Should be a good buy for someone

Most of them are being re-born as freighters.

There is life after QF

Not for the Rollers there isn't.

OGP the next to go - departs Saturday at 3pm direct to VCV.

OGP didn't want to leave, returned to the gate with a door problem before getting away on the second attempt !

OGQ was in a hanger minus roo & titles today.

Some rollers live on after QF.

VH-ZXF is now flying with JetAsia as HS-JAS

OGQ just left our shores, off to the desert.

There are now 13 left in the fleet

Does anyone know which 767 is next on the retirement list?

6 B763s will be retired by December 2014.

The remaining B763s will be retired by March 2015.

Just did a bit of a search... Updated in April on Speednews.com, the rest QF 767 fleet is listed for sale, except OGJ and OGK. I am assuming that these two maybe owned by QF, hence the last to retire??

Just spotted on FlightRadar24 and confirmed on FlightAware, OGH is off to VCV today.

I wish one of the 763 should be sent to longreach. If only space wasn't an issue

I posted this in another thread - word on one of the facebook spotters' pages is that OGG is being retired at the end of its duties today. Not sure how accurate that is.

Makes sense as QF A330 EBB enters service tomorrow.

VH-OGG has just landed in Sydney completing her service for QF. She will now be stripped bare, and sent off to the Megahub at VCV.

Here she is as she left as QF443 to Melbourne..
http://planeimages.net/i/Tuxu54J3uefI

That's a sad day then... fingers crossed she becomes one of Westjet's 4 767s and they do something nice with her :)

Agree- sorry to see her go. The 76s ability to get vertical so quickly has always impressed me.

Interestingly, there was a refueller hooked up to it when it was parked on bay this evening. I thought perhaps they'd wait until it was ready for its final departure before topping up the tanks.

As they don't often use the centre wing fuel tank domestically, they fill it up and do a leak check on it before it goes. They will most probably then transfer it to other aircraft in the mean time or if they find any leaks then fix them before it goes. The final flight will leave full of fuel.

Thanks Fred, much appreciated.

Take this with a pinch of salt but there is a thread over at airliners.... that Canadian LCC, WestJet is taking 4 ex QF B763's which will be refurbished them before entering service.

VH-OGG departed about midday today bound for LAX as QF6021 with an all female crew receiving a water canon salute.

Ahhh the first aircraft I ever jumpseated on !

According to skyliners-aviation.de VH-OGK was WFU after operating QF462 last Thursday, 7th of August and will ferry to VCV soonish.

How many does leave as active in the fleet now ?

I get 10 plus the freighter (-EFR):

-OGI, -OGJ, -OGL, -OGM, -OGN, -OGO, -OGR, -OGS, -OGT, -OGU

Looking through all the -OGx on flightaware there's a fair bit of slack in some of their flying... mightn't be too long before the next one is on its way out?

Are the new B738's and returning A330's taking up the B767 services ?

Sure, the water cannon salutes look nice, but it's just a retiring 767. Maybe the last one deserves one.

Sydney's going to run out of water by the time the remaining Qantas fleet that's due for retirement leaves our shores.

Mick

VH-OGK is due to leave our shores on Friday 15th at 1115.

Thats the plan. There will be extra flying for the 73H fleet which will take up some of the slack.

The 332s returning from JQ would also fill the capacity although it represents a significant increase in seats (303 on the 332s vs 252 on the B763s).

VH-OGK departed this morning (Friday) from SYD to VCV as QF 6017.

The duration between retirement and the ferry flight for OGK was relatively short compared to OGG.

Once they get good at it, (fast) they will run out of planes.

OGK wasn't covered in 'Planes' logos, so that may have something to do with it.

VH-OGR will finish up ops with Qantas after the completion of QFA4 on Sunday from HNL, it will depart for storage the following day.

Not quite Zac. It is sched to do some domestic sectors SYD-MEL on Fri 12.
It is then due to fly to Alice Springs on the following Friday.

Is this the first aircraft to arrive at the Australian A/C storage facility?

Ok, so changed again...or the info wasn't passed through correctly to me :P

There's actually a few there, there was a couple of Network E120s which have since departed, there is 9V-TRA/B (Tigerair A319s) as well as 9V-TRO (Tigerair A320) and an Our Airline (I think VH-INU) Boeing 737-300.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Asia-...30224813658616

Not quite Fred. Tigerair A319's 9V-TRA, 9V-TRB & TigerAir A320 9V-TRO, Our Airline B737-300 VH-INU are already stored there. There was a former Network E120 there, bu that has departed the country.

I believe -OGR and it's 3 international siblings might be WestJet bound, but another source quotes them as earlier build airframes so not 100% certain.

QF Source is reporting that


QANTAS B767-300ER VH-OGR Withdrawn.

September 12, 2014

QANTAS Boeing 767-338ER VH-OGR was withdrawn from service at Sydney this evening after arriving as QF462 from Melbourne. This brings the Boeing 767-300ER passenger fleet down to nine aircraft.