Emirates Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Much later on 4 August, EK418, the 1950 hours BKK overnight to SYD has been altered to depart at 2105.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Friday 5 August, EK406 (0710 hours MEL - AKL) is suggested as instead pushing back at 0800.

EK434 from DXB is arriving in BNE at roughly 0739, 74 minutes late with A380 A6-EEK. The tag flight to AKL, timetabled out at 0810, is showing as delayed until 0845 but this is likely to be an underestimate as an A380 normally takes longer than 66 minutes at a passenger intermediate stop. (Refuelling and medical diversions might be quicker).

The 0750 hours SYD - AKL, EK412 is delayed until a predicted 0820 hours.

EK404 ex SIN (A380 A6-EOI) will be approximately 75 minutes behind schedule into MEL at 0905.

EK418, the overnight from BKK should arrive in SYD at about 0905, 80 minutes late with B773ER A6-ECG the aircraft. It should depart for CHC 90 minutes late ex SYD at 1045.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 7 August, EK418 (0915 hours SYD - CHC) departed at 1008 with arrival in the Kiwi 'shake capital' expected at 1511, 51 minutes behind the schedule.

 

[Melburnian1]

On a windy Tuesday 9 August 2016 morning in MEL, EK404 from SIN (A380 A6_EUA) is arriving at about 0826, 36 minutes behind time after being in two relatively brief holds over Navarre and Bendigo.

EK418 (0915 hours SYD - CHC) took off at 1026 with arrival suggested as 1514 hours this afternoon, 54 minutes late. The flight is operated by B773ER A6-EBY.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Thursday 11 August, the horribly timed 0240 hours MEL - KUL, EK409, took off at 0515 - imagine waiting around at 0330 or 0400 for this - with B773ER A6-EGO. Consequent KUL arrival should be at about 1030, 110 minutes tardy.

 

[Melburnian1]

Friday 12 August sees tag flights EK412 (0750 hours SYD across to AKL) delayed in departure by an expected hour and EK418 (0915 hours SYD to CHC) delayed until 1005. Passengers using the eastbound TransTasman EK flights are very much at the mercy of how congested DXB is, as irrespective as to whether some EK flights call in Asia en route between DXB, the Oz east coast and NZ, DXB is where many operating problems occur.

While DXB never ranks in the top 10 airports worldwide in the annual Skytrax survey - for good reason, with SIN among airports that are way preferable - has DXB been a victim of its own 'success' with the infrastructure (and available flight paths) unable to cope with the volumes now being carried?

EK404, the 2240 hours Thursday 11 August SIN - MEL (A380 A6-EOV) was in the air at 0159 on Friday 12 so is arriving at about 1026, 156 minutes behind time.

 

[Melburnian1]

Friday 19 August 2016 saw EK412, the 0750 hours SYD across to AKL depart at 0827 with arrival at 1330, half an hour behind.

 

[Melburnian1]

The late evening of Sunday 21 August has EK413, the 2110 hours from SYD to DXB having taken off at 2226 with arrival likely at about 0635 on Monday 22, 55 minutes behind time. Aircraft is A380 A6-EDY.

 

[mushez]

Saturday 3rd September, on EK434 to AKL and while late on arrival from DXB, made up time in turn around and due to light load were all ready to go on schedule.

However on and just sitting waiting for ages, and issues with any audio for safety videos.

Then more waiting and just got informed 30 mins past departure we have gone tech on the count of cabin crew not being able to communicate with each other between stations and engineer is working through checklist to try to get the intercom to work to be able to fly.

Edit 50 mins past departure:
Thought was fixed and pushed back, sat pushed back for a while and captain came on to say not fixed, have warnings coming up all over the show, and we are going to go back in to the gate again to have another look at it and try to fix it again.

Edit, 2 hours past departure - no further update, still sitting at gate drinking champagne. Airbus rules dictate bird cannot fly without some intercom, so stuck here till intercom is fixed and is working so crew can talk to each other about their social lives.

Edit 2 hours 10 minutes, pushed back and off - but no IFE. Let's see how we go this time.

 

[jb747]

.....so stuck here till intercom is fixed and is working so crew can talk to each other about their social lives.

Given that EVERYTHING that is said on the phone system can be heard in the coughpit, I can guarantee that virtually nothing is said that's unrelated to the flight.

It is a safety and security issue, so there is no relief in the MEL if the entire system is down. General solution is a total power down reboot of the aircraft, though that's just as likely to kill something else, and takes about an hour.

