Cancelled flights & waivers due to Cyclone Alfred

[Kefci2000]

Waiver Policies
Qantas:

Commercial and reward bookings policy for customers impacted by Cyclone Alfred | Qantas.com

Virgin Australia:

Tropical Cyclone Alfred Updates - Virgin Australia

JetStar:

Queensland – Tropical Cyclone Alfred | Travel Alerts - Jetstar

Bureau of Meterology - Cyclone Alfred

Latest forecast track:

 

[DC3]

A chance BNE is open again today?

 

[DC3]

… the lovely Wendy …

 

[pyffii]

Because she was so pleasant and accommodating in making the changes

 

[Saab34]

Here comes the wind and rain, just arriving right now it seems. TAF isn’t pretty at Brisbane.

WND: 080-170/20-35, MAX XW 35. MAX TW 10.

 

[markis10]

Here comes the wind and rain, just arriving right now it seems. TAF isn’t pretty at Brisbane.

WND: 080-170/20-35, MAX XW 35. MAX TW 10.

That’s not a TAF, they don’t quote cross wind figures on TAFs, that’s the ATIS.

TAF
TAF AMD YBBN 080705Z 0807/0912 12020G30KT 9000 MODERATE RAIN BKN012 FM081200 09020G30KT 7000 MODERATE RAIN BKN010 FM081800 06015G25KT 7000 MODERATE RAIN BKN010 TEMPO 0807/0906 09030G40KT 0500 SHOWERS OF HEAVY RAIN BKN005 SCT015TCU TEMPO 0906/0912 07030G40KT 2000 SHOWERS OF MODERATE RAIN BKN010 SCT020TCU PROB30 TEMPO 0815/0906 09040G50KT 0500 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN BKN005 SCT020CB RMK FM080700 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT T 24 24 24 23 Q 1007 1008 1009 1009

In english

Forecast​

• Between saturday 16:00 and sunday 22:00​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 150° with a speed of 14 kt.
  • Visibility: 9 km
  • Weather: Rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 1,200 ft.

• From saturday 22:00​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 090° with a speed of 15 kt. Wind gusts expected of 25 kt.
  • Visibility: 7 km
  • Weather: Rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 1,000 ft.

• From sunday 04:00​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 060° with a speed of 15 kt. Wind gusts expected of 25 kt.
  • Visibility: 7 km
  • Weather: Rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 1,000 ft.

• Temporarily between saturday 16:00 and sunday 16:00​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 090° with a speed of 30 kt. Wind gusts expected of 40 kt.
  • Visibility: 500 m
  • Weather: Heavy showers rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 500 ft and scattered clouds towering coughulus at an altitude of 1,500 ft.

• Temporarily between sunday 16:00 and 22:00​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 070° with a speed of 30 kt. Wind gusts expected of 40 kt.
  • Visibility: 2 km
  • Weather: Showers rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 1,000 ft and scattered clouds towering coughulus at an altitude of 2,000 ft.

• Temporarily between sunday 01:00 and 16:00 (30% chance)​

  • Wind: The wind is from direction 090° with a speed of 40 kt. Wind gusts expected of 50 kt.
  • Visibility: 500 m
  • Weather: Heavy thunderstorms rain
  • Clouds: broken clouds at an altitude of 500 ft and scattered clouds coughulonimbus at an altitude of 2,000 ft.

 

[DC3]

Because she was so pleasant and accommodating in making the changes

Ah. So, not necessarily beautiful or pretty.

 

[Quickstatus]

More importantly all liquor shops are shut.

Hope no one gets the DTs

 

[Tiki]

In the end, we only got about 50mm of rain (estimated by the pool water level) and some strong, but not destructive wind. I would much rather this outcome and been prepared for worse. And I feel for those further south that were not in the direct path of Alfred, but copped way worse wind and rain than those of us directly in the predicted line.

250,000 (quarter of a million) homes/properties without power early this morning. That is a very large proportion of the estimated 4 Million residents (assume 2-3 people per property on average, though number likely includes business properties as well). So far no services disruption for us, but expecting ongoing rain for a few days.

