Chaos At Fajs Tonight As Airport Is Closed

[CALCULATOR]

Just heard ORT international was closed at 17h30z tonight due to no parking bays being available .All local and international flights diverting.The shocking weather and thunderstorms in the area has caused a huge backlog. Runway 21L closed due to an Emergency( any body got any idea what this was.) Also somebody landed with a medical emergency?

One can tell from the controllers tone/ panic(mainly tower) at times its been a :mad: late afternoon/evening.

[nugpot]

Runway 21L closed due to an Emergency( any body got any idea what this was.)

AFAIK a SAX DH8 burst a tire on landing.

Mango had a medical emergency into CPT. Don't know about one into JNB, but if I was a pax in that Wx, I would probably have an anxiety attack.............

Wind at the airport reported at 50 kts as we went past from MPM to CPT. Was just glad to go somewhere else, everybody around JNB diverting.

[Deltad]

At 1400B there was already a 40min delay for start and another 30 min wait for takeoff at the runway. Come on 2010....

[Petrovsky]

ORT (PAOR) – Northway Airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northway_Airport) – Northway, Alaska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northway%2C_Alaska), United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States):E:E:E

[grgplanes]

Come on 2010....

Where does this sentence fit in??? This is weather related, an act of god! Could just as well have been LHR, where 30 to 40min delays isn't unusual, infact alot of the time it's the norm, 24hours, 7days a week!
Pessimism isn't necessary!

[Goldfish Jack]

Deltad

Time u got a life - u ever flown around there in that weather and u ever been in the ATCC with weather like that?

Seems like u need to get a life - nothing in the world is going to prevent a thunderstorm of those magnitudes delaying flights.

[KeithO]

Petrovsky, fyi - Joburg International (FAJS) was renamed "Oliver R Tambo International Airport" last year, hence ORT - corrector designator still FAJS.

[126,7]

JNB is Johannesburg. ORT is possibly somewhere in Alsaka. KMIA is Miami but it also refers to Kruger Park. IATA, ICAO, local slang....who knows what the other guy is talking about.

[flyboy2]

2007-11-17 15:23Johannesburg -
Stormy weather wrought havoc at OR Tambo International airport on Friday, delaying flights and inconveniencing passengers, the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) said on Saturday.
"There were 163 (plane) delays on arrivals, and a further 215 delays on departure," ACSA spokesperson Tasniem Patel said.

She said the bad weather had affected visibility, and disrupted air traffic control because of problems with the radar.

Three South African Airways flights, arriving to OR Tambo International, had to be diverted to other airports.

"Flights coming from Cape Town and Mauritius had to diverted to Durban International, and another arrival from East London, had to land at Lanseria airport," said SAA spokesperson Sarah Uys.

Two other planes scheduled to travel to Durban, were grounded at the airport overnight.

Dave Sleeps, a passenger on the flight to Durban who was forced to stay overnight at the airport, described the incident as frustrating.

"Nobody told us about what was happening... All we could do was sit and monitor the screens - telling us that our flight had been delayed, and then cancelled. SAA did not even provide accommodation," Sleeps said.

Uys said she apologised for the inconvenience caused by SAA.

"I apologise on behalf of the SAA team leaders who should have informed passengers about the flight cancellations," Uys said.
SAPA
http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=755939

When reading the Africa Forum, how can other scatterbrains associate ORTIA [ FAJS] with places in other parts of the world?

[Jamex]

When reading the Africa Forum, how can other scatterbrains associate ORTIA [ FAJS] with places in other parts of the world?

The same people who think we are referring to San Antonio Airways in the US when we refer to