straitman, many thanks for your usual great research or memory (or both). I have been to airports such as MUC and observed my and other planes being deiced, an interesting procedure carried out with trademark German efficiency.
Perhaps the QF spokeswoman who was quoted this morning as saying that there were 'issues' with (her words, not mine) 'the deicing truck' ought consider that there would need to be at least two of these, one for each side of even a smaller aircraft such as a B737. Yet she gave the impression that there is just one truck.
How do these PR people make such gaffes when these days so many journalists or observers have access to so much information on the Internet and on specialised forums such as AFF?
One solution might be to give jb747 a second role as QF spokesman. At least the community might then be told the facts and not some understated assertion such as the official QF comments this morning that the delays were '40 minutes' and that (at 0840) things would be 'returning to normal soon.' The delays in the case below were almost five hours, and some flights this afternoon are still late.
Here is a further update from
News.com.au | News Online from Australia and the World | NewsComAu commenting in detail on MEL to PER flight QF775 that (while the article does not say it) eventually departed MEL at 1126 this morning instead of 0630:
Victoria shivers through another freezing morning
