Ken Borough

Would anyone care to tell us how Qantas is able to operate its published timetable while one of it's B747-400's sits in the ground in Manila with a hole in its side?

Wunwing

Perhaps use one of the redundant 300s???

Skystar320

Every carrier would have access capacity

Transition Layer

And excess capacity as well

THE IRON MAIDEN

No, its access capacity, Because they have the capacity to access aircraft that aren't being used.



and now with 6 737s out of order.

Jabawocky

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard your QantasLink Dash 8-300 service to Singapore and London............

Machinegun Fellatio

Next Monday the QF31 out of Singapore to London has been cancelled

stiffnut

Well GD did say they were going to retire 22 aircraft, i think some of them have put their hands for vr [voluntary retirement]

dragon man

Hopefully this will give you some idea.Starting Friday the classic is finished on lunch time Perths (the curfew breaker) to be replaced by 330s (wont the Perth people be happy). Classic then does Bne-Sin-Bne for next 2 weeks. Then it will increase its frequency Mlb-Akl-LA-Akl Mlb until next bid period when it does it daily. The only problem is lack of crew so 185 hour divisor with double time again for everthing over 180 hours. No sleeper seats from QF on this route until next year then. Lucky that some one had the foresight to save money by not installing sleeper seats in J class 5 years ago. After the failure to purchase the 777 this is probably the next biggest blunder the Einsteins who run this airline have made.

mustafagander

Actually, one of the ways to ameliorate the shortage of hulls is to run the SFO service about 6 hours late. This enables the inbound QF32 service from LHR - SIN to be turned around and sent to SFO. Naturally it can't be done for too long given the need for maintenance and OSIP components to be checked.

I know about this one - my SFO trips were delayed when we clouted the blast fence in JFK as well as this time.

UPPERLOBE

Err, isn't Kangaroo and Pacific different config?

Angle of Attack

Yes but with the chaos at the moment they are all flying all over the place!! Just getting an aircraft to do the run is hard let alone the config!

Alex 009

Sounds like a goodbye tour for the classic

lowerlobe

.....and posted by Skystar320.......Most probably a spelling error eh Skystar or is the company gong to try and get the aircraft back from the museum in LongReach.....

Buster Hyman

You'll know things are desperate when you get on board and hear: "Good morning everyone, this is Capt. Travolta on the flight deck with..."

Jabawocky

Classic to LA from Melbourne......Give them what they deserve

J

Skystar320

No, it wasnt Lowerlobe.....

Because they, being Qantas have the capacity to access aircraft that aren't being used.

Lowerlobe, do you have anything better to do than scroll around the internet looking for other people mistakes?

mrpaxing

there have been so many delays/cancellations in QF in the last few month that the printed schedule means nothing. with over 5000 flights a week there have been many changes which are not published. the cost to communicate this to passengers, rebooking on other available carriers at full costs, putting passengers up in hotels around the globe, paying compensation to passengers overseas, etc.etc, runs into tens of millions of dollars. nice on Geoff.
one less 747 and other maintenance issues, one never knows which aircraft arrives/departs. the only good news is the arrival of 2 A332.

lowerlobe

Now Now Skystar ...Getting a little touchy.
I suggest you read your own post again...as Transition Layer picked it up as well.
....If Qantas has an aircraft that is capable of flying and generating revenue do you really think they would have it just sitting around or not being used?

They will get by just as they did when the BKK golf buggy incident happened but to suggest they have spare aircraft sitting around for this sort of eventuality....I don't think so Skystar.

They may lease aircraft from other carriers if they are really desperate but will probably get by with cancelling some services,combining others,reducing frequency or deferring some non essential maintenance on other aircraft...(that would be a great idea...wouldn't it?)

Skystar320

Once again lowerlobe you miss the point exactly

An aircraft doesnt fly 24hrs a day 7days a week and never will, however there are ways you can squeeze out hours on a.c that are sitting on the ground waiting their next schedule run. Call it juggling the schedules if you wish

May I suggest you train your voice of saying "Meat or Fish" when your walking down the cabin handing out food?