Melbourne diversions this morning.

[Adam.S]

Originally Posted by Anthony T

The 2 QF flights are diverting due to the volcano

I read that last night on the Qantas website.
Can someone please explain how the volcano is effecting Qantas flights arriving into Melbourne from the West??
Other carriers are operating, flying in Victorian airspace at 18,000ft.

The MEL-SYD flight path is closer to the volcano, yet that is still open.

Also the United flight between SYD-MEL-SYD is cancelled today.
Perhaps due to fog in Melbourne?
QF94 was diverted to Sydney this morning too it seems.

Cheers

No fog, VIS currently 7km.

[Noel White]

Noted on PlanePlotter are two ANZ flights ANZ123 (AKL-MEL) and ANZ855 (WLG-MEL) are off Sydney now heading towards Mellbourne.

[AdamC]

Heaps of aircraft over the south coast NSW heading toward melbourne at lower levels than i'm use to seeing them at.

I guess the FL180 restriction is happening.

[lloyd fox]

Adam S HI.

The ash to my knowledge is moving west to east around the world as upper winds circulate that way.So the ash has already moved across Sth America over the atlantic across the bottom of South Africa and the Indian ocean and now is affecting Tasmania ,Victoria and NZ.It is coming from the W-SW .So in the next day or 2 it would have circumnavigated the world.

[Adam.S]

^
I see, thanks Lloyd. I was thinking the cloud was moving east to west.
I guess that explains why the Sth Africa/Sydney Qantas flights 63/64 have been using a diverted flight path which has been taking them over central Australia (NT).
Cheers for that.

[Jason H]

The QF63 has been an ER the last few days due to the ash, and it's causing all sorts of problems, such as cancelled services to EZE and heavily delayed services. The ERs are sparse now with Dallas flights

[Scott Loveday]

QF63 has also been calling into PER for fuel.