Bad weather in Brisbane

[2tonne]

Traveling from Mel to Brisbane tonight on Qantas scheduled to arrive around 8:30 pm. I see the forecast is pretty ordinary. Scattered cloud down to 800ft, heavy rain, 20 kt ESE gusting to 35 kt, thunderstorms. Could make for an interesting arrival. At what point do they draw the line and decide to hold/divert?

 

 

[fly_tornado]

 

good luck with the trains

 

 

[2tonne]

Hmmm, might be a slightly longer night than I hoped

 

 

[rhysmcc]

Traveling from Mel to Brisbane tonight on Qantas scheduled to arrive around 8:30 pm. I see the forecast is pretty ordinary. Scattered cloud down to 800ft, heavy rain, 20 kt ESE gusting to 35 kt, thunderstorms. Could make for an interesting arrival. At what point do they draw the line and decide to hold/divert?

I'm not an airline pilot but it doesn't seem like no go conditions. 800ft isn't that low considering the ILS, the main factor will be the vis in the heavy rain and the location of the "cells" when nearing the aerodrome. Expect delays

 

 

[fly_tornado]

people are complaining on twitter about planes being delayed but not cancelled

 

not too sure about the footy, that looks slippery

 

 

 

[2tonne]

Our aircraft is already delayed into Melbourne. By the look of it I might be contending with some flash flooding once on the ground.

 

 

[aj_richo]

I'd be checking Qantas Flight Status page.. quite a few from Melbourne are showing delayed status

 

http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/flight-status/global/en

 

 

 

[2tonne]

Yep, mines on that list. More time to browse the forums here, so not all bad:smile:

 

 

[dazza 38]

people are complaining on twitter about planes being delayed but not cancellednot too sure about the footy, that looks slippery

Apparently it's going ahead as long as there in no hail or lightning in the vicinity.

 

 

[ben87r]

Just heard postponed till Sunday.

 

 

[2tonne]

Hope it's the footy delayed to Sunday, not my flight!

 

 

[ben87r]

Bugger your flight!!! I want to watch the foozeball!! Lol!

 

 

[dazza 38]

Just heard postponed till Sunday.

Yup just saw that on nine news.

 

 

[Geoff13]

Bloody sooks, when I was a boy we would have put our flippers on and got out there. LOL

 

 

[Geoff13]

Got a mate coming out of Gladstone to Brisbane tonight. 1700 flight still in Gladstone.

 

 

[ben87r]

Bloody sooks, when I was a boy we would have put our flippers on and got out there. LOL

It's those bloody soft QLD ground staff! Wouldn't have been cancelled in blues country!

 

 

[Geoff13]

Yep we imported them from down south and all'

 

 

[2tonne]

Only an hour late, no rain, no wind or storms. Happy to have missed it.

 

 

[Geoff13]

Gladstone Flight cancelled