NXM continues her ferry to VCV via the European route. Currently in Sofia, Bulgaria

NXM now flying as QF6070 should arrive in VCV in the next couple of days.

Apparently QF596 YSSY-YBCG had hydraulic issues and upon touchdown reported full loss of hydraulics and became stranded on the end of runway 32 at OOL.
VH-VXC is the aircraft in question
Info from Matt Coughran on FB (cheers Matty!)

QF's first A330F due into BNE and CNS this friday, arriving into CNS at 1400, departing at 1445, arriving into BNE at 1655 all as QF7532.

Get the cameras ready!!!

Yep i will try to get there...Have to fight the traffic to get home.:)

The newly painted EBF has filed its flight plan to Australia. Flightaware is showing a direct flight from PUS to BNE scheduled to depart at 11:00 AEST and arrive in BNE at 19:41 local. I don't know what happened to the potential CNS stopover.

Interesting, FR24 is still showing the full PUS-SIN / SIN-CNS-BNE / BNE-SYD-ADL-MEL routing, as is online flight status on QF website.

Strange. FR24 is showing two duplicate SIN-CNS and CNS-BNE flights tomorrow 22/9/23, three hours apart, with PUS-SIN today leaving at 11:00 AEST. We'll be watching which route it takes with interest.

EBF looks to be definitely heading towards BNE and scheduled to arrive at 19:59 local time. The later part of the route on Flightaware is B562 from New Guinea to MK (Mackay), Y61 to waypoint RUROX and Y177 to waypoint SMOKA and descent into BNE. So, it doesn't look as though it will land in CNS. FR24 seems to be confused.

Confirmed it has filed YBBN as destination. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA7532 - ETA 8pm local

EBF has arrived in BNE, same scheme as the 321s and renamed ‘Hercules’.

Do the A321F's have names ?

Nope, EBF seems to be the first freighter names.

EBF is currently on its way to CNS who won't miss out on seeing it today.

Watched it this morning on live stream and has Australia Post titles like what Stirling said.Same as the 321's

Sorry if this was mentioned elsewhere on the message board.

Interesting to see QF will deploy 380's on the SYD-JNB route starting July 2024. I would of thought SYD-DFW would of got 380's back before upgrading JNB, especially since QF 16 & 93 are night services at that time of the year....hence killing connections at LAX.

DFW is range-limiting (I read elsewhere today that the B744ER operated westbound on that route with ~100 seats blocked), and now has the second route to MEL. Even the B789s have had diversions to BNE etc. on the westbound services, and they're more capable than the A380.

JNB will also operate at between 4 and 6 weekly A380s with no other non-stop service, compared with pre-COVID where QF were operating at up to daily with a B744 in addition to SA operating daily to PER. And of course once upon a time there was VA, too.

After this incident VXC ferried to SYD on 19/9/23 and returned to service operating QF651 SYD-PER on Tuesday 26/9/23. It operated internal WA services yesterday.

When is VH-EBD returning to service?

Later this year apparently.

OQH is currently ferrying from LAX-PUS as QF6015 possibly for repainting. It is one of two A380s still in the old QANTAS livery, the one where the kangaroo on the tail has arms.

Boeing 717 VH-NXJ was deleted from the register on 06/10/2023 as exported to USA.

VH-NXN is enroute to WA at the moment.

to counter one of the Q group's lowest paid entities they're enlisted another of the group's lowest paid entities.

Will be interesting to see what aircraft will be operating the rescue flights from Israel to London Friday and Sunday

100% don’t think Qantas have many spare aircraft given a number of them are in maintenance at the moment & being used for regular services

AA reporting 787s, and will disrupt the current flying. So possibly running off the back of QF9?

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...e-from-israel/

Qf6001 lhr0640 – 1230tlv 789 5
qf300 tlv1525 – 1945lhr 789 5

qf6001 lhr0635 – 1225tlv 789 7
qf300 tlv1525 – 1945lhr 789 7

Thanks for the details of the special flights by QANTAS to TLV, Stirling. QF9 is scheduled to arrive at LHR at 5:05 each morning. It will turn around to operated to TLV returning to LHR at 19:45.

I presume that QF10 will depart 22:00'ish to PER about 10 hours late and may not operate the PER-MEL-PER leg but return to LHR as QF9 seven or eight hours late. Alternatively, QANTAS could redeploy another B789 from MEL-LAX for example and replace it with an A380 as there are excess A380s at present that could be used prior to the commencement of the NW schedule.

QF10 is not bookable on Friday and Saturday

Interestingly FR24 TLV Arrivals schedule shows VH-ZNN due in at 13:30 local as ASY1168. So operated on behalf of the RAAF rather than thier QF6xxx charter numbers??

Qantas don’t have traffic rights into TLV so that probably explains the callsign. Looks like they have delayed the QF10 by 12 hours so maybe the aircraft are doing the TLV rotation then resuming normal ops with crews doubling up at LHR

ZNN is on the ground in TLV. Arrived a few minutes ago.

The remaining repatriation flights have been cancelled due to the rapidly changing and volatile conditions.
https://7news.com.au/news/conflict/q...nes-c-12200920

VXA had it's YES decals removed last night. Spotters in Perth have reported it is back to standard livery. Does anyone know if VFP and TQZ have had the same treatment?

A380, OQL has just left SYD for SIN as QF6001. Does anyone know what the flight is for - maintenance, refurbishment, repatriation or? If to the middle east for repatriation reasons it would probably be operating non-stop. Hopefully, the flight is for refurbishment but AUH and DRS have been the locations where this has been done up to now.

Also, OQH will probably return to SYD this week after repainting in PUS. Hopefully OQI, being the only remaining A380 in the previous livery, will be able to be squeezed in for repainting in PUS before the start of the NW schedules.

OQL appears to be off to LHR after SIN.

Thanks Wenglock. The flight is possibly positioning to LHR to pick up the passengers from the first repatriation flight from TLV to LHR. Maybe it will return to Australia via the middle east to also pick up passengers from more recent military repatriation flights to Dubai.