Qantas 787

[Greg Hyde]

Qantas' Newest Boeing 787 Flies Over Antarctica Between Santiago & Sydney

Passengers on Qantas' direct service between Santiago, Chile, and Sydney, Australia, took the far southern route on July 14th, flying over the coast of Antarctica. More commonly, the service would travel across the Southern Pacific Ocean; however, due to solid headwinds on its usual pass, the aircraft flew to 74.17°S instead of the usual 70°.

Qantas (QF) operates a four-weekly service between Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL) and Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD), which usually has a flight time of around 14 hours. As noted above, the flight would usually fly across the southern parts of the Pacific Ocean, however in this instance, with solid headwinds expected in that part of the ocean, the decision was made to fly further south, otherwise flying with strong headwinds would have increased the scheduled flight time and fuel burn.

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https://simpleflying.com/qantas-boei...er-antarctica/

[James Smith]

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879. The flight time is 16:01, so it looks as though it won't be flying any Project Sunrise additional miles. Estimated arrival time in MEL is 6:01 tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Great news for QANTAS.

[Tristan S]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879. The flight time is 16:01, so it looks as though it won't be flying any Project Sunrise additional miles. Estimated arrival time in MEL is 6:01 tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Great news for QANTAS.

From another forum:
Aircraft has the lightest fuel load of the PAE-MEL 787 flights so far and is going to be flying with its trim not in the optimal fuel burn zone.

More testing perhaps.

[Peter C]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879.

Qantas Flight Status had original ETD as 16:30 PDT and shows that the eventual push back was at 22:53 PDT. Qantas also has revised time into Melbourne as 08:40 AEST. Just appeared on FR24 at 16:09 AEST.

[Kent Broadhead]

Originally Posted by Peter C

Qantas Flight Status had original ETD as 16:30 PDT and shows that the eventual push back was at 22:53 PDT. Qantas also has revised time into Melbourne as 08:40 AEST. Just appeared on FR24 at 16:09 AEDT.

Rolling for takeoff now

[C Patters]

Do we know ZNN’s name?

[Adrian B]

Originally Posted by C Patters

Do we know ZNN’s name?

Maaaaaaaate

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Adrian B

Maaaaaaaate

Not “Tardy”

[Jim M]

Originally Posted by C Patters

Do we know ZNN’s name?

ZNN is named "Snowy River"

[C Patters]

Thanks Jim!