Melburnian1
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For good reason, the ingenious and interesting AFF section 'Ask The Pilot' is very popular, satisfying a need for general and often specialist information from contributing aviators to AFF. It has also been running quite a long time.
Threads about airline delays and cancellations will never match 'Ask The Pilot' in reader interest but today, just five months after the QF delays/ cancellations thread ( that commenced on 1 July 2013) reached 200000 views it has climbed to 250000 views.
It was some time before airlines other than QF had such threads commenced. This was due to AFF member mannej so thank you to this gent from Perth, WA (not Scotland.)
Thank you to all for contributing and viewing. Many of us including myself have learnt a lot from others' expertise and pithy or at times lengthy comments. As one small example, I did not know that fog was a feature of life at DXB but one of our aviators filled us all in. I was also unaware at the start as to just how often QF9 (the mostly nightly MEL - DXB - LHR flight) was or is delayed, and the range of Middle Eastern alternate airfields used by the QF DXB - LHR and return flights QF1/QF2/QF9/QF10 due to weather constraints, defective planes or urgent medical diversions.
We have also seen the value of AFF 'on the spot' reporting with at least several reports every few months being quite fascinating as those on board update us with 'developments.' The delay threads have also been a source of information about how airlines treat passengers when 'things' go topsy turvy such as an aircraft becoming defective, or weather delaying a legacy airline flight and resulting in passengers being offered accommodation and included meals, or sometimes cash as a 'do it your self' stipulation.
The number of views is a function of not just AFF member and visitor interest in each airline but also how often each airline incurs delays and whether or not a delay or cancellation is noted, as none of us can (or would want to) be awake 24 hours a day, seven days a week recording these events.
This for example explains why Eva Air has only had about 200 views for delays or cancellations, because not only does it have an extremely limited number of flights into and out of Oz but it rarely appears to suffer delays or cancellations. The same is true of SQ subsidiary SilkAir.
At the other end of the scale is JQ, an airline with not a lot of patronage from AFF members - site non-member visitors may be different - but a huge number of delays including disastrously on the MEL - SYD and return route, Australia's busiest. JQ has had around 45800 views for delays and cancellations.
VA is next with about 27900 while TT has had around 10000. It is much smaller than JQ.
Perhaps unsurprisingly (although in December 2016 it started to lose a bit of overall international ex and to Oz market share) EK is the next largest with about 9400 views while CX follows with around 8400. Surprisingly SQ has only had about 4000 views but D7, admittedly an airline with quite a few delays has exceeded SQ with 5800.
UA has only about 50 per cent more delay posts than AA but despite the latter being (until US regulators ruled recently to the contrary) a QF affiliate, UA has double AA's viewership.
NZ has had 4300 while each of the three major mainland Chinese airlines has had around the 4000 mark in reader interest.
Overall as can be seen QF by far evokes the most interest which is not reflective of VA's about 35 per cent market share domestically and even less reflective of QFi's relatively small market share internationally (though if JQ and EK flights are included, this becomes about 35 per cent for QFi++.)
Further contributions about what actually happens when passengers incur severe delays is always most welcome: hotels used, how long it took to transfer from getting off the plane to arrival at the hotel, check in at hotel efficiency, meal arrangements, cash payments if applicable, time of collection from the hotel compared with altered departure time and so on.
Threads about airline delays and cancellations will never match 'Ask The Pilot' in reader interest but today, just five months after the QF delays/ cancellations thread ( that commenced on 1 July 2013) reached 200000 views it has climbed to 250000 views.
It was some time before airlines other than QF had such threads commenced. This was due to AFF member mannej so thank you to this gent from Perth, WA (not Scotland.)
Thank you to all for contributing and viewing. Many of us including myself have learnt a lot from others' expertise and pithy or at times lengthy comments. As one small example, I did not know that fog was a feature of life at DXB but one of our aviators filled us all in. I was also unaware at the start as to just how often QF9 (the mostly nightly MEL - DXB - LHR flight) was or is delayed, and the range of Middle Eastern alternate airfields used by the QF DXB - LHR and return flights QF1/QF2/QF9/QF10 due to weather constraints, defective planes or urgent medical diversions.
We have also seen the value of AFF 'on the spot' reporting with at least several reports every few months being quite fascinating as those on board update us with 'developments.' The delay threads have also been a source of information about how airlines treat passengers when 'things' go topsy turvy such as an aircraft becoming defective, or weather delaying a legacy airline flight and resulting in passengers being offered accommodation and included meals, or sometimes cash as a 'do it your self' stipulation.
The number of views is a function of not just AFF member and visitor interest in each airline but also how often each airline incurs delays and whether or not a delay or cancellation is noted, as none of us can (or would want to) be awake 24 hours a day, seven days a week recording these events.
This for example explains why Eva Air has only had about 200 views for delays or cancellations, because not only does it have an extremely limited number of flights into and out of Oz but it rarely appears to suffer delays or cancellations. The same is true of SQ subsidiary SilkAir.
At the other end of the scale is JQ, an airline with not a lot of patronage from AFF members - site non-member visitors may be different - but a huge number of delays including disastrously on the MEL - SYD and return route, Australia's busiest. JQ has had around 45800 views for delays and cancellations.
VA is next with about 27900 while TT has had around 10000. It is much smaller than JQ.
Perhaps unsurprisingly (although in December 2016 it started to lose a bit of overall international ex and to Oz market share) EK is the next largest with about 9400 views while CX follows with around 8400. Surprisingly SQ has only had about 4000 views but D7, admittedly an airline with quite a few delays has exceeded SQ with 5800.
UA has only about 50 per cent more delay posts than AA but despite the latter being (until US regulators ruled recently to the contrary) a QF affiliate, UA has double AA's viewership.
NZ has had 4300 while each of the three major mainland Chinese airlines has had around the 4000 mark in reader interest.
Overall as can be seen QF by far evokes the most interest which is not reflective of VA's about 35 per cent market share domestically and even less reflective of QFi's relatively small market share internationally (though if JQ and EK flights are included, this becomes about 35 per cent for QFi++.)
Further contributions about what actually happens when passengers incur severe delays is always most welcome: hotels used, how long it took to transfer from getting off the plane to arrival at the hotel, check in at hotel efficiency, meal arrangements, cash payments if applicable, time of collection from the hotel compared with altered departure time and so on.
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