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Old 19th October 2016, 05:00 PM
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VH-OJT returned to service operating QF128 from HKG this morning. Possibly replaced in maintenance by VH-OEI which operated QF127 to HKG yesterday.
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Old 25th October 2016, 06:47 PM
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Does anyone know what is wrong with VH-OEE? It arrived into MEL from HKG on 23/10 but hasn't flown since & QF127 was cancelled today perhaps indicating a shortage of 747's.
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Old 25th October 2016, 07:46 PM
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From the ACARS logs it looks as though VH-OEE operated QF30 from HKG - MEL arriving yesterday 24/10/16. Normally the aircraft then operates two return flights to LAX on Monday and Wednesday before returning to the HKG route on Friday, Saturday and Sunday ex MEL. The timetable of arrivals and departures for QF29/30 and QF127/128 into HKG does allow for a changeover of 744s to occur in HKG on either of these three nights.

According to the QANTAS timetable it looks as though QF95 was not scheduled to operate yesterday and the same with the return QF96. Probably VH-OEE will operate QF95 tomorrow 26/10/16 as normal.

I can't see that this has a bearing on the cancellation of QF127/128 today and the return flight tomorrow. If there was a shortage of 744s often an A330 is substituted. However, QF117 did operate to HKG as scheduled today.

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Old 25th October 2016, 11:40 PM
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A QF B744 was noted at MEL conducting engine runs today (Tuesday) - given scheduling etc I've no doubt this aircraft was OEE.

Agree with James, unlikely it's anything more than a coincidence that today's 127 was cancelled, and it sounds like Monday's 95 was a scheduled non-ops. OEE could not have been scheduled to operate Monday's 95 and Tuesday's 127, it's not physically possible without positioning the aircraft empty LAX-SYD... and even then it'd be quite tight.
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Old 26th October 2016, 01:42 PM
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VH-OEE is operating QF95 from MEL to LAX today. It flew over close to SYD about 20 minutes ago. So, the aircraft is fully serviceable after a two days rest when QF95/96 did not operate.
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Old 17th November 2016, 09:04 AM
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Does anyone know why VH-OEF hasn't flown since arriving into MEL from HKG? Technical issues? Seemed weird that OEI positioned to MEL instead of SYD after returning from maintenance.
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Old 14th December 2016, 05:43 AM
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How many B747s could we expect to leave at the end of 2017 with the introduction of the 787 replacing the B747 on MEL-LAX?
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Old 14th December 2016, 06:02 AM
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Pretty much only one. If that.

The B744 operating out of MEL currently does 2 LAX flights a week, plus 3x MEL-HKG. This only requires one aircraft.

If, say, the other 4x MEL-HKG per week went to he B744, that would free up 4/7 of a line of A330 flying for something else. So it's not necessarily that a B744 is out just because the B789 takes over MEL-LAX.
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Old 14th December 2016, 01:51 PM
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Also, late 2017 is the peak travel season (Dec 2017 to Aus Day 2018) so they may keep extra aircraft in the fleet until the peak as passed.

Meaning, the first aircraft may now go until Feb 2018.
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Old 14th December 2016, 03:38 PM
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It may be peak, but by that stage oil pricing could also see ops by 744s as very expensive, which may be a significant factor.
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