Perspective from the ground
It was Saturday Morning the 13th March Brisbane time.
At about 0400 local (no daylight savings in the dumb state), I was working (ATC) and my supervisor came over and advised that QF12 was about 4hrs late getting away due to tug and other problems at LAX, and that presently they were going to arrive in YSSY with less than 1hr duty time left.
He asked if they could have as much direct tracking as possible to avoid a BNE diversion (now that would have been news hey, just like UAL839 a few weeks ago!), and that other QF aircraft would get out of the way to facilitate this...
I finished at 0600 local and passed the info onto my relief...