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Old 11th November 2019, 11:04 AM
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How interesting Radi. I wonder if the dispatcher had retired and been brought back for the occasion or is still employed.

A 17:00 departure on Thursday from LHR would give an arrival time of midnight on Friday in SYD based on a 20 hour flight time. I wonder if QANTAS would receive a dispensation for arrival during the curfew for this special flight? The arrival could well be earlier than that if ZNJ has some decent tail winds on the way but she wouldn't in all likelihood arrive by 11:00 pm.
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Old 12th November 2019, 02:10 PM
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The red tail tip of ZNK is just visible in the background of several Paine Field pics at https://twitter.com/JenSchuld - the one of the UPS 747-8F, and a couple in the El Al 787-8 set.
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Old 12th November 2019, 03:03 PM
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A 17:00 departure on Thursday from LHR would give an arrival time of midnight on Friday in SYD based on a 20 hour flight time. I wonder if QANTAS would receive a dispensation for arrival during the curfew for this special flight? The arrival could well be earlier than that if ZNJ has some decent tail winds on the way but she wouldn't in all likelihood arrive by 11:00 pm.
I wouldn’t rely on the prior flights details in terms of duration, these days much more optimal flight paths can be taken then existed back then, to take advantage of winds and RNAV
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Old 12th November 2019, 08:43 PM
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The item below from the Independent tells us that the LHR - SYD nonstop QANTAS flight will leave at 6:00 am on Thursday 14/11/19. This is 5:00 pm Sydney time which will give it an arrival time of 1:00 pm on Friday 15/11/19, using a 20 hour flight time. It could even arrive by 11:45 am, which is the time that you heard, Dennis. If so, it would better the time of the JFK - SYD flight, although it was flying into the prevailing winds and the flight from LHR will be flying with the winds.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-a9198826.html
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Old 13th November 2019, 11:42 AM
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If the 14th is the departure day then they need to ferry (re-position) to LHR in the next 24 hrs.

Can they fly LAX - LHR direct of will they need to top the tanks on the East Coast (NY) ?
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Old 13th November 2019, 12:28 PM
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Compared to LHR-SYD, I'd expect LAX-LHR to be the easy bit
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Old 13th November 2019, 02:58 PM
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VH-ZNJ is scheduled to fly LAX to LHR as QF6027.

Expected to depart LAX 23:50 local time tonight (in about 3hrs)

Arriving LHR 13/11/19 at 18:19 GMT
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Old 13th November 2019, 03:51 PM
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VH-ZNJ has been 'live' on flightradar24 in the Qantas facility area at LAX since about noon AEDST today. It was also briefly 'live' at that time yesterday.
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Old 13th November 2019, 04:03 PM
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Can they fly LAX - LHR direct of will they need to top the tanks on the East Coast (NY) ?
Virgin Atlantic 787-9s do the east-west crossing LAX-LHR in something less than 10 hours, so as Erik says it will be the easy bit.

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Old 14th November 2019, 08:30 AM
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QF6027 arrived at LHR just prior to 19:00 local time on Wednesday which gives ZNJ just over 11 hours before departure non-stop to SYD, departing at 6:00 Thursday local time, 17:00 Sydney time today.

QANTAS has now published a Media Release on the flight which, among other things, gives the intended route of the non-stop flight. It will overfly Russia, China and the Philippines which will mean it will fly north of the Himalayas and the Tibet plateau. The URL is:

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/me...search-flight/

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