Rainy weather in Sydney

[Robert Zweck]

Pity you couldn't send some of the rain over here to Adelaide...


A QF FF reported that heavy rain in Sydney early last night caused them to have to sit in the holding point queue for almost 25 minutes.

The pax was on VH-VZA QF 743 SYD-ADL with an elapsed block time of 2 hrs 25 minutes, normally its about 1 hour 55.

Also on Friday night on QF 785 SYD-ADL , a well known Adelaide identity reported that they also spent about 25 minutes in the queue.

They arrived Adelaide just before curfew and a possible diversion and overnight in Canberra was avoided ( the pax raised the subject with an FA whilst waiting at SYD ).

It sounded as though the flight was given preferential take-off priority to avoid busting ADL curfew....can ATC do that?