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Further, he said the response from the travelling public has been encouraging since the return to Beijing was launched in October. Flight QF is scheduled as an afternoon departure from Sydney, landing just at local time. The reciprocal QF is an overnight service from Beijing, touching down in Sydney in the mid-afternoon.

The flight times appear to limit the number of connections beyond Beijing, given the late arrival. However, the mid-afternoon arrival in Sydney will ensure Chinese tourists visiting Australia will be able to connect to other Australian destinations such as Tasmania, which Joyce said was proving increasingly popular for the Chinese, as well as New Zealand.

Through Shanghai and Hong Kong we serve another 23 destinations in China. The two aircraft are also fitted with crew rest areas. It is just that at this time they are the two aircraft that have the range to get there.

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On 17 December , an Airbus A VH-QPD being operated by Qantas on a scheduled international passenger flight from Sydney to Beijing as QF was found on arrival to have freight on board which was not as documented, the effect of which was to have made the aircraft takeoff weight in excess of that permitted.

Having determined that on this occasion, there had been no actual compromise to the operational safety of the flight involved, the scope of the Investigation was thereafter confined to a detailed examination of the loading process prior to the flight. It was established that the origin of the discrepancy had been the incorrect specification of one of the three ULD pallets containing freight which had been carried on the flight.

These were initially listed as having weights of 2,kg, 2,kg and 1,kg and had been towed to a holding bay near the aircraft in preparation for loading. The Qantas Load Control Office then determined that the aircraft MTOW would be exceeded if all three ULDs were loaded and that therefore only two of the three could travel with the 1,kg pallet to be left behind. Edition 1 of the load instruction report LIR was sent from the load control office to the ramp staff allocated to undertake the loading task and the Loading Supervisor accessed this LIR using his iPad.

At about the same time, a corresponding record of the revised loading intention was sent to the operating flight crew for review and they responded with a request to remove some of the freight because of their need to carry additional fuel. To meet this requirement, load control decided to substitute one of the two heavier pallets with the lighter one which it had initially been intended not to load which required the issue of edition 2 of the LIR which specified that only the kg and kg pallets should now be loaded.

At about this time, all three ULDs were moved from the holding bay to the aircraft and within the next 10 minutes, the 2, kg and 2, kg were loaded and secured into their designated positions in accordance with edition 1 of the LIR.

Subsequently, the operating flight crew contacted the load control office to confirm the final fuel upload and confirm that a change to a lighter ULD would be required to offset the weight of the additional fuel.

Edition 2 of the LIR was then entered into the freight management system with three accompanying electronic messages from the load control office:. They then contacted the Ground Services Coordinator in the ramp office to confirm the new requirement for the heavier ULD to be exchanged with the lighter unit in accordance with edition 2 of the LIR just released.

He had then locked the forward hold door of the aircraft which provided access to position 24P. When subsequently presented to the operating flight crew and accepted by the Captain, the final loadsheet corresponded to edition 2 of the LIR.