V Australia cancellations

[Andrew M]

Eventually VAus will learn that you need to have some breathing space in the schedules to allow for such events.

[NickN]

Tiger had the same issues until they had enough a/c in their fleet to cope with disruptions.

[Andrew M]

From memory they are not getting any more 777's until around the Sep/Oct of 2010, which is over 9 months away.

Even then they will be using the planes to maximum capacity and any delay/diversion for whatever reason is going to cause headaches!

[Blair M]

There is a scheduled break all day in LAX from BNE. Also, the turn times in all ports allow for catch up time. Min turn time is around 90mins for a full clean etc..

But not many airlines will purposely schedule downtime for the unplanned medical diversion.