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Thanks Nick I thought this may have been the case, although how did qantas manage to find enough FAs and flight crew at such short notice?
Do they have a 'stand-by' team? ...or has me and my low-IQ overlooked something here? |
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I don't know the exact terms from the QF side, but just speculating I'd say that the fact they found a 744 available would mean they knew this swap was coming and the usual bidding system for qantas would have been used as a normal flight. Just speculating though...
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Interesting, thanks Nick.
Having a 747 available was also another element of the situation which crossed my mind. Hi Adam, I edited all your posts in this thread to remove your quotes referring to the entire previous post. Please refrain from quoting whole posts in your replies. Thank you - mod |
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VH-OJR opperated FJ910 NAN-SYD covering for the FJ747 that didnt come so instead of NAN-SYD-NAN it was SYD-NAN-SYD which got the SYD-NAN pax away on time although delaying the NAN-SYD pax by aggessss!
Edit- Using callsign of "Pacific 911" on decent now for RWY25. He explained it was a Qantas 747-400 to ATC too. Last edited by Tim Bowrey; 17th July 2009 at 10:27 PM. |
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VH-OJR was operated by QF Flight Crew and QF Cabin Crew. If you were QF you wouldn't lend your aircraft to just anyone to fly.
FJ aircraft was delayed due to a maint problem.
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VH-OJR arrived in Sydney at 0603 operating QF2 and then departed again at 1257 for Fiji (ACARS not reprogrammed for the 910 flight number), returning at 2151 as QF911.
VH-OJR QF0002 17/07/2009 06:03 Qantas B747-438 London-Bangkok-Sydney VH-OJR QF0002 17/07/2009 12:57 Qantas B747-438 London-Bangkok-Sydney VH-OJR QF0911 17/07/2009 21:51 Qantas B747-438 Nadi-Sydney This was the QF911 route back from Fiji.
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I believe being on call is one of the most stressful parts of bein an FA because it makes planning day to day life very difficult |
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It would be stressful being "up in the air" not knowing whether you will be "up in the air" today!
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Thanks for all replies.
I found this subject quite interesting. cheers |
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No different to anyone else who is on call. That is why people get paided to be on call.
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