Same here (minus swimming pool), very little rain comapratively and thankfully no damaging winds which was my main worry. Bay window survives! And the news from GC and northern NSW is heartbreaking, those people who had trees fall on their houses and such.

Just thinking. The best forecasters of the cyclone on the Sunshine coast were the local birds. they began moving out Wednesday afternoon and the mornings of Thursday and Friday had no bird calls.
Friday afternoon most had moved back.

The other thing this was not an unique event or an event without precedent. Being 78 I still remember my aunt taking me to the movies and watching the Cinesound Newsreels so remember 1954/55. !954 was the "great" Gold Coast Cyclone and 1955 the Maitland Flood which was much wider than just Maitland. It was due to a rain depression forming off the QLD/NSW border leading to large rainfalls throughout northern NSW.

The Great Gold Coast Cyclone of 1954

It was an unnamed cyclone that hit Queensland in 1954, but the scale of damage and loss of life earned it the title 'the Great Gold Coast Cyclone'.

www.abc.net.au

1955 Hunter Valley floods - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I was wondering about that! The rainbow lorikeets, honeyeaters and noisy miners were squawking loudly in the trees, I was worried about them. But things are quiet now, should I be worried?

 

[Captain Halliday]

Looks like BNE has its first contestant (RPT).

 

[jase05]

Looks to be a couple of JQ flights heading to OOL currently

 

[drron]

Hope no one gets the DTs

Well I made sure I had extra gin available. Have to stock up on the wine for Mrsdrron tomorrow though.

Same here (minus swimming pool), very little rain comapratively and thankfully no damaging winds which was my main worry. Bay window survives! And the news from GC and northern NSW is heartbreaking, those people who had trees fall on their houses and such.

I was wondering about that! The rainbow lorikeets, honeyeaters and noisy miners were squawking loudly in the trees, I was worried about them. But things are quiet now, should I be worried?

It was very quiet here Thursday and Friday morning. But Friday afternoon it was back to normal. Seems like the birds better forecasters than the BOM.
Our butcher birds stayed home but were quiet. The last 3 days had a change in behaviour. Normally dad insists on eating first followed by mum and then junior. Dad gets aggressive if the others eat first. But the last 3 days he let junior and mum share the first sitting whilst he sat to the side. Only ate when they finished. This evening back to the usual way.

 

[Saab34]

Nauru 737 gave up and diverted to ROK.

Jetstar A321 in the area holding at the moment.

Wind seems to be more favourable at Sunshine Coast, pretty much right down the runway. Crosswind/Tailwind not as bad down at Gold Coast.

 

[Comoman]

QF6146 (737) enroute from Perth to Brisbane. ETA 30mins.

Assume they’ve got lots of holding/diversion fuel.

 

[markis10]

I think Alford has decided some time resting at Tangalooma might be in order

 

[Comoman]

Listening to LiveATC it seems pretty rough still at Brisbane. 60kts crosswind at 100ft reported by JQ7994 which went around and diverted.

Listening to: YBBN Brisbane Center (129.000) | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | LiveATC.net

www.liveatc.net

 

[moa999]

JQ7992 (ex SYD) and QF6146 (ex PER) also just aborted.
So might struggle to get the planes in tonight for the early BNE departures.

A few other aircraft enroute to both BNE and OOL

Both above plus JQ7994 seem to be heading to SYD.

 

[Justinf]

My Saturday night is watching aborted landings and go around at BNE on flightradar24

 

[Melburnian1]

JQ7992 and QF6146 also just aborted.
So might struggle to get the planes in tonight for the early BNE departures.

A few other aircraft enroute to both BNE and OOL

JQ7994 seems to be returning to SYD.

QF6146 and JQ7992 also seem to be heading south down to SYD.

 

[moa999]

My Saturday night is watching aborted landings and go around at BNE on flightradar24

I'm watching in between the races at Race of Champions in Sydney

Cool concept. Average crowd.

 

[moa999]

And QF6116 aborts early, turning around just after passing the Gold Coast.
QF6036 also aborts near Tamworth