[James Smith]

From QANTAS Flight Status, A380 VH-OQH is scheduled to depart AUH at 16:10 local today and arrive is SYD at 6:10 Saturday morning.

Another A380 is scheduled to depart SYD at 11:10 on Saturday morning for AUH, presumably also for maintenance. Early contenders would be OQB, OQD, OQI & OQJ to be reduced by two depending on which A380's depart as QF1 & QF11 later today.