Sydney Diversions due FOG - 21 Apr

[Brad Varney]

BA 15 and QF 6 diverting to YBBN due to heavy fog, QF6 had a missed approach.

[Kieran Wells]

Plenty more heading to Brisbane as well including QF 108, QF6, CX111, EK412, VA2.

[Andy G]

ADL received A380 QF002 and A330 QF42 VH-QPB due SYD diversions. Terminal apron was congested around 7am. Almost comical to see MH139 arrived from KL doing laps of taxiway/apron waiting for available gate and to free up taxiway for departing a/c.

[NathanJ]

Looks like CA177 & MU737 are diverting to Sydney from Melbourne.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

B-6093 and B-2566 are the a/c on approach.

[Sarah C]

From another site, list of all the diversions that went to Brissie, it would have been an amazing site to see the rust.

N171UA UA839 LAX-SYD
VH-OQC QF12 LAX-SYD
JA707J (Oneworld decals) JL771 NRT-SYD
9V-SKI SQ221 SIN-SYD
B-6092 CA173 PEK-SYD
G-BNLW BA15 SIN-SYD
VH-EBO QF568 PER-SYD
B-LAK CX111 HKG-SYD
VH-VPE VA30 AUH-SYD
VH-VPF VA2 LAX-SYD
VH-OJE QF6 SIN-SYD
G-VBUG VS200 HKG-SYD
VH-OJF QF108 LAX-SYD
A6-EDP EK412 DXB-SYD
VH-OQB QF94 LAX-MEL

[Paul McFarlane]

Just saw a QF A380 takeoff from Adelaide.

Cheers

Paul Mc

[Danfeng Qian]

I was at Lilyfield around 11 am and saw QF A380 and VS A346 flew over.

[lloyd fox]

Sarah unfortunately i cannot post any pics of BNE as i have shut my blog down whereby i could have transferred the photos.

Believe or not i have seen it worse at BNE before but saying that 4 A380'S on the ground is a record.

We now have more bays at the ITB than ever before and soon we will have 17 plus 6 at the old ITB and the old runway papa to park them as well.

Great morning up here.

Lloyd

[NathanJ]

CZ321 heading south. Also diverted to Syd from Melb.

[Chris G]

BA 15 and QF 6 diverting to YBBN due to heavy fog, QF6 had a missed approach.

I was on the Friday night QF6 from the SIN to SYD. We were not aware of the fog until we entered the hold off the coast of SYD. The FO advised us they had taken on extra fuel as the forecast included fog and we may need to divert to Brisbane. We did one approach on Rwy 34L at around 5:40am with the missed approach being conducted (hopefully without waking up too many people to the north of the airport). We diverted to BNE and sat on the ground for around 30 minutes waiting for the fuel truck to work its way through the queue. We eventually got back to SYD at around 09:40am. We were advised by the CSM that a number passenger had fallen ill during the evening and the plane would need to be cleared by quarantine prior to any passengers be allowed to leave. The queue in immigration was typical for a Saturday morning with all the lanes and smartgate getting a solid workout. I had a connecting flight to Armidale originally departing at 0840am however Qantas automatically put me on the 12:10pm service. All in all well handled by the Qantas crew and operations.

I understand over 5,000 passengers across multiple airlines were impacted by this mornings SYD fog. Some were impacted further as their crews had exceeded duty time and could not continue the flight to SYD. The flight crew also said that CNS and OOL as well as ADL and BNE received a number of diversions this morning.

[Sarah C]

5,000 people is a number that doesn't surprise me - well done to all involved, I know passengers would have been annoyed with the delays but the ground crews and on board crews always do they all they can to get everyone to thier destination as quickly as possible. No one can control the weather and everyone's patience is tested.

[Adam P.]

Fog in MEL this morning as well, ADL got a few diversions - from memory a Cathay, an Air NZ jet that didn't even bother trying at Melbourne, and probably a few more I forget.
Airborne holding of up to an hour and a half was being quoted at one stage.

[Brad Varney]

I was on the Friday night QF6 from the SIN to SYD.

Hey Chris I happened to film your aircraft landing today. :)

[Brock Little]

OOL just got a JQ A320 and a bizjet :(
Glad to hear it was handled well Chris.

[Andrew Coggan]

Fog forecast for Sydney again tomorrow morning.

[Jayden Laing]

Now that winter has almost arrived Andrew, expect FOG to be in the forecast every morning!!

[Philip Argy]

Just saw a QF A380 takeoff from Adelaide

I heard that QF2 was delayed because "the" A380-qualified tug driver had to be located and rushed to the airport! Could that really be true?

[Kieran Wells]

United 839 and QF12 heading to Brisbane this morning.

[Brock Little]

VA2 and QF108 also...G-BNLW that was doing yesterday's BA15 left Brisbane just an hour ago!

[Neil Hogbin]

Maybe it's a "Splash and Dash" due to strong headwinds across the pacific as Sydney seems to be coping with fog problems this morning. QF108 also heading for Brisbane.
Yesterdays BA15 divert to Brisbane has just re-positioned down to Sydney as BA15X and will operate yesterdays BA16 back to Heathrow this morning.
The scheduled BA16 for this afternoon has also been delayed until 0630 tomorrow due to operating crew being the ones arriving this morning on BA15X.

[Brett Williamson]

Vietnam Airlines and Asiana diverted to Melbourne. QF400 flew a hold pattern around Bowral before heading back to Melbourne. QF50 went to Brisbane.

The fog this morning was a shocker. As Chris said, whatever landed or took off was a mystery if not for a scanner.

[Brock Little]

OOL got QF50 today, better than nothing :)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/7101837767_35f3ce26c3_c.jpg

[George G]

Maybe it's a "Splash and Dash" due to strong headwinds across the pacific as Sydney seems to be coping with fog problems this morning. QF108 also heading for Brisbane.
Yesterdays BA15 divert to Brisbane has just re-positioned down to Sydney as BA15X and will operate yesterdays BA16 back to Heathrow this morning.
The scheduled BA16 for this afternoon has also been delayed until 0630 tomorrow due to operating crew being the ones arriving this morning on BA15X.

I had some people departing with BA16 on Saturday who flew out on Sunday morning. I must say that i wasn't really happy with how British Airways handled the whole situation. They could have done so much better.

[Kurt A]

Here's what the fog looked like from the air as seen at 7am yesterday morning.
So thick and extremelly low-vis underneath, but above 1000-2000' it's clear as day.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g183/yssy_moderator/YSSY%20Stuff/yssy_fog_2.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g183/yssy_moderator/YSSY%20Stuff/yssy_fog_3.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g183/yssy_moderator/YSSY%20Stuff/yssy_fog_1.jpg

[Kieran Wells]

I must say that i wasn't really happy with how British Airways handled the whole situation. They could have done so much better.

They didn't "To Fly, To serve"????

[George G]

Definitely not!! lol

They have since come to the conclusion that they will not be flying them again!