flight delays

Being stuck in a plane on the tarmac for hours is relatively uncommon in Australia, but was common in the United States with its different climatic conditions. Today, two outbound United Airlines flights from Oz to the USA have been cancelled but it was unscheduled stops on the apron in CBR and...

JetGo is a new regular public transport operator between SYD and GLT so it is good as always to see more competition (from a traveller's point of view, not investors'.) However today's JG71, the 0740 ex GLT, is due in SYD at 1457, almost four and a half hours late compared with scheduled...

EK would doubtless consider itself to be a punctual airline. Unfortunately it isn't immune from weather related delays. Sunday 7 December 2014's EK419 (SYD to BKK and DXB) operated by A380 A6-EBY should depart at 1945 but tonight crept out ahead of curfew at 2256. It took off at 2309. The...

Due to storms in SYD, NZ105 (ZK-NZE) from AKL to SYD is deviating into MEL, and should arrive MEL at about 1850, 70 minutes after it was due into SYD. This means a SYD arrival after 2030 even if the flight has only a brief stop in MEL. The latter is busy as one QF flight (QF28) ex SCL has also...

I surmise that due to heavy rain or similar in SYD, EY454 (due into SYD at 1850, operated by B773 A6-ETO appears to have been in a holding pattern over Crookwell and to the east of Booroowa, NSW (near Goulburn NSW) and has now deviated to MEL where at 1950 it is about to land. The aircraft had...

Just curious as to what members' views are on missed transfers due to flight delays. QR flight out of LHR delayed by about 2 hours which resulted in a missed QR transfer from DOH into SIN, which makes it a 3 hour stopover. Was given 3 QR15 meal vouchers and that's it. Any thoughts on...

Sydney is down to one runway with the wind, expect network wide delays tonight if this continues. INFO U. START APPROVAL REQUIRED ON FREQ 127.6, CONTACT 10 MIN BEFORE READY TO PUSH BACK OR TAXI FOR START TIME. TMP: 18. VIS: GT 10KM.WIND: 240-270/20-35 XW MAX 17 KTS, RWY 25. FOR RWY 34L...

Perth based AFFer mannej made the excellent suggestion that new threads should be commenced to discuss delays and cancellations affecting passengers of airlines other than QF. With VA, the scheduled 1000 from MEL to CHC (VA150) has been delayed until 2215 this evening, thus turning it into an...

Some one said something about runway works? why the hell would you do this on a Friday night! who are these idiots????

AFF member mannej made the excellent suggestion that other airlines apart from QF should be featured in threads about flight delays and cancellations. I am therefore commencing one about JQ, and may do so for others in time. Today's wet weather and extensive cloud cover across much of...

For about 2hrs now Trip Case and BBT have been informing me of an increasing delay to tonight's 238. The VA website insists this flight is operating to time on the Flight Status page. Now out to a 50min delay... Who's correct - would rather continue working in the Office, if possible...

Hi all- I was booked on QF9 from MEL to LHR on 16 March. To cut a long story short, the fuel pump on Engine 1 failed, so the flight was initially delayed from 1615 to 1645, then to 1930. Boarding commenced at 2000, but the flight was then cancelled at 2200 as the sealant used for the repairs...

Earlier today, on QF81 SYD-SIN, we were advised shortly prior to our scheduled departure that our flight would in fact be delayed due to the fact that the rostered first officer had left his passport at home, and so they had to find another FO... Thankfully, one was on standby, or some other...

Looks like some ATC equipment has broken down (ba.com/heathrow.com) causing many flights to be delayed or cancelled. Make sure you check before you go to the airport, and understand the EU compensation rules to know your entitlements.

This is feedback that I've just submitted to Qantas customer care. The situation seems to be one where Qantas should/could have avoided the cost of accomodating me for a night at late notice. Should I have been more pushy on the first flight about getting them to contact someone? Or should...

QF1 scheduled for 17:00 departure delayed to 20:30 tonight, 08 Nov. (My son's on that flight to LHR via DXB).

SYD appears to be on Mode 13 this afternoon (arrivals from the east, departures to the west) so not unnaturally with one of the peak periods during the day fast approaching - 1800 to 1900 hours - there are plenty of delays. The temperature at SYD is 33.2 with a westerly wind of 35 kilometres an...

Hopefully i can get some help from all you knowledgeable AFFer's? I have a booking LAX-MEL (via several cities... look out for the thread i put in the QFF section soon! ;) at the end of January. However i will be up in Canada snowboarding at Kicking Horse (near Banff). The obvious choice is to...

On Qantas' flight status page on its website, Monday 1 July 2013's QF9 from Melbourne to Dubai and London Heathrow is shown as delayed from its usual departure of 1525 hours to 0730 on Tuesday 2 July, meaning an arrival at LHR at about 2145 on Tuesday night local time if it manages to get away...