Qantas 787

[Jim M]

Originally Posted by MarkR

July 13 is its scheduled delivery flight

Thanks Mark. Let's hope it is still on schedule.

[Greg Hyde]

From Paine Field Blog

Delivery flights have been delayed on ZB282 Qantas 787 line 1051 and ZE235 Turkish 787 line 1113 until OML rework is completed later this week.

[Peter C]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

From Paine Field Blog

Delivery flights have been delayed on ZB282 Qantas 787 line 1051 and ZE235 Turkish 787 line 1113 until OML rework is completed later this week.

More from Paine Field Blog ...

"What is OML rework? Judging by work being done on the flightline it is near the sections 44 and 46 join, rework takes about five days and eight 787 airplanes are affected: lines 1039, 1051, 1081, 1093, 1107, 1113, 1119, and 1124. OML rework began on July 5 and is scheduled to be completed by August 18."

That's seven B787-9s & one B787-10.

[C Patters]

Any updates on the delivery date for ZNN?

[Greg Hyde]

Qantas' Newest Boeing 787 Flies Over Antarctica Between Santiago & Sydney

Passengers on Qantas' direct service between Santiago, Chile, and Sydney, Australia, took the far southern route on July 14th, flying over the coast of Antarctica. More commonly, the service would travel across the Southern Pacific Ocean; however, due to solid headwinds on its usual pass, the aircraft flew to 74.17°S instead of the usual 70°.

Qantas (QF) operates a four-weekly service between Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL) and Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD), which usually has a flight time of around 14 hours. As noted above, the flight would usually fly across the southern parts of the Pacific Ocean, however in this instance, with solid headwinds expected in that part of the ocean, the decision was made to fly further south, otherwise flying with strong headwinds would have increased the scheduled flight time and fuel burn.

Full story

https://simpleflying.com/qantas-boei...er-antarctica/

[James Smith]

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879. The flight time is 16:01, so it looks as though it won't be flying any Project Sunrise additional miles. Estimated arrival time in MEL is 6:01 tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Great news for QANTAS.

[Tristan S]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879. The flight time is 16:01, so it looks as though it won't be flying any Project Sunrise additional miles. Estimated arrival time in MEL is 6:01 tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Great news for QANTAS.

From another forum:
Aircraft has the lightest fuel load of the PAE-MEL 787 flights so far and is going to be flying with its trim not in the optimal fuel burn zone.

More testing perhaps.

[Peter C]

Originally Posted by James Smith

The delivery flight of B789 VH-ZNN is scheduled on Flightaware to depart at approximately 14:00 EST today flying PAE to MEL nonstop as QF7879.

Qantas Flight Status had original ETD as 16:30 PDT and shows that the eventual push back was at 22:53 PDT. Qantas also has revised time into Melbourne as 08:40 AEST. Just appeared on FR24 at 16:09 AEST.

[Kent Broadhead]

Originally Posted by Peter C

Qantas Flight Status had original ETD as 16:30 PDT and shows that the eventual push back was at 22:53 PDT. Qantas also has revised time into Melbourne as 08:40 AEST. Just appeared on FR24 at 16:09 AEDT.

Rolling for takeoff now

[C Patters]

Do we know ZNN’s name?