Qantas Bringing Olympic Team Home
 

Does anyone know why OEJ didn't position from San Francisco to Santiago to collect the Olympic team as reported given its had the special decals attached?

Looks like OEG positioned to Santiago instead as QF6007 as OEJ is currently operating QF74. Did OEJ go tech at the last minute therefore couldn't operate the special flight home for the Olympic team?

http://www.theqantassource.com/qanta...san-francisco/
http://www.theqantassource.com/qanta...ing-flight-19/

Thanks for the info Max.
I reckon that this is a major embarrassment for Qantas given they spent time & money on specific decals for OEJ which were really only relevant to bring the Olympic team home. Looks like the 747-400's need some maintenance as OEJ went tech a week ago.

According to a post in a facebook group OEJ went tech in SFO. It should've arrived back in SYD this morning (Monday) then back out to SCL this arvo before positioning to GIG to pick up the team.

It's a common misconception that maintenance prevents things from breaking, I don't think it is an embarrassment at all, just an example of the issues that face airlines everyday.

According to Flightradar24:
VH-OEG has just departed GIG (Rio de Janeiro) on route to SCL (Santiago) as QF 6032

OEJ is operating QF27 today to Santiago so it might swap with OEG & bring the Olympic team home as planned.

It won't get to SCL in time... in fact it'll arrive in SCL about 8hrs after the team's flight departs. OEG will be the team charter and OEJ will ops the extended QF27/28 which runs through to GIG on timings 24hrs behind the team charter.

I wonder is it a mandatory requirement for the Australian team athletes to be on the Team charter?

I would wonder since Brazil is so far away from Australia, wouldn't it be better if our athletes will spend some time touring around Brazil after the games before heading home?

whet and spend their own money. i think not