I can only imagine the state of the WC's for the last few hours of the flight.

I can’t imagine operating a flight for that amount of time. The crew must be frazzled.

I dare say there would have been significant pressure exerted for this inaugural flight to have everything in that department maintained to surgical theatre levels of hygiene for the entire 17 hours.

I have no doubt it will become an issue down the track once all the hoopla has died down and the level of scrutiny reduces.

Perhaps the Qantas Angels could whip up a campaign to get the loos stocked with PooPourri?!? LOL!


PG :}

Poo Pourri won’t work in a long drop dunny (no water). 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

They've admitted it! No alleged about it.

Interestingly, while the Aussies are wearing the flying kangaroo, the umpires "Fly Emirates".:D

Should be on the ground in 25 mins. First arrival of the day.

The descent has begun!

Hope they remembered that the Europeans put the clocks forward one hour overnight.

That is no way to talk about Qantas Management! :E

Hmmm....17 hours QF Y class..(plus east coast connection maybe) ...you will not have slept..and now what? ....stay up all day?...what do you do until hotel check-in....yeah....no thanks...

Cones all 'round!
 

Job done.


And well done to all who deserve it! :D:ok:





(Now we cross back to Sydney for resumption of usual programming...)

17hrs and 3 minutes, I bet all the crew are shagged.

What is the rest period? Anyone in the know

I think it has more to do with the milestone of connecting Australia to the UK non-stop.

There were several milestones in commercial aviation history, like the first Pacific crossing below the Antarctic circle, or the first non-stop East-West crossing of the US, etc etc. We know the time and distance is not the real issue, it's the simbolic significance of what has just ocurred.

...Now, I bet the pax and crew must be barely alive.

150 crew and 150 pax?

Even closer to home - UA101 HOU-SYD last week was 17hr 52min, also in their game changer 787-9 :)

It is not about the flight statistics.
For some Australians it is an iconic travel connection. Fewer now feel this but many older Australians still have an historic connection to UK.
There is a book many of us were required to read at school - The Tyranny of Distance by Geoffrey Blainey.

Yeah, that North Pacific airspace throws in some real challenges with the density of aircraft trying to get FLs..............:rolleyes:

And Qantas is helping them out by halving the number of seats from Melbourne to London. :rolleyes:

Rumour is 2 A380s back in London by the end of the year.

Yes, and QANTAS under current management and Board have destroyed the iconic status this airline was once regarded by the Australian people.
Now sadly just another airline.

(Yes, I seem to like the word iconic!).

we know the crew who flew it there, who will fly it back and how many hours before the original crew flies again?

a passenger review from "Y". (still not allowed to posts url's)
h t t p s://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/perth-london-direct-qantas-flight-on-board-the-maiden-flight-ng-b88785243z

Well done QF.

Ha ha....17hrs in QF economy and an article released so soon??......methinks perhaps written before it even left PER! ... :hmm:

Suspect Peter Beattie has a closing ceremony speech already written as well...no doubt "Best Commonwealth Games ever" will feature in it?? :hmm:

I’m sure she had time to write it on the way.

I suspect it’s the revised arrival slot at LHR on the first day of the Summer sched that drove it, not the Dep slot out of Perth the day before.

Get stuff.

Any word on what they might do out of SYD or MEL? Any direct to EU?

Whinging about 17 hrs in economy. Back in the past, I'd travel to the UK 3 times a year to visit family. Work a full day in the office, jump on the burner in Sydney, land at LHR, jump in a hire car and drive to Newcastle in time or family dinner then clubbing in South Shields. The next morning was interesting, working out whos bed I was in and where the heck I was. Sigh, .........those were the days.

Wonder what it smelt like on arrival??????????

Probably the same as the other flights that are as long or longer run by other airlines using similar aircraft .

Aircraft interior was fine. Routine flight for which the aircraft was designed. It seems to have escaped QF PR that scores of B787 have been in service with many airlines for some years, and a few flying similar sectors!

Can anyone confirm the crew rest config for the QF 787? Is it the 1 seat, 2 bunk module which I believe is the standard option for the tech crew? Curious to know if they blocked another seat in the cabin for upright rest and which class of seat they used. I’ve been told that the 787 crew rest doesn’t meet ULH requirements (class 1 v 2 standards??) Cheers HH

Second sentence in this article sums that up.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/5894...economy-class/

...and maybe this bit...

:}

Bring on the Boom airliners of the future...

Reminds me of this quote from Craig Nelson's "Rocket Men";

"The bravest man in the Apollo program was the Navy frogman who had to open the hatch of the recovered capsule after three guys had been shoehorned into it for a week."

Yeah well, ****. Qf has never done much Asia to London
Never over the Himalayas, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the other stans
crikey
:hmm:

Maggot needs to be able to indicate 'heavy sarcasm' in his post. Where's the smilie?

Haha better?
I thought it was dripping enough

Some of the muppets will believe you! Many also forget that Qantas pioneered the art of long range flying and should read up on the flights of the double sunrise with Cats in WW2.

Bummer - can't see QF10 on FR24 but can see it on Flightaware - not that long to go now. Sometimes they drop off FR24 for no apparent reason ??

Cheers

Ok it's just reappeared on FR24

Cheers