QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[Tristan S]

VQP currently positing to TSV from HKG - would guess this is for a repaint to QLink colours.

[Tristan S]

VQR is heading direct to PER .. guessing they either did painting in SIN or they will do that once VQP gets out of the paint shop

[Brenden S]

I saw it reported on a facebook group that VQR and VQP painted in TSV before heading to Asia for heavy maintenance.

[Tristan S]

Not sure how accurate that is.. VQR came in on an RPT flight from ZQN before heading to HKG and VQP is currently in TSV

[Rowan McKeever]

VH-NXI about half an hour out of ASP now enroute CBR-ASP-DRW for today. Operating as SXI2341. Assume it will follow much the same route as NXJ did recently, albeit hopefully somewhat faster and with fewer stops. This is the third to be withdrawn.

NXD is, or was until very recently, parked engineless on the compass pad at CBR - if still there, it would be over a week now. I did hear tell that NXD will be the fourth withdrawal, noting it will need engines installed before it can go anywhere.

[MarkR]

June 20 (Reuters) - Qantas (QAN.AX) and Airbus (AIR.PA) have finalised an incremental order for nine Airbus A220-300s aircraft, the companies said at the Le Bourget air show in Paris on Tuesday.

Qantas had said it planned to order additional A220s in February this year.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aer...ft-2023-06-20/

Now 29 on order

[Ryan K]

The more reports that are coming out on the A220, the more I'm seeing mocked up images of them in full Qantas livery, rather than QantasLink. Has Qantas given any indication as to whether these new aircraft will be in full Qantas livery considering they'll be used on major trunk routes and regional routes?

[Greg Hyde]

Like this one

[Greg Hyde]

Originally Posted by Rowan McKeever

VH-NXI about half an hour out of ASP now enroute CBR-ASP-DRW for today. Operating as SXI2341. Assume it will follow much the same route as NXJ did recently, albeit hopefully somewhat faster and with fewer stops. This is the third to be withdrawn.

NXI has continued her ferry to VCV and has changed her flight no to QF6070 after entering USA.

[James Smith]

NXI has just touched down in VCV after 12 days since leaving CBR.