LTN Phobia

Posting on the off chance that you have been on one of the affected flights but you are not aware of it.
The government of New South Wales, Australia, are asking you to self-isolate if you have been seated in the following rows on any of the QF flights listed below.
--------------------------------------- Departure date Arrival date Affected rows
QF02 Qantas Singapore ​- Sydney 27 February 2020 28 February 2020 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 31, 32, 33
QF1509 Qantas Sydney to Canberra 28 February 2020 28 February 2020 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
QF82 Qantas Singapore - Sydney 29 February 2020 1 March 2020 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
QF12 Qantas LaX to Sydney 7 March 2020 9 March 2020 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
QF74 Qantas SanFrancisco/Sydney 8 March 2020 10 March 2020 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Sorry about the poor formatting!

Source document:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infect...s-flights.aspx

In fact, here is QF's own list of affected flights, which is more extensive as it covers flights other than those into NSW as well:
https://www.qantas.com/au/en/travel-...rus-cases.html

(I am posting this because governments often have difficulties contacting people when some have booked via a travel agent and not all the details have been passed onto airlines, and/or their mobile number in their system is not in use while overseas. I also believe that the government departments do not always try to contact all the passengers on each flight.)

nancypants

Thanks LTN Phobia

og

I wasn’t aware that QF operated a 380 with rows 6 and 7.

serfty

That the Crew Gossip Lounge Forward Galley ...

nancypants

they’re seemingly going 2 rows each way but by someone not very familiar with planes so from this we can surmise the infected person was in row 5, what’s behind row 5?

og

Door 2, then galley/ gossip area, then hell on earth (whY).

Doddles

Notable that most cases on international flights are from USA, not Asia or Europe. Possibly indicating much higher rates of infection in USA than commonly thought? Or worse pre-boarding screening? Something else?

boerne

Almost certainly infected in US and flying to SYD etc. current to March 11. About to cancel SFO to SYD late march, because California apparently has given up and is just mitigating now. UCSF predicts it will get really bad. See my post from UCSF about us being a week behind Italy.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32178846-post3864.html

36902BRF

I say this as an American but our testing is way behind where it needs to be. If you don't test you won't find cases. Our testing requirements in many states also seems biased towards using the limited testing on those with recent international travel so a lot of community spread cases may be going undetected.

mikalee

Interestingly I count 13 of the cases are in premium seats out of a total of 26 cases on QF. So 50% in First or Business class when those seats only make up 15-20% of the actual seats on the plane at most.

Wonder why that is?

m0hamed

Most likely more travel movements which means more exposure to other travellers.