Holidays and Airport 'Chaos' since COVID

[Captain Halliday]

SYD T2 is probably the real test case to see if things are back to normal.

Thanks for the clarification. I had mistakenly assumed the HBA QP was the accepted AFF barometer of "chaos".

 

[VPS]

April 14th they are expecting ADL to have its busiest day ever with the whole AFL round played here and the LIV golf tournament.
I believe at the moment we are sitting on about 115% of flights domestically compared to pre Covid.

I think I read our tourism is well above precovid levels in SA

 

[justinbrett]

I think the consensus is the chaos is over.

At least the thread as now been renamed as per my suggestion, but I’d say the topic is dead.

 

[AIRwin]

I’d say the topic is dead.

Or is it?

 

[SCM]

What's the story right now? When will the backlog be cleared? I have a flight in 2 weeks Monday, just slightly concerned.

 

[RooFlyer]

What's the story right now? When will the backlog be cleared? I have a flight in 2 weeks Monday, just slightly concerned.

Day to day proposition, depending on ATC availability and Sydney weather

 

[Denali]

Reason 812 why I wouldnt do a cruise.. yikes, how horrible for the guests

I think I'll stick to Gull Lake, thanks. From the Independence of the Seas leaving Port Canaveral, FL. | By 106.7 WJJY | Facebook

I think I'll stick to Gull Lake, thanks. From the Independence of the Seas leaving Port Canaveral, FL.

fb.watch

 

[Berlin]

Reason 812 why I wouldnt do a cruise.. yikes, how horrible for the guests

I think I'll stick to Gull Lake, thanks. From the Independence of the Seas leaving Port Canaveral, FL. | By 106.7 WJJY | Facebook

I think I'll stick to Gull Lake, thanks. From the Independence of the Seas leaving Port Canaveral, FL.

fb.watch

And bad weather on some cruise ship in Florida has to do with holiday traffic at Australian airports exactly... WHAT???

 

[SydneySwan]

And bad weather on some cruise ship in Florida has to do with holiday traffic at Australian airports exactly... WHAT???

When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon ...................

 

[Denali]

And bad weather on some cruise ship in Florida has to do with holiday traffic at Australian airports exactly... WHAT???

Calm down. I actually posted this in the chat thread and a mod has moved it so no idea whats going on in this Covid thread

Geez......

 

[Berlin]

Calm down. I actually posted this in the chat thread and a mod has moved it so no idea whats going on in this Covid thread

Geez......

I'm super calm, are you? Just found this clickbait video of some cruise ship to be in the totally wrong place.

 

[Berlin]

Back to topic: Sydney international is a mess today. Endless queues at Qantas checkin, even Business class queue went over the actual queue line and the little First check in area had people on the floor waiting. Apparently, something with the passport system was wrong which also explains why then afterwards, the e-gates fir emigration did not work either. Business and First class passengers had to join the same queue as the great unwashed for manual clearing- no mercy. At least that process went rather quickly.

Now at the Flounge and it’s a hot mess- packed to the rafters and a lot of staff I’ve never seen who clearly need more training. Food great though and the friendly front desk attendant “shuffled some things around” for me to get me a massage appointment still. Bliss!

 

[jakeseven7]

I think the consensus is the chaos is over.

At least the thread as now been renamed as per my suggestion, but I’d say the topic is dead.

I think T2 LCC terminal in Sydney was chaos even pre-Covid

 

[RooFlyer]

Back to topic: Sydney international is a mess today.

Yes, reports of the end of chaos appear to have been exaggerated, as the saying goes

Border Force IT outage the latest headache for air travellers

International travellers are facing massive check-in queues at major airports due to an outage of the Australian Border Force passenger processing system.

The system, which is the interface between the ABF and airlines, went down about 10.30am on Thursday and is yet to be restored.

An ABF spokesman said the system outage was affecting the advanced passenger processing system at all international check-in points.

Brisbane and Melbourne Airports confirmed travellers were facing long queues at check-in desks, with some waiting close to 90 minutes to get through.

 

[justinbrett]

Yes, reports of the end of chaos appear to have been exaggerated, as the saying goes

Border Force IT outage the latest headache for air travellers

Original topic name implied the delays were due covid / post-covid staffing issues. It has since been changed.

As we got through the Easter holidays without chaos, I think we can draw a line under covid (and related issues) and just call this general holiday/weather/it/atc-related chaos.

 

[RooFlyer]

Original topic name implied the delays were due covid / post-covid staffing issues. It has since been changed.

You got the topic changed, so now we talk here about 'ordinary' airport chaos post covid . Like today in SYD, also MEL and BNE.

With Sydney and it's weather 'airport chaos' isn't going away anytime soon.

 

[justinbrett]

You got the topic changed, so now we talk here about 'ordinary' airport chaos post covid . Like today in SYD, also MEL and BNE.

With Sydney and it's weather 'airport chaos' isn't going away anytime soon.

Yes I agree, but you referenced my comments about the topic being dead, which was a different topic.

Just making sure my comments aren’t taken out of context. Of course I would not be stupid enough to declare the end of airport chaos.

 

[clifford]

As we got through the Easter holidays without chaos, I think we can draw a line under covid (and related issues) and just call this general holiday/weather/it/atc-related chaos.

I don't think we can draw a line under covid quite yet. Staff levels (airline, airport, ATC, other) / experience/competence are down, aircraft fleets (plus reliability / maintenance / support) are down, general facilities are down, attitudes are changed (staff/pax). It's a dog's breakfast (but not my dogs, they are very tidy).

Covid still has a lot to answer for IMO.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Poor management has a lot to answer for as to why quite a few of the organisations involved have staffing issues. Airservices the first cab off the rank for that.

 

[jase05]

ADL an absolute debacle this morning with queues snaking out of the terminal thanks to baggage issues