Qantas Airbus A330 Fleet Refurbishment

[Gordon Lee]

Originally Posted by Fred C

Thats a bugger Gordon. The odds should have been in your favour!

Fred C, don't know why I am on the QPG on the way back home. It is a much much better experience. QPJ is operating QF 51 today.

[Fred C]

Glad you got a reconfig aircraft. Hope you enjoy it.
Welcome to the world of airline operations. The aircraft swap and change every single day just to give customers a safe, working aircraft on time. Rego requests are ultimately a little futile when you see just how often it all changes.

[Gordon Lee]

Hi Fred C,

Thanks. QPG was a great aircraft to fly just got refurbished in April. I noticed that it did not have new toilets and overhead luggage compartment replaced. Otherwise new seat, Panasonic eX3 entertainment are very good and matching A380 products. When QPJ gets refurb from 3 May for a month or so, there will be no hassle to fly on a new product airplanes on the Asian and mid-haul destinations.

Next I hope to see 789 to come to Qantas fleet from 2017 and gradually replacing the aging 744.

It was a surprise to have great sushi meal onboard last night QF62. The quality was on the higher mark for an airline meal.

[Gordon Lee]

Originally Posted by Fred C

Glad you got a reconfig aircraft. Hope you enjoy it.
Welcome to the world of airline operations. The aircraft swap and change every single day just to give customers a safe, working aircraft on time. Rego requests are ultimately a little futile when you see just how often it all changes.

I also realize aircraft swap was to make less aircrafts on ground in order to increase operation revenue. However, this may not make airliners to have spare aircrafts on ground for sudden events. For example NRT bound QPA was returned back to Brisbane recently due to engine vibration and noise. With no comparable spare replacement, that flight has to be delayed for 24 hours, may be due to destination airport landing and parking slots. Subsequently, this affected other flight (QF97) due to the plane for normal operation swap was delayed returning back to Brisbane.

I had a very bad experience with Qantas back in April 2010. The LAX bound 3 class 744 aircraft QF15 was cancelled due to aircraft problem. Therefore QANTAS had to ferry another 4 class 744 from JFK that caused delay for our departure of QF16. Subsequently we had bad luck that one of the engines could not start up in taxiway that required the aircraft back to Gate. Due to American law, we had to stay in the aircraft for 4 hours and finally declared cancelled. All pessengers are required to re-enter the state for accommodation as there was no aircraft available. QANTAS subsequently ferried an old 747 from AKL to take us back home after 12 hours delay and another bad luck engine incidence caused another 3 hours delay before finally took off from LAX. It was a scare experience for all the passengers as we are not sure how well the plane can fly over the pacific for 15 hours. We finally got home after 16 hours delay.

[Christopher Campbell]

VH-EBB has returned to service

[Zac M]

It was never out of service....there is an A332 spare parked in BNE every weekend.

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[Christopher Campbell]

Oh ok

[Christopher Campbell]

Brisbane Maintenance: (from Australian Frequent flyer)
N381HA 21st April, expect 16th May
VH-EBC 2nd May, expect 23rd May
VH-QPJ 3rd May, expect 1st June

[Christopher Campbell]

VH EBC left Brisbane the maintenance today and has been replaced by VH-EBM supposedly for refurbishment

[Christopher Campbell]

N381HA is due to leave Brisbane M too Honulu at 8:10pmaa HAL9800. Will EBM take its place and be refurbished now or is there another HA A330 to be swapped in for maintenance straight away?