QF1 Delayed departure out of Sydney 14th June

[Patrick Malseed]

Does anyone have any info on the reason for the 14 hour delay to QF1 yesterday evening?

[Ollie Menkens]

the A380 is a very unreliable aircraft and there must have being a massive problem or it could be chaos at Dubai airport with the runway works.

[Michael Arentz]

It's certainly more reliable than your wild speculations.

[Fred C]

Well it wasn't Dubai airport. It was maintenance related. Not really a massive problem but one that wouldn't allow it to fly.

[Mackenzie Davis]

Originally Posted by Ollie Menkens

the A380 is a very unreliable aircraft and there must have being a massive problem or it could be chaos at Dubai airport with the runway works.

It is a pretty reliable aircraft with a dispatch rate of nearly 99% for Emirates according to a FlightGlobal article which is 3 or 4 years old

[Patrick Malseed]

Hi Ollie,
Your reply can only be regarded as fanciful rather than factual.
Obviously you are not working in the aircraft industry.
Aircraft unfortunately do go "tech" from time to time. All aircraft not just A380's.
My initial question was what caused the delay. Maybe someone close to fleet support at Qantas knows why.

[Ollie Menkens]

sorry everyone but what i have read on the EK, Qf and other sources there have been some problems with the older builds i do know all aircraft have problems


sorry to you all A380 lovers out there

[David Knudsen]

Hi Ollie, can you provide a link to the articles you've read about early frames having reliability issues? I'd be interested to find out more about this.

[Ollie Menkens]

http://www.theqantassource.com/


here is the actual breakdown

QANTAS A380 VH-OQD arrived into Sydney as QF2 from London Heathrow and Dubai this morning, then turned around to operate yesterday’s delayed QF1 Sydney – Dubai – London Heathrow as QF1D.

[Zac M]

I don't see your point here Ollie, given the amount these things fly they are bound to break eventually, people at my work like to point out that the Q400s always break, but if you think about the fact they do up to 10 flights a day and they'll maybe break once a month I reckon thats pretty solid!

At the end of the day an aircraft is just a piece of machinery, it's bound to break eventually, the A380 is no different to the Q400, it's bound to break eventually and saying that it is unreliable just because they break from time to time is silly!