Holidays and Airport 'Chaos' since COVID

jase05 said:
April 14th they are expecting ADL to have its busiest day ever with the whole AFL round played here and the LIV golf tournament.
I believe at the moment we are sitting on about 115% of flights domestically compared to pre Covid.
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I think I read our tourism is well above precovid levels in SA
 
I think the consensus is the chaos is over.

At least the thread as now been renamed as per my suggestion, but I’d say the topic is dead.
 
What's the story right now? When will the backlog be cleared? I have a flight in 2 weeks Monday, just slightly concerned.
 
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Berlin said:
And bad weather on some cruise ship in Florida has to do with holiday traffic at Australian airports exactly... WHAT???
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Calm down. I actually posted this in the chat thread and a mod has moved it so no idea whats going on in this Covid thread

Geez......
 
Denali said:
Calm down. I actually posted this in the chat thread and a mod has moved it so no idea whats going on in this Covid thread

Geez......
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I'm super calm, are you? Just found this clickbait video of some cruise ship to be in the totally wrong place.
 
Back to topic: Sydney international is a mess today. Endless queues at Qantas checkin, even Business class queue went over the actual queue line and the little First check in area had people on the floor waiting. Apparently, something with the passport system was wrong which also explains why then afterwards, the e-gates fir emigration did not work either. Business and First class passengers had to join the same queue as the great unwashed for manual clearing- no mercy. At least that process went rather quickly.

Now at the Flounge and it’s a hot mess- packed to the rafters and a lot of staff I’ve never seen who clearly need more training. Food great though and the friendly front desk attendant “shuffled some things around” for me to get me a massage appointment still. Bliss!
 
Berlin said:
Back to topic: Sydney international is a mess today.
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Yes, reports of the end of chaos appear to have been exaggerated, as the saying goes :(

Border Force IT outage the latest headache for air travellers

International travellers are facing massive check-in queues at major airports due to an outage of the Australian Border Force passenger processing system.

The system, which is the interface between the ABF and airlines, went down about 10.30am on Thursday and is yet to be restored.

An ABF spokesman said the system outage was affecting the advanced passenger processing system at all international check-in points.
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Brisbane and Melbourne Airports confirmed travellers were facing long queues at check-in desks, with some waiting close to 90 minutes to get through.
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RooFlyer said:
Yes, reports of the end of chaos appear to have been exaggerated, as the saying goes :(

Border Force IT outage the latest headache for air travellers
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Original topic name implied the delays were due covid / post-covid staffing issues. It has since been changed.

As we got through the Easter holidays without chaos, I think we can draw a line under covid (and related issues) and just call this general holiday/weather/it/atc-related chaos.
 
justinbrett said:
Original topic name implied the delays were due covid / post-covid staffing issues. It has since been changed.
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You got the topic changed, so now we talk here about 'ordinary' airport chaos post covid 🙂. Like today in SYD, also MEL and BNE.

With Sydney and it's weather 'airport chaos' isn't going away anytime soon.
 
RooFlyer said:
You got the topic changed, so now we talk here about 'ordinary' airport chaos post covid 🙂. Like today in SYD, also MEL and BNE.

With Sydney and it's weather 'airport chaos' isn't going away anytime soon.
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Yes I agree, but you referenced my comments about the topic being dead, which was a different topic.

Just making sure my comments aren’t taken out of context. Of course I would not be stupid enough to declare the end of airport chaos.
 
justinbrett said:
As we got through the Easter holidays without chaos, I think we can draw a line under covid (and related issues) and just call this general holiday/weather/it/atc-related chaos.
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I don't think we can draw a line under covid quite yet. Staff levels (airline, airport, ATC, other) / experience/competence are down, aircraft fleets (plus reliability / maintenance / support) are down, general facilities are down, attitudes are changed (staff/pax). It's a dog's breakfast (but not my dogs, they are very tidy).

Covid still has a lot to answer for IMO.
 
Poor management has a lot to answer for as to why quite a few of the organisations involved have staffing issues. Airservices the first cab off the rank for that.
 
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