JQ216 interesting flight path

[Mattg]

Last night's Jetstar flight from Auckland to Melbourne took a bit of a detour last night, flying as far north as Lord Howe Island. Looks like it added around half an hour to the flight time.

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Based on the other recent flights for VH-VQC it looks like this may be another case of the aircraft needing to be within a certain distance of a diversion airport.

 

[jrfsp]

Looks like routing close to NLK which is the standard path for non ETDO trans tasman flights.