BNE currently closed due FOG

[lloyd fox]

VIS down to 180 metres.

[phil.l]

Any diversion Lloyd?

[lloyd fox]

Up to 19 aircraft holding currently.JAL has asked for SYD weather with a diversion at 0745 am however your weather not too good either.QF 16 LAX-BNE diverted to NOU .JAL now looking at OOL due SYD weather.

[Skip Fulton]

Thanks Lloyd, this scared me when I saw the title of the thread. Looks as though everything before about 07:10 got in ok though.

[David Knudsen]

At 0850 Center was reporting holding patterns had 38 aircraft stacked, with up to 2 hour delay.

[Brandon Giacomin]

Here's a complete list of a/c that diverted.

QF16 LAX-BNE VH-OJC div NOU
SQ255 SIN-BNE 9V-STF div OOL
TT8112 ADL-BNE VH-VNC div OOL
DJ187 AKL-BNE ZK-PBF div OOL
DJ67 WLG-BNE ZK-PBM div OOL
DJ1385 ADL-BNE VH-ZPI div OOL
JQ929 CNS-BNE VH-VQP div OOL
NZ201 CHC-BNE ZK-OJA div SYD (flight to BNE was cancelled, returned to NZ)
NZ169 WLG-BNE ZK-OJO div SYD (flight to BNE was cancelled, returned to NZ)
NZ131 AKL-BNE ZK-NCG div SYD (flight to BNE was cancelled, returned to NZ)

[Joe Frampton]

My wife was on QF16 from LAX that diverted to Noumea. They sat at Noumea for a while - of course no extra food on board, and the usual whinging from some parties (how inconvenient to MY schedule, etc.), but apparently the alcohol was flowing again quite nicely on the Noumea-Brisbane sector. Clare said there were 3 Qantas jumbos at Noumea waiting for fuel and QF16 was the last one in the queue (which I guess is stating the bleedin' obvious as QF16 is the last one out of LAX!)
Now, what was weird was that most of the other early international arrivals in Brisbane made it through... including Virgin from LAX and other flights from SIN, etc. When Clare texted me, about 0530, from Noumea, the skies, certainly in northern Brisbane, were pretty clear. It was only as the light came up that the fog turned quite thick. I guess Qantas take a cautious approach - fair play to them - but if they had kept flying in, with a predicted 0625 arrival, as far as I know, they would have landed no problem. But hey, I'm no expert, put me in the simulator and I would have dropped the bird in the ocean many, many times over

[Brandon Giacomin]

Originally Posted by Joe Frampton

Clare said there were 3 Qantas jumbos at Noumea

The other 2 B744 flights that diverted to Noumea were QF108 and QF74.

[Fred C]

Originally Posted by Joe Frampton

Clare said there were 3 Qantas jumbos at Noumea waiting for fuel

What we really need is pictures.