Melburnian1
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The BITRE's latest month's figures show shockingly high cancellation rates and heaps of late running for our four major domestic airlines:
Northbound on the MEL - SYD route, QF cancelled 145 flights, or 13.2 per cent of its published timetable. TT cancelled 11.6 per cent, JQ 6.7 and VA 6.1 per cent. Overall, 9.8 per cent of flights northbound received the chop.
Comparison to other modes brings challenges but overseas on many high speed rail routes, hardly any cancellations occur. I gather the major exception is when there are very high winds.
Of the MEL - SYD in that direction flights that operated, overall 32.9 per cent were at least 15 minutes late. 29.2 per cent of these remaining QF northbounds were 'officially late,, while the worst was JQ with an appalling 41.4 per cent of northbounds "officially late."
Southbound (SYD - MEL) was also poor with VA the best when it came to punctual flights, but it still had 37.2 per cent of its flights - more than one in three - arriving more than 15 minutes late. QF had 38.4 per cent at least this late, while QF cancelled 12.8 per cent of its timetable, more than double VA's cancellation rate of 5.4 per cent in this direction.
Overall southbound on this busiest of Australian domestic routes, 240 flights were cancelled - 9.4 per cent of those scheduled.
BNE - SYD and return was better for cancellations at around 2.2 per cent, but not a huge amount better for punctuality.
Weather(winter) can be blamed for some, and others may be cancelled when there's a QF or VA 15 minute published frequency, but as I recently showed in the individual delays thread, sometimes two in a row are cancelled during peaks meaning a 45 minute gap in frequency. ATC personnel shortages, aircraft failures, lack of patronage (declining on key routes, so flights are "consolidated" - lovely word) and aircraft and/or crew not in position are a sample of other possible reasons.
Overall around Oz (varying by route) 26.1 per cent of flights were at least 15 minutes late while cancellations were 2.5 per cent overall.
A poor performance but until we get high speed rail between our three largest capitals (and ABX?WGA/CBR/NTL/CFS/OOL in between), the options for travellers are put up with it or don't travel, since on most routes (CBR - SYD a notable exception) surface travel is not a realistic or desired alternative for most.
Northbound on the MEL - SYD route, QF cancelled 145 flights, or 13.2 per cent of its published timetable. TT cancelled 11.6 per cent, JQ 6.7 and VA 6.1 per cent. Overall, 9.8 per cent of flights northbound received the chop.
Comparison to other modes brings challenges but overseas on many high speed rail routes, hardly any cancellations occur. I gather the major exception is when there are very high winds.
Of the MEL - SYD in that direction flights that operated, overall 32.9 per cent were at least 15 minutes late. 29.2 per cent of these remaining QF northbounds were 'officially late,, while the worst was JQ with an appalling 41.4 per cent of northbounds "officially late."
Southbound (SYD - MEL) was also poor with VA the best when it came to punctual flights, but it still had 37.2 per cent of its flights - more than one in three - arriving more than 15 minutes late. QF had 38.4 per cent at least this late, while QF cancelled 12.8 per cent of its timetable, more than double VA's cancellation rate of 5.4 per cent in this direction.
Overall southbound on this busiest of Australian domestic routes, 240 flights were cancelled - 9.4 per cent of those scheduled.
BNE - SYD and return was better for cancellations at around 2.2 per cent, but not a huge amount better for punctuality.
Weather(winter) can be blamed for some, and others may be cancelled when there's a QF or VA 15 minute published frequency, but as I recently showed in the individual delays thread, sometimes two in a row are cancelled during peaks meaning a 45 minute gap in frequency. ATC personnel shortages, aircraft failures, lack of patronage (declining on key routes, so flights are "consolidated" - lovely word) and aircraft and/or crew not in position are a sample of other possible reasons.
Overall around Oz (varying by route) 26.1 per cent of flights were at least 15 minutes late while cancellations were 2.5 per cent overall.
A poor performance but until we get high speed rail between our three largest capitals (and ABX?WGA/CBR/NTL/CFS/OOL in between), the options for travellers are put up with it or don't travel, since on most routes (CBR - SYD a notable exception) surface travel is not a realistic or desired alternative for most.
