Longest 2017 same day delay

[Melburnian1]

In the JetGo delays and cancellations thread I posted an example this week of a 13 hour delay (an ABX - BNE flight.)

JetGo has an exceedingly small fleet - hence passengers suffer if an aircraft requires urgent repairs, or a key staff member has to suddenly go off sick.

There must be someone on AFF who can beat this 13 hour delay.

I'm referring to same day delays only - not cases where you got to the destination next day after the airline either put you up in an hotel overnight, made you sleep on the floor or outside an airport terminal or (say PER - SYD or MEL) put you on the dreaded redeye.

I'm also restricting this to Australian domestic flights.

The curfews in place at SYD, ADL and OOL make beating a 13 hour delay challenging - SYD is only 'open' for domestic flights for 17 hours a day - but some AFF member must have beaten the above example, and perhaps even on a larger airline like QF, VA, JQ or TT.

If you beat it, what was the cause of the delay? Were you satisfied with the airline's handling of the incident?

 

[kiwitripper64]

Are you lucky or unlucky to win this post?

 

[Melburnian1]

Lounge lizards flying for leisure with time up their sleeve may be winners from a long delay - free meals and booze - but JetGo patrons aren't normally given access to a lounge so they are, ahem, 'losers.'

 

[andyhui01]

From the VA delay thread. With the optus outage a couple of days ago, some VA flights ex MEL left at 0400 instead of 2300 IIRC. I am still curious what happens to the FF's in the lounge. Do they get kicked out, lounge stays open with no F&B and skeleton staff, operating as normal or put in a hotel?

 

[JohnK]

I get lots of delays but not lengthy delays.

Think the longest was ~90 minutes but even that's enough to do damage at the destination when you have other plans that are now not possible.