Qantas delays Perth flight for 10 hours

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From
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/qantas-delays-perth-flight-for-10-hours-20090117-7jfg.html

About 300 Qantas passengers bound for Melbourne were delayed for 10 hours at Perth Domestic Airport yesterday.


The plane had been taxing on the tarmac about 11am before it had to turn back when the pilot reported a "steering problem" to passengers, 6PR radio reported.


Passenger Alison Redfern, from Scotland, said the day had been chaotic and she had waited hours to re-check her baggage and to try to check into a hotel.


The passengers eventually flew out of Perth Airport at 9.30pm.


Qantas was unavailable for comment.

 

[JohnK]

Does Qantas have maintenance crew in Perth? I don't know the seriousness of the issue but 10 hours does sound like a long delay unless they had to fly an engineer over from the East coast.

 

[oz_mark]

I can't speak for this exact case, but it is availibility of parts in Perth that is often more the issue, rather than the engineer.