YSSY this morning.

[NathanJ]

Hey All, Any ideas what's happening at the airfield today? 16R appears to be partially closed. Qf26 & Qf12 a380 landing on 16L??? Wowzers! China Southern a380 diverting to BNE?

[Rob Fluke]

Pavement failure..All departures will go from Golf while looks like quite a number of acft are diverting to YBBN

[NathanJ]

Thanks Rob... American just landed 16L. Should be an interesting morning!

16R has reopened with Korean departing...

[Grahame Hutchison]

Qantas A380 VH-OQE did a go around on Runway 16R because of the pavement failure, then landed on Runway 16L and had 6 Fire Tenders following it on Taxiway Tango. Apparently they called PAN earlier.

A Tiger aircraft departing from Bravo 4 reported debris on the edge of the runway and a whole in the pavement.

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[NathanJ]

I don't recall an a380 ever landing on 16L / 34R ?

[MarkR]

For Qantas it's not an approved option unless it's the only option.

[lloyd fox]

We in BNE got 4 international diversions including CZ 380 and DL 777.

[Mick F]

I'm guessing probably some pretty hot brakes after landing on 16L. And shorter than 34R!

[David C]

16L landing distance available (LDA) is a published 2207M , 34R LDA is a published 2400M .

Dave C

[Mick F]

Does anyone know why when they built 16L/34R, they didn't make it just a few hundred metres longer? Often those few hundred metres would make a world of difference with arrival and departure, in particular our friendly Asian cousins who insist on 16R/34L, because of I'm assuming marginal performance on 16L/34R?

Or is it just another case of being typically Australian and not looking forward beyond the next 5 years because it's fine for the current situation?

Mick

[David C]

That question has always intrigued me too . From my non expert position , I couldn't see the logic of building a parallel runway 1500M shorter than the main parallel when building space was not an issue . It would have provided an opportunity for true noise sharing with landings and take offs before swapped at time intervals between the two runways without any performance issues . Look at LHR , ICN , JFK just to name a few , and there are many airports around the World who have equal or near equal length parallel runways , and observe the advantages .

Dave C