I Was on QF548 last night, ( and early this morning )
It was certainly the longest time on a plane from SYD -BNE that i have ever had,
I must say though,
The QF cabin staff did a great job it what was trying times.
But i do question why we left SYD at all, i suspect so we did not breach the curfew, ( if we had not left we might not have left before curfew is what i mean) and then it would have been hotel rooms all round i guess ??
But you would think that the pilots would have know what the weather was doing in BNE before leaving the gate in SYD.
Anyhow so after flying in cirlces for about 1 hour, we diverted to the G/C.
There was, at one stage, at least 9 jets on the ground in coolangatta, with only 1 ground engineer ! he was one busy fellow.
We sat on the taxi way for around an hour or so, with engines running , before we could get a spot to refuel,
There was discussion going around regarding the pilots and their "time on duty" aparrently it was pretty close to needing a new crew. But that is just what i heard from another PAX.
In the end we did not land in BNE until 00.20 (fri) so it was a LONG day, specialy seeing i was up at 5am for a flight SYD - Albury yesterday morning.
anyhow, i only just got to work this morning, as a sleep in was very much needed !!
I hope thats my last problem like that for a while.
MM