Power Outage at MEL

[TheInsider]

Blackout at Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport has been hit by a power outage, which is affecting airport operations.
On its Twitter feed the airport said: "Major power outage has affected airport operations. Under investigation and will endeavour to rectify services ASAP."
Comment is being sought from Melbourne Airport and Customs Australia. It is believed the power outage is affecting Customs operations and is believed to have sent three of the four terminals at the site into darkness.
But Qantas said its passengers were not affected.
''From a Qantas perspective it's not impacting our services at this stage. We've got back-up power so that's allowing us to continue our operations,'' a Qantas spokeswoman said.
The outage meant the state government postponed an announcement at Tullamarine today.
Melbourne Airport's website appears to have crashed this morning as people seek out information about what is happening.
Transport Minister Terry Mulder was scheduled to open a new drive-on ramp at the airport's long-term car park at 10.30am, but a spokeswoman said the event had been delayed.

More fun and games at the third world airport that is MEL T2 and T3

 

[Ewing]

Photos from a friend who is there (Tim Malone)

 

[Ausbt]

And people are still queuing up at McRonalds! Are they mad?

 

[SeatBackForward]

And people are still queuing up at McRonalds! Are they mad?

Mcdonalds must figure their customers don't actually need to see what they're eating?

 

[samh004]

They just said on the news power is back up, but they’re still trying to boot up systems, speculation of a flooded generator, and the Jetstar queue stretches the length of the terminal…

 

[Ewing]

and the Jetstar queue stretches the length of the terminal…

When does it not stretch the length of the terminal?

 

[SeatBackForward]

They just said on the news power is back up, but they’re still trying to boot up systems, speculation of a flooded generator, and the Jetstar queue stretches the length of the terminal…

And thats just their complaints desk?

 

[anat0l]

Wait - how does Qantas have a backup system that is independent of the airport? Or is the NoNews being inflated a bit too much?

Saying that - where are the airport backup systems that would've provided temporary respite and some notification? (Same thing with the "cable cut" which knocked out Virgin for a good amount of time last year at the same airport.)


Australian airports: we're not only at the lowest point in the globe, but we're the lowest common denominator..... and we don't give a flying ****.

 

[mavrick9]

Anyone stuck at MEL care to give us a update?

 

[whatmeworry]

Power outages seem to happen with regular occurrence at MEL.