I also agree with Keg with regard to PA's from the flight deck. I have NEVER been on a flight where the captain or other flight crew have lied about the reason for a delay. It is what it is, loading, paper work, connecting flights, engineering... whatever. Have even had flight crew go to both the First and Business lounges on extended delays to talk to our pax about the delays and answer any questions. (obviously only if time permits!)

Remember, just because we have a delay at one point, say waiting for connecting pax, doesn't mean another will not pop up! :ok:

On a side note - I have heard that some crew are now giving out the office numbers of both our CEO and QF GM so that pax can vent on them! :D

One crew reporting from singapore that over 1000 passengers have been rebooked on other carriers thru there in the last week, due to the ongoing delays to qf services. A bit sensitive to the pax reaction previously in sydney perhaps?

did i hear someone say "FOG" in sydney this morning?

You never know when a bad fog will raise its ugly head.

Airbus late out of maint. in Syd yesterday, left for Perth quite a few hours late. Due into Melb at 1815 last night arrived at 0215 this morning. What a great way to end your long weekend!. At least we had licences and parked it.

Flying Empty
 

Tonight...Thursday 12th of June 2008.
A 747 is flying to LAX.....empty.
Thats a whole lot of burn for absolutely no revenue.
Any one able to provide the finer details?

shame GD shame
 

QF149 late ex maint est dep 2100....very late..shame on you GD

QF73 SYD-SFO delayed 6 hrs, late ex maint.

We can only hope they are stupid enough to send aircraft all the way to LAX empty for an A Check.........imagine the cost when the boys up their refuse to sign for all the sub-standard yank work and make them re-do it under 100% supervision ( remember the FAA inspectors only go crazy when they LEAVE the country to do audits)

They are getting desperate!!

Sitting in the QF club SYD waiting for my late Darwin flight. Keep up the good work guys.

Hey Geoff, what's the f*cking story with Quaintarse?
 

QF511 outta Brisbane for Sydney this morning (14th) - 30 min late departure!

Aborted TO - "Minor technical fault" - I suspect they didn't wind the rubberband up enough cause we taxyed around and had another go - successful!

QF73 outta Sydney to San Francisco - 4 hrs delay and counting!

Dr :}

PS: I know I shoulda taken the Bonza !

It's normal to get maintenance done in LAX .... aircraft is all day there anyway, and QF has several Engineers based there.

N

Noip,
It's normal for a small component of some A checks to be done in LAX.

This particular one was flown up empty for it's FULL a check to be carried out by 35 local mercenaries and the 6+ QF LAMEs....who are none to happy about it and hopefully giving 100% supervision...!!

Hmm, guess there wasn't anywhere in Asia able to carry out an A Check.......or wouldn't due to QF continually breaking contracts........

An ugly sister heading for a 2 day layover in LAX for an A chk, Thursday.

Anyone know which 2 767s are to be grounded yet? (per media release)

.....and how have the 767 hold items been going? .....anything else due to be grounded soon?

SOQ,

Thanks for the clarification ..... yes, an aircraft I was on recently there - they mentioned an A check was going to be done during the day. The guys (Lames) there are great blokes and I have the utmost confidence in their professional desire to provide a superb aircraft .......

Rgds

N

Late Late Late
 

QF 101 ex MEL to PVG...4 hours late.(14/06/2008)
QF 130 ex PVG to SYD consequently 4 hours late arriving into SYD

Increasing. Apparently historic lows for the 767 about 12-ish months ago. Now double that which is still low and still below the worst that is has been but the (rapid) trend is causing concern to some.

....and it's not just "hold items", but MELs and the combination of MELs that we're being asked to accept on the 767.

You can have 20 hold items, all of which can be fairly benign. You can have 3 MELs which cause you to seriously say "Uh uh. You either fix something, or give us another aeroplane, or we can walk off and go home", or which have such a compounding and significant effect on, say, performance data and/or operational issues that you end up delaying the flight just to figure out exactly how you're going to handle it.

QF1 SYD BKK due to dep 1700 cancelled 15/6 . Pax commenced boarding at 2245 some made it door of aircraft but no dispensation granted for departure after curfew.

Estimated departure now 0830 today.