Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Update from London 16/4 1900 GMT
The National Air Traffic Service (NATS) said flight restrictions will remain in place until at least 7am GMT on Saturday 17/4.
The QF Call Centre are indicating that flights (QF2, QF10, QF30 and QF32) from London to Sydney / Melbourne up to and including 18/4 have been cancelled - albeit these are not being shown on the qantas.com website on either Flight Status of the banner page. Assuming the airspace is open, the 1st confirmed flight I can now get out on is QF2 on 21/4.
The question I have is what will happen to the 2 * 744's from the cancelled QF2 and QF10 services on Thursday 15/4? These are presumably sitting on the ground in LHR. I did hear "unofficial" reports these two aircraft would be flown back the SYD / MEL empty as soon as the airspace open up. Therefore all passengers off cancelled services from the 15/4 onwards would be accommodated on the turnaround of QF 1, 9, 29 and 31 services coming out of Australia (whenever these resume).