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Hundreds of Qantas passengers who were stranded in Singapore for days after their flight to Sydney was repeatedly delayed, in a debacle complicated by earlier damage to another Qantas plane, are on their way back to Australia.
QF82, which was supposed to leave Singapore for Sydney at 8.45pm on Monday, finally left at 12.55am on Thursday, with the plane due to arrive at 10.10am.
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Passengers had earlier been told they would fly home at 9am on Wednesday, but that flight was cancelled.
A note given to passengers said the A380 they were meant to fly on was still experiencing mechanical issues.
“While our engineers continue to work on the original aircraft in Singapore, your flight will now be operated by a replacement aircraft,” it said.
It came after an aerobridge rammed into a Qantas A380 superjumbo engine at Sydney Airport, delaying a long-haul flight to Johannesburg by 21 hours for hundreds of passengers at the weekend.
Several other flights leaving Singapore this week were also delayed or cancelled.
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