 

[mushez]

Given that EVERYTHING that is said on the phone system can be heard in the coughpit, I can guarantee that virtually nothing is said that's unrelated to the flight.

It is a safety and security issue, so there is no relief in the MEL if the entire system is down. General solution is a total power down reboot of the aircraft, though that's just as likely to kill something else, and takes about an hour.

It was a throw away joke.

We flew in the end without any IFE, no seat power, so all J & F seats were locked where they were when they rebooted.

Was on the same frame for the return AKL-BNE and they seemed to have got it working again, and departed on time out of AKL - but there was times when the PA was distorted.

 

[mushez]

So I just got this email at 7:34pm today:



EK434 has not even left Dubai yet - looks set to depart at 1am AEST - looks like fun times ahead for all - not looking forward to arriving into AKL at 10pm - then a 2-3 hour drive to Tauranga.

 

[docjames]

So I just got this email at 7:34pm today:

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EK434 has not even left Dubai yet - looks set to depart at 1am AEST - looks like fun times ahead for all - not looking forward to arriving into AKL at 10pm - then a 2-3 hour drive to Tauranga.

Not great formatting in that email - the clear version in the table is the original time and the new (relevant) time is buried in the text.

Will your travel insurance pay for hotel at AKL overnight (and drive in AM)?

 

[mushez]

Not great formatting in that email - the clear version in the table is the original time and the new (relevant) time is buried in the text.

Will your travel insurance pay for hotel at AKL overnight (and drive in AM)?

Agreed - not the best formatting of an email.

Hotel in AKL didn't cross my mind - I am shuttling - and company has 20 shuttles a day normally - running 24 hours and deal with delays quite well - and was there waiting for me.

If that didn't work out - I have 3 brothers within 20 minutes of the airport that would be happy for me to pop over and crash at their place.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Monday 10 October 2016, EK406 across the ditch from MEL to AKL is expected to depart at 0845 rather than 0810.

 

[Melburnian1]

A further delay on Monday 10 October is EK407, the 1850 hours from AKL back to MEL that took off at 1914 but which has lost time, being likely to arrive at 2132, 42 minutes late. There is some congestion approaching MEL so the flight has gone on a bit of a Cook's tour south of Wilson's Promontory. Holding patterns seem to occur fairly often on weekdays between about 1830 and 2030 into MEL.

 

[docjames]

Melburnian1 have you looked at any EK delays ex-DXB into Europe as presumably much of their custom (and QF's) from Aus/NZ are connections at DXB into various EU destinations.

 

[Melburnian1]

Melburnian1 have you looked at any EK delays ex-DXB into Europe as presumably much of their custom (and QF's) from Aus/NZ are connections at DXB into various EU destinations.

docjames, an excellent suggestion but as none of us can do everything and that would be quite time consuming, no I have not.

I keep these threads - personal choice, not mandatory for anyone else - to be 99 per cent about 'to, ex and within Australia', simply because I would need to give up paid employment, chores around the house and other recreation were I to do otherwise.

However those who travel, say on EK and experience a delay 'beyond' DXB are welcome to post as often as they wish, because as you correctly point out, airlines prosper on connections. One classic is SQ, where on some flights I have been ex or to Oz I suspect only 10 per cent of passengers have SIN as a destination or origin. Many are going to all parts of Asia, and some to Europe.

While it suffers from only including (typically) the last 60 flights in its calculations (so it does not cover the median for all seasons of a year), www.flightstats.com can be a good way of quickly obtaining a snapshot of how a particular flight is doing in terms of punctuality and cancellations. That does not mean that your or my flight will operate as one might surmise from FlightStats, but it succeeds in turning up flight numbers that have a dubious record of either constantly or often running late, or being cancelled. There are such 'experiences' to be had!

docjames, one other point about EK is that its TransTasman eastbound flights are captive to the punctuality of flights ex DXB, or whatever other point in Asia a flight may be originating such as BKK, KUL or SIN. This can often mean a late departure from MEL, SYD or BNE for the trek across the Tasman. The westbound flights originating in New Zealand tend to not be as afflicted because there is usually several hours in NZ turnaround time.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Saturday 15 October, EK404, the redeye from SIN to MEL (A380 A6-EOA) should arrive about 39 minutes late at 0929. It had taken off from SIN 71 minutes after its allotted pushback time so it should have made up about 10 - 15 minutes point-to-point.

 

[Melburnian1]

Sunday 16 October sees EK432 progressing towards a Monday 17 October 0115 hours arrival in BNE, half an hour late with aircraft B773ER A6-EGG undertaking the task. This sector originates in SIN.