Qantas pilots call Mayday - Perth 20/07/2022

[red750]

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/qantas-pilots-declare-mayday-due-to-low-fuel-on-transcontinental-flight-20220720-p5b35r.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1658305646

[Thruster88]

The rules regarding fuel have changed. Pilots were simply meeting the requirements, not really an emergency.  

[spacesailor]

BUT

would it have become an ' emergency ' if that PIC had followed hIs ATC  '  ORDER  ' ?.

[Yenn]

According to CASA the mayday fuel idea is an ICAO thing. When they brought it in I thought how stupid it was.

[Flightrite]

Remember it’s the Australian way of doing things…..as inefficient as possible, especially with ATC! 

[onetrack]

Q hasn't gained any more friends amongst its pax, with another major stuff-up when flights from Broome/Pt Hedland/Newman stopped at Geraldton, because they couldn't land in the fog at Perth airport.

The pax just got dumped in the terminal with bugger-all support, couldn't even get their warm clothing off the aircraft. Good one, Q!

Perhaps one day Allan Joyce will realise how little support Q has got left - from both pax and employees.

 

Q must be using some ancient aircraft on the Northern W.A. run, if the ones they use don't have CAT III landing abilities - or if the pilots on this run don't have the CAT III qualifications.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-27/passengers-sleep-at-geraldton-airport-terminal/101272948

[Old Koreelah]

Loyalty of staff and travelling public squandered.

Surely the plane’s crew could have done more for their passengers- or is their own morale at rock bottom?

[facthunter]

Remember when Joyce without any notice grounded Qantas world wide to get at the Engineers Union and the crews had to make their own way home?  Staff relations are not Joyce's good point.  Nev

[spacesailor]

STAFF,  !.

Just a number in some ledger. Joyce probably never see,s those numbers  ( workers/people ).

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Maintenance and Pilot training? An Unnecessary cost.  MORALE....Some have said It's back in the 50's but I'd say it's worse. Nev