QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[Tristan S]

A388 VH-OQK inbound to SYD from AUH. Due just before 1600L

EDIT: its going to MEL, ETA 1500L

[James Smith]

OQK as QF 6014 has diverted to MEL and OQD is currently conducting a one hour 25 minute test flight to the east of SYD as QF6011.

[James Smith]

OQD is currently conducting a one hour 25 minute test flight to the east of SYD as QF6011

OQD has conducted four short flights today which look to be technical crew training flights. This would be in readiness for QF11/12 going daily with the A380 from the end of March.

[Peter C]

Originally Posted by James Smith

OQD has conducted four short flights today which look to be technical crew training flights. This would be in readiness for QF11/12 going daily with the A380 from the end of March.

Meanwhile it appears QF11/QF12 has gone back to daily from March 1st, with just two A380 services now on Monday & Saturday and 789s on the other 5 days, replacing the interim three A380s and one 789 per week.

[Peter C]

Originally Posted by Peter C

Meanwhile it appears QF11/QF12 has gone back to daily from March 1st, with just two A380 services now on Monday & Saturday and 789s on the other 5 days, replacing the interim three A380s and one 789 per week.

Once QF11/QF12 becomes an all A380 operation, the 5 surplus 789s initially appear to be distributed to cover 3 extra MEL-LAX QF93/QF94 rotations to make that a daily service, and one each to SYD-DFW QF7/QF8 and SYD-JNB QF63/QF64, taking those services up to 4 per week.

[James Smith]

Looking at the location of all QANTAS A380s, there are only 7 left stored at VCV, 1 stored at AUH, 1 just positioning to LAX, with the remaining 3 in SYD (1 just arrived and the other 2 back in service).

Future expansion of A380 services will be daily QF11/12 SYD-LAX-SYD from 27/3/22 and daily QF1/2 SYD-LHR-SYD via SIN from 19/6/22, when an additional 3 A380s will be required to return to service. The LHR services will be operated by refurbished models as stated by Alan Joyce. No further A380 services have as yet been announced.