How many a380s does QANTAS have on order?

How many a380s does QANTAS have on order?

I have heard from sources 8, others say just 2.

Qantas ordered 20 A380's. They have received 12. The remainder have been deferred. Not sure as to when, but factoring QF receiving them anytime soon.

I saw on one source QANTAS should have 2 added by the end of 2015 with the remaining 6 coming from 2018. not quite sure if that's true though. I just wasn't too sure about it so I decided to ask it here.

This is totally incorrect. I can say 100% that Qantas won't have any additional A380s this year or for the foreseeable future. 

I'm pretty sure they will, 12 seems like too small a number and every source i'v seen says QF plans on having 20 eventually.

Definately won't be any new A380's this year. More likely to see a B787 in QF colours before another A380.

Yeah, after thinking about it they'll probably start getting the rest of the a380s from mid 2016 or 2017 about the same time we see the first 787s. I wonder what routes would be added, theres been rumors about SFO being added, a possible route to Berlin and daily services from SYD - YVR. i'd like to see an a380 route from Perth maybe, PER - LHR via FRA or IST would be interesting, but I don't see it happening.

If emirates can't fill an A380 out of Perth, don't expect Qantas to try it.

PER - LHR via FRA isn't possible and Qantas have seemingly put their kangaroo eggs in  the Dubai basket so can't see IST becoming a stopover. 

*wouldn't be factoring 

A QF press release in August last year says the final eight A380s are deferred with an ongoing review of delivery dates .....

I hope they arrive before they start to retire the 744ERs.

QF Really need to firm up delivery dates and start usining them on current and new routes. SYD - DWF should be daily. SYD - HKG Daily on an A380 and even SYD - HND needs to be upgraded to an A380.

Asia should be all a330/787 only, maybe with an a380 during peak seasons.

DFW should be daily during peak seasons.

QANTAS needs the other 8 a380s to replace the 744 on routes such as BNE - LAX and SYD - VYR and use on possible routes such as SYD - SFO and SYD - FRA

The 787 will probably replace the 744 on routes like SYD - HND and SYD - JNB   

I like the A380 and big birds have their place. But places like SFO etc would be better served by a 787 than an A380 for QF. Even BNE-LAX may be better off on a 787 as this plane can continue to JFK (whereas a A380 probably provides too much capacity into JFK). The reduction in seats to LAX could be offset by a 3-4wkly BNE-DFW on a 787.

I don't doubt that QF would be working towards making DFW daily year round, as its a key hub for AA. In my opinion, the only A380's QF absolutely needs is another 2 (as I understand the more recent models would be able to do DFW-SYD with a full load year round).

I doubt we will ever see a QF plane back at FRA (at least whilst the EK deal remains). QF's strength is to the East. Realistically, the best we can hope for is PER-DXB 787 service to connect with QF flights to LHR.

Agreed that Asia should be primarily A330 etc, but HND may be different as its unlikely to ever get to a more than daily service. On the other side, HKG would be better served with a double daily from Sydney as opposed to a single 747.

Also I've mentioned it before, but it would not suprise me for QF and Airbus to do a deal to convert some or all of QF's remaining A380 orders to A350's.