QF32 divert DXB

[Kieran Wells]

Just heard it on the news QF32 diverted to Dubai, due to not having permission to fly over Iraq...

Looks like it was tonights arriving QF32 - Landed into Singapore at 12.18 Local(3.18pm AEST). Now scheduled to arrive Sydney 6.10am.

[Laurent Sanhard]

due to not having permission to overfly Iraq , never heard this before

[Brock Little]

Maybe it missed its time slot to do the flyover? I've heard that flights (such as QF32) are allocated timeslots to fly through Iraq airspace.

[Kieran Wells]

Thanks Laurent.. In my haste to post, missed the most important word lol..

[Laurent Sanhard]

A Qantas spokeswoman told AAP that Iraq air services would not allow the flight into Iraq air space on Monday as they did not "recognise the authority" who had pre-approved the flight path.


still sounds a bit odd to me:confused:

[Tony G]

So I take it the early morning arrival would be due to the aircraft not being able to make the YSSY curfew. If so would the passengers get a room or wait in Singapore for a few more hours in the terminal. They would most likely get a food voucher Im guessing.

[Brock Little]

The latest report goes well until...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8210999/qantas-flight-barred-from-iraq-airspace

The QF32 is the same flight number of the A380 Airbus which suffered an engine explosion flying from Singapore to Sydney on November 4 2010.



:rolleyes:

[Robert S]

SMH has lifted the same moronic article from AAP.

[Robert S]

So I take it the early morning arrival would be due to the aircraft not being able to make the YSSY curfew. If so would the passengers get a room or wait in Singapore for a few more hours in the terminal. They would most likely get a food voucher Im guessing.

Singapore Airport website has STA 08:00 ATA 12:18 from London-Heath via Dubai. Given 12:18 is 15:18 in Sydney there would be no way to do the turnaround and still make curfew. It ended up leaving SIN at 20:13, 15 minutes ahead of QF6.

There are definitely worse places to spend an 8 hour stopover, especially if Qantas clearly gave pax an indication of when they needed to be back at the gate by.

EDIT: Having just searched Twitter, I'm going to surmise that none of the pax on QF32 tonight has a Twitter account. :rolleyes: Oh well, I'm sure the media scrum will be out tomorrow morning to record their tales of woe the old fashioned way. :)

[Benny Zheng]

QF32 departed Singapore at 2013LT. So expect it tomorrow morning in Sydney :) Aircraft is VH-OQD.