VA7 / VA8 ... BNE - delays over next few days

[Clivem]

Ouch ..... current VA7 delayed 11 hrs and if you look ahead on the boards the knock on effect does not look good for a few days to come on the VA7 VA8 boards ....... Not good being school holiday etc .......... I see the VA facebook page is warming up on this one ......... If you are off Hollywood out of BNE its a heads up

 

[bcworld]

I see the VA facebook page is warming up on this one

Yes, it seems a lot of people are just getting their standard flight reminder notifications with substantial time changes but no other notification...so hopefully they read them carefully!

 

[madrooster]

VA7/VA8/VA23/VA24 are all being delayed. VH-VPD has been out of action in LAX since 24/06.

 

[WeeGraeme]

Yes, it seems a lot of people are just getting their standard flight reminder notifications with substantial time changes but no other notification...so hopefully they read them carefully!

Some people are not getting any notification. Friends of mine went to Brisbane Airport for the VA7 flight yesterday only to find out at the airport that it was delayed 11 hrs.

 

[Clivem]

Any word on when things will be back to 'normal' ..............? VA's going to add to their growing PR woes on this one ..............
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[elbarto]

Any word on when things will be back to 'normal' ..............? VA's going to add to their growing PR woes on this one ..............
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It's VA not Qantas so no one will care.

 

[Intra]

It's VA not Qantas so no one will care.

Ha, so sad yet so true - If this had been Qantas with these kinda of LAX/Oz Delays, it would have been all over the news....
Wouldn't have known about this without reading the forum!

 

[LiamR]

VA7/VA8/VA23/VA24 are all being delayed. VH-VPD has been out of action in LAX since 24/06.

Do you know why VPD is out of action?

 

[madrooster]

Do you know why VPD is out of action?

No sorry - but I am certainly curious (even though I don't fly VA) what suddenly broke VH-VPD given that it did VA1 without any real delays on 24/06.

 

[LiamR]

No sorry - but I am certainly curious (even though I don't fly VA) what suddenly broke VH-VPD given that it did VA1 without any real delays on 24/06.

It operated VA1? Well, LAX do have a reputation for backing airplanes into fences.

 

[LoveAR15s]

Monday when I was supposed to fly out at 1155pm to Brisbane from LAX, there was a line a mile long at the virgin desk and nobody knew what was going on. Didn't find out till 1215 our flight was delayed till noon the next day and didn't get to the hotel virgin furnished till after 1am. No luggage or clothes.

Returned to lax at 10am next day to be told all three of us were put on a Sydney flight at 1010pm that evening. Had to return to the hotel, taxi to a mall, and buy underwear and clothes.

Boarded the flight at 10pm, started a movie, movie ended before pushing from the gate around midnight. Missed connecting flight to Townsville in Sydney. Rerouted through bne from Sydney to be put in a holding pattern at bne. Missed AGAIN the Townsville flight.

All of this and virgin lost our luggage aka sent it to Brisbane instead of Sydney. Never ever flying virgin again despite them giving food vouchers and hotel rooms, the company's employees have no clue what is going on.

 

[Melburnian1]

LoveAR15s, you may mean that you did not find out until '0015' (hours) - just after midnight.

Today's VA7 from BNE to LAX is showing as departing at 2245, 11 and a half hours late from the timetabled 1115 this morning. Knock-on delays like this will always occur when airlines lack spares or when a plane goes 'tech' for beyond the allowed turnaround time. In fairness, this also occurs with QF: in recent weeks, there were one or two occasions where A380 flights were substantially delayed for a similar reason.

Depending on how much notice VA had, finding an hotel and arranging transport to get you into it by 0100 may be a fairly good effort.

That said, when severe delays occur, both QF and VA staff rapidly lose control. It's partly understandable, because they are faced with a deluge of unhappy passengers, some of whom want to retrieve luggage from the holds of planes, but overall, their handling of delays is less impressive than say rail operators whose staff have clear plans on what to do and how to handle passengers.

 

[LoveAR15s]

LoveAR15s, you may mean that you did not find out until '0015' (hours) - just after midnight.

Being an American and no longer in the Marines, i use times that most civilians are familiar with. I am sure you will understand.

 

[Melburnian1]

Many rail, air, coach and ferry operators use the logical 24 hour clock because it avoids confusion. For the military, confusion may have diabolical consequences: for travellers, missing a train, flight or coach because they misread a timetable might be perceived as 'diabolical' if there is a missed business appointment, wedding or funeral at the destination as a result. Many members of the public understand 24 hour clock. If you say '1215' it needs an 'am' or 'pm' after it to denote which one of the two '1215s' it is. Using 24 hour clock on fora like this is preferable.

 

[LoveAR15s]

I agree but "most" Americans and illegals in the US do not use 24hr formats (as well as the metric system) and my lack of am/pm has no excuse other than laziness on the ipad. Common sense goes a long way and is expected rather than an off topic debate of the obvious.

 

[day-heg]

Many rail, air, coach and ferry operators use the logical 24 hour clock because it avoids confusion. For the military, confusion may have diabolical consequences: for travellers, missing a train, flight or coach because they misread a timetable might be perceived as 'diabolical' if there is a missed business appointment, wedding or funeral at the destination as a result. Many members of the public understand 24 hour clock. If you say '1215' it needs an 'am' or 'pm' after it to denote which one of the two '1215s' it is. Using 24 hour clock on fora like this is preferable.

OT, but you are absolutely right, and as such it staggers me that VA chose to move to a 12hr clock on their website when they switched to Sabre, having used 24hrs previously. Very confusing...

 

[get me outta here]

Yep, I can count to 24 also.

The only time it gets stuffed up is when people start talking a 12 hour clock. We need t get people used to 24 (not on here, mostly of course). If an airline talks to me in 12 hour increments I ask them to say it in 24 hours.

In Copenhagen, I saw a shop stated it's opening hours as being 10-17. I though that was very sensible, so apparently other people can also follow it.

Plus, we have decimal currency here too.

 

[LoveAR15s]

I saw a shop stated it's opening hours as being 10-17. I though that was very sensible, so apparently other people can also follow it

Is common sense so far gone that you need a store to say 10-17 (which is not seen in the US) rather than 10-5? Doesnt COMMON sense dictate that it cant possibly mean 5am? I wondered how Australia gets railroaded by taxes and over regulation but then I see its hard to guess a retail store cant possibly open at 10am and close at 5am. Something I've never seen in my life.

Never has anyone I've known in my life shown up to a store at 4am thinking that 10-5 means 5am.

Trying to not be rude but this kind of stuff scares me from other humans who should be educated.


Back to topic please or ill need duct tape for my head about to explode.

 

[Lonely Flyer]

Can most Americans tell time at all.


It must be something major if a Boeing cannot be fixed quickly in US. Maybe it needs a new engine?

 

[Clivem]

VA8 LAX / BNE is now showing on time and is due to touch down 07:00 ish in Bris ......... The forward schd's also look good for VA7 / 8 / 23 /24 ......Would appears the wheels are back on .........

A bag of Brown M&M's for whom ever cracks the facts as to what actually went down here .........Virgin have been able to keep what went on behind the really heavy set of hanger doors ..........