flight delays

No cause for celebration. An air stewardess who released a champagne cork into a plane's ceiling inadvertently caused a seven hour delay for passengers after the aircraft was forced to ground, according to reports. The flight from Britain to Turkey had to be diverted after a hard-hitting cork...

Oz is normally punctual in and out of SYD but that is not the case today, with OZ602 (operated by A333 HL8259), the 0930 hours flight taking off at 1152 on Monday 17 August 2015 and hence not due into ICN until about 2100 in lieu of the usual 1900 hours.

ZL422 from SYD to NTL this morning (Wed 29 July 2015) has just taken off from SYD at 0959 - it is meant to depart at 0910. While some passengers have luggage and will have connected from other flights, for all but the most time sensitive it would be better to travel by train and enjoy the...

CZ321 into MEL this morning (Sunday 24 May 2015) that normally arrives at 0840 has been delayed until 1123, probab;ly another 'victim' of the extensive flight (and ATC) delays due to bad weather in the Hong Kong SAR and environs. as there is only one CZ flight today in and out of MEL, the latter...

As very kindly advised by AFF member eminere in the Qantas delays and cancellations thread, but also placed here as it is a matter primarily for Fiji Airways (although it affects QF codeshare passengers, which was eminere's excellent, thoughtful point): Aircraft Affected by Tarmac Incident A...

A380 9V-SKK has only just left SYD (taking off at 1248) on the 1115 hours SQ232 to SIN, so it is likely to be at least an hour late into SIN.

QR may not be one of the higher profile airlines flying to and from Oz as it only runs between Doha and Melbourne, and Doha and Perth. Tonight's QR904 into MEL is running an expected 134 minutes late with arrival likely at 2339. QR905 in the opposite direction will be delayed from 2255 until a...

Today's CA176, the 1020 from SYD to PVG did not depart until 1516. While the bad weather in SYD would have been unhelpful, this may also have been at least partly due to fog in Shanghai overnight as CA175 had not arrived until a claimed 1436 this afternoon. A 40 minute turnaround for this A332...

Hi all, has anyone been stitched up with the apocalyptic weather? Are qantas pushing everyone forward? I'm supposed to be flying to Brisbane this arvo.

TZ5 departed OOL about an hour late this morning (B772 9V-OTE) so is now expected to arrive SIN at 1610, 50 minutes late.

CX105 from HKG to MEL is significantly delayed and not due in until 1515 in lieu of 1130. The 1420 hours return working, CX104 is shown as a revised 1630 departure but this may be just a little optimistic.

Interesting opinion piece about haredi (ultra-Orthodox) male Jewish passengers refusing to sit next to female passengers. The writer wants these guys arrested... A bit drastic but maybe they should be booted off the flight. I wonder what would happen if this happened in OZ. It's Time To Arrest...

I don't know why, but in the last few days Tigerair's Australian domestic flights have been pretty punctual - at least the sample that I have observed. However this is not true of Monday 29 December 2014's TT259, the 1610 from SYD to MEL that took off at 1808 and is expected to arrive MEL at...

Today's LA1300 for AKL and SCL took off from SYD at 0947. it should have been off blocks at 0700, so that makes it about two and a half hours late. LA may be lesser known but it receives some good write ups from travel writers (albeit that sometimes their tickets are paid for by the airline...

MU737 from PVG to MEL is 97 minutes late this morning (Sunday 28 December 2014) and is not forecast to arrive until 1127. MU738 remains publicly shown as meeting its timetabled 1200 departure from MEL back to PVG but this is impossible. A332 B-5931 is the plane.

AirAsiaX seems to have fairly good punctuality into and out of Australia. Today a holiday extra is operating, with flight D7216 having been timetabled into MEL at 0925 and D7217 back to KUL at 1040. However this special working is running late and will not arrive MEL until 1525 with departure...

Once again, flight GA716 from CGK (due to arrive MEL at 0900 this morning, Friday 26 December 2014) and the return GA717 from MEL to DPS have been cancelled. This has occurred at least three times in the last few weeks. Is it due to low bookings or unavailability of a plane, and hence GA...

Our Jetstar (Denpasar- Melb) flight is delayed by around 5 hours, now departing at 4.30am. Annoying but I certainly understand that these things happen. We are traveling up the front of the plane, which I am hoping makes things a tad easier. I have a couple of questions- Will the lounge Jetstar...

Air India is one of a tiny number of foreign airlines to operate triangular routings within Australia, in its case either DEL - SYD - MEL - DEL or the reverse. It operates daily to Oz so travellers can pick a day each way to avoid transiting via the other Australian airport. This morning AI302...

China Airlines is a long established airline that has a relatively low profile in Oz despite the economic success of Taiwan, which has a similar population to Australia's albeit in a far smaller geographical area. The CI SYD - AKL -SYD (CI51/51) and December to March seasonal SYD - CHC...