Nearly all of us have been at the airport one time or another and had a flight cancelled, or re-scheduled on us. Causing a delay of a few hours or more or even the next day.
A friends flight on Virgin DJ1593 MEL-NTL (Newcastle) on 25/1/12 was cancelled and Virgin originally re-routed them via Brisbane, but has now moved them to Friday from Wednesday.
Another friend had a Qantas flight PER-MEL cancelled yesterday (safety issue ??) but got on a later flight thanks to Qantas and only a few hours delayed. A few more beers in the QP.
Events like these are not such a problem coming out of ports like MEL, BNE and SYD where there are flights every 30mins, but more so for the distant or regional ports where you could face quite a wait if they have to re-schedule another aircraft etc. Unless there are major multiple cancanions, the SYD-MEL morning/evening shuffle flights could be left out of it.
My Idea is a thread for Qantas and one for Virgin where we can note any cancllations and discuss if any recompense was made by the airline in the way of food vouchers, overnight hotel accommodation or flight vouchers. There is a little of this information spread around the forum already, but doesn't have a dedicated topic of it's own.
A bit of this information gets around the Twitter world. But it's quite hard to track and often full of unhelpful language.
Perhaps we can keep track by quoting flight number and date ie; DJ357 27/1/12 This should help to keep discussions in some sort of order, and help with the search function.
Any one think this is a good idea? Where shall we put it?
A friends flight on Virgin DJ1593 MEL-NTL (Newcastle) on 25/1/12 was cancelled and Virgin originally re-routed them via Brisbane, but has now moved them to Friday from Wednesday.
Another friend had a Qantas flight PER-MEL cancelled yesterday (safety issue ??) but got on a later flight thanks to Qantas and only a few hours delayed. A few more beers in the QP.
Events like these are not such a problem coming out of ports like MEL, BNE and SYD where there are flights every 30mins, but more so for the distant or regional ports where you could face quite a wait if they have to re-schedule another aircraft etc. Unless there are major multiple cancanions, the SYD-MEL morning/evening shuffle flights could be left out of it.
My Idea is a thread for Qantas and one for Virgin where we can note any cancllations and discuss if any recompense was made by the airline in the way of food vouchers, overnight hotel accommodation or flight vouchers. There is a little of this information spread around the forum already, but doesn't have a dedicated topic of it's own.
A bit of this information gets around the Twitter world. But it's quite hard to track and often full of unhelpful language.
Perhaps we can keep track by quoting flight number and date ie; DJ357 27/1/12 This should help to keep discussions in some sort of order, and help with the search function.
Any one think this is a good idea? Where shall we put it?
