how often does QF adjust flight times?
Feb 24, 2016, 9:11 pm
#1
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how often does QF adjust flight times?
Specifically, QF94.
Is the time of departure updated/changed monthly, quarterly, etc?
I now have a misconnect by a handful of minutes, but if the schedule only updates every six months, don't need to bother checking daily until my departure.
Thanks
Is the time of departure updated/changed monthly, quarterly, etc?
I now have a misconnect by a handful of minutes, but if the schedule only updates every six months, don't need to bother checking daily until my departure.
Thanks
Feb 24, 2016, 9:20 pm
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As a minimum QF does change timetables with Aust daylight saving changeover. And the same in other countries with daylight saving where QF fly to/from.
QF publish a pdf timetable. Seems to be about every 30 days. But no idea if flight times change or just published
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
QF publish a pdf timetable. Seems to be about every 30 days. But no idea if flight times change or just published
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
Feb 24, 2016, 9:42 pm
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As a minimum QF does change timetables with Aust daylight saving changeover. And the same in other countries with daylight saving where QF fly to/from.
QF publish a pdf timetable. Seems to be about every 30 days. But no idea if flight times change or just published
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
QF publish a pdf timetable. Seems to be about every 30 days. But no idea if flight times change or just published
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
Feb 24, 2016, 10:57 pm
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Airlines change flight times all the time as demand and capacity requirements change. Normally much more higher frequency routes. These sorts of changes are normally minor (eg, cancel one flight, adjust the times of the surrounding flights slightly. Change aircraft between 737 and A330, adjust times accordingly).
The major changes tend to be seasonal (winter/summer) and as different timezones enter/exit daylight saving.
It's not so much time changes that you should check on often. The airline should tell you about any time changes anyway (though some airlines are better at that then others). It's aircraft changes that many people check for often. The airlines won't tell you about these, and you could end up with different seats even between different aircraft of the same type.
The major changes tend to be seasonal (winter/summer) and as different timezones enter/exit daylight saving.
It's not so much time changes that you should check on often. The airline should tell you about any time changes anyway (though some airlines are better at that then others). It's aircraft changes that many people check for often. The airlines won't tell you about these, and you could end up with different seats even between different aircraft of the same type.
Feb 25, 2016, 1:21 am
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Case in point, I've had significantly shortened AA domestic connections (2 hrs) which haven't been notified. Pure chance I checked and saved a crisis. DIY bookings that we are doing need close monitoring quite regularly.
Feb 25, 2016, 5:58 am
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I believe that this is an international flight.
As Mwenenzi says, there are broadly two sets of schedules every year - although it's one for each of the two IATA scheduling seasons rather than specifically to do with Australian daylight saving time. There will be many one-hour adjustments in the timetable within any scheduling season if daylight saving time changes on a date within the season, either at the origin or the destination, but typically this is merely a local time adjustment, and the GMT/UTC times for the flight remain the same.
Many airlines have burst of activity a couple of months or so before the start of each season when the international schedules are finalised. After that, they tend to be fairly stable.
Of course, events can intervene and make further adjustments necessary. But IME once that schedule-change period has been and gone for any scheduling season, such adjustments are less frequent than for those seen, for example, on US domestic flights.
When is your flight?
As Mwenenzi says, there are broadly two sets of schedules every year - although it's one for each of the two IATA scheduling seasons rather than specifically to do with Australian daylight saving time. There will be many one-hour adjustments in the timetable within any scheduling season if daylight saving time changes on a date within the season, either at the origin or the destination, but typically this is merely a local time adjustment, and the GMT/UTC times for the flight remain the same.
Many airlines have burst of activity a couple of months or so before the start of each season when the international schedules are finalised. After that, they tend to be fairly stable.
Of course, events can intervene and make further adjustments necessary. But IME once that schedule-change period has been and gone for any scheduling season, such adjustments are less frequent than for those seen, for example, on US domestic flights.
When is your flight?
Feb 25, 2016, 8:07 am
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OP here. That's exactly what happened in my case. Hoping now to be able to connect again, but would need a slight schedule adjustment almost ASAP.
Feb 25, 2016, 8:09 am
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I believe that this is an international flight.
As Mwenenzi says, there are broadly two sets of schedules every year - although it's one for each of the two IATA scheduling seasons rather than specifically to do with Australian daylight saving time. There will be many one-hour adjustments in the timetable within any scheduling season if daylight saving time changes on a date within the season, either at the origin or the destination, but typically this is merely a local time adjustment, and the GMT/UTC times for the flight remain the same.
Many airlines have burst of activity a couple of months or so before the start of each season when the international schedules are finalised. After that, they tend to be fairly stable.
Of course, events can intervene and make further adjustments necessary. But IME once that schedule-change period has been and gone for any scheduling season, such adjustments are less frequent than for those seen, for example, on US domestic flights.
When is your flight?
As Mwenenzi says, there are broadly two sets of schedules every year - although it's one for each of the two IATA scheduling seasons rather than specifically to do with Australian daylight saving time. There will be many one-hour adjustments in the timetable within any scheduling season if daylight saving time changes on a date within the season, either at the origin or the destination, but typically this is merely a local time adjustment, and the GMT/UTC times for the flight remain the same.
Many airlines have burst of activity a couple of months or so before the start of each season when the international schedules are finalised. After that, they tend to be fairly stable.
Of course, events can intervene and make further adjustments necessary. But IME once that schedule-change period has been and gone for any scheduling season, such adjustments are less frequent than for those seen, for example, on US domestic flights.
When is your flight?
QF94 shows the same departure time for the next 330 days.
Feb 25, 2016, 8:17 am
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If my maths are right, that makes it about early May?
If so, your flight is in northern summer 2016. That season starts on 27 March 2016, which is less than 5 weeks away. I reckon that any schedule changing that QF was going to do would have been done by now, so personally I would be working on the presumption that the time of your flight in early May will not now change.
If so, your flight is in northern summer 2016. That season starts on 27 March 2016, which is less than 5 weeks away. I reckon that any schedule changing that QF was going to do would have been done by now, so personally I would be working on the presumption that the time of your flight in early May will not now change.
Feb 25, 2016, 8:44 am
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If my maths are right, that makes it about early May?
If so, your flight is in northern summer 2016. That season starts on 27 March 2016, which is less than 5 weeks away. I reckon that any schedule changing that QF was going to do would have been done by now, so personally I would be working on the presumption that the time of your flight in early May will not now change.
If so, your flight is in northern summer 2016. That season starts on 27 March 2016, which is less than 5 weeks away. I reckon that any schedule changing that QF was going to do would have been done by now, so personally I would be working on the presumption that the time of your flight in early May will not now change.
