Nickofatlanta From Australia, joined May 2000, 1457 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 years 1 month 8 hours ago) and read 6138 times:
Hello all -
I drove past SYD on both Saturday and Sunday and noticed three UA aircraft on the ground at the same time. Does anyone know the reason for this? The first time was around 10am and the second was around 1pm. Thanks!
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (5 years 1 month 7 hours ago) and read 6106 times:
There have been a couple of threads recently regarding UA's 747 reliability and a significant number of mechanical cancellations - perhaps they are awaiting maintenance?
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Transpac787 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 3139 posts, RR: 14 Reply 5, posted (5 years 1 month 7 hours ago) and read 5979 times:
I'd have to check but I believe the third bird was on a 9XXX flight number, meaning it was an unscheduled flight. With the recent cancelation of a LAX-SYD, the domino effect of rebooked pax would have been huge, so the day you saw the three birds, two of them were operating SYD-LAX to bring the system back to normal.
Azncsa4qf744er From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 671 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 1 month 7 hours ago) and read 5934 times:
Quoting Gigneil (Reply 2): A lot of the cancellations were mandated for inspections, something that is sweeping the US right now.
LOL!!! Quite true, however not in this case for United's B744. (United didn't grounded any B744 due to FAA inspection requirement) Must of been a charter or a extended long delays.
Runway23 From US Minor Outlying Islands, joined Jan 2005, 2037 posts, RR: 39 Reply 8, posted (5 years 1 month 6 hours ago) and read 5839 times:
Quoting Transpac787 (Reply 5): I'd have to check but I believe the third bird was on a 9XXX flight number, meaning it was an unscheduled flight. With the recent cancelation of a LAX-SYD, the domino effect of rebooked pax would have been huge, so the day you saw the three birds, two of them were operating SYD-LAX to bring the system back to normal.
Actually there aren't 2 daily SYD-LAX flights but one flight to SFO and one to LAX which leave within an hour of each other.
Transpac787 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 3139 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (5 years 1 month 3 hours ago) and read 5591 times:
Quoting Runway23 (Reply 8): Actually there aren't 2 daily SYD-LAX flights but one flight to SFO and one to LAX which leave within an hour of each other.
I know, that's why I was saying there was a third 744 there, to answer the OP. UA839 (LAX-SYD) canceled a few days ago, and to prevent a total cluster f**k on the flights to/from SYD, UA sent a third 744 from LAX that day to bring the system back to normal. Again, that 3rd 744 was operating on a 9XXX flight number, meaning it was an unscheduled flight.
Midex461 From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 276 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (5 years 1 month 1 hour ago) and read 5449 times:
Quoting Runway23 (Reply 8): Actually there aren't 2 daily SYD-LAX flights but one flight to SFO and one to LAX which leave within an hour of each other.
I think you've got UA and QF confused. QF has 2 daily SYD-LAX flights plus 1 SYD-SFO that runs 5x a week. UA has only 1x to LAX and SFO.
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Runway23 From US Minor Outlying Islands, joined Jan 2005, 2037 posts, RR: 39 Reply 11, posted (5 years 1 month 1 hour ago) and read 5443 times:
Quoting Midex461 (Reply 10): I think you've got UA and QF confused. QF has 2 daily SYD-LAX flights plus 1 SYD-SFO that runs 5x a week. UA has only 1x to LAX and SFO.
CX777Fan From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 289 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (5 years 1 month ago) and read 5305 times:
A friend of mine who works the counters at SYD mentioned in passing on Sunday he'd had a shit day at work due to the knock on effect of a cancellation on either Fri or Sat. Presumably, as others have said, that would explain the third aircraft.
Slightly off topic, but I'd really like to know why I saw two NW 747s parked at SYD about two weeks ago. from memory, one 744 and one 742 - both looked to be pax aircraft. Do they get maintained in SYD for some reason? Or was there some reason for them to be chartered?
FlashFlyGuy From Australia, joined Jan 2007, 439 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (5 years 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 5039 times:
Quoting CupraIbiza (Reply 3): because 3 x UA 747 = 1 reliable 747.....
A case of feast or famine, as far as service from UA into SYD goes.
Quoting CX777Fan (Reply 14): Slightly off topic, but I'd really like to know why I saw two NW 747s parked at SYD about two weeks ago. from memory, one 744 and one 742 - both looked to be pax aircraft. Do they get maintained in SYD for some reason? Or was there some reason for them to be chartered?
Quoting Runway23 (Reply 8): Actually there aren't 2 daily SYD-LAX flights but one flight to SFO and one to LAX which leave within an hour of each other.
ElmoTheHobo From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1515 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (5 years 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1527 times:
Quoting 7673mech (Reply 17): Typical example of what is wrong with this site.
I think you're the perpetrator here.
Quoting 7673mech (Reply 17): Check your facts before you speak. United 747-400 were never part of any reinspections.
United1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5337 posts, RR: 8 Reply 20, posted (5 years 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1477 times:
Quoting Gigneil (Reply 2): A lot of the cancellations were mandated for inspections, something that is sweeping the US right now.
No they were not, UA grounded 6 or 7 747-400 for around 6 hours each to re-do an inspection after discovering that contract maintinance was using an improperly calibrated machine to do the original test. No flights were actually canceled because of it.
You may want to back off your statement a little bit as well, as even though 763mech was incorrect about UAs 744s never being reinspected, he was right on responding to Gigneil that his statement about the reasons for any cancelations was wrong.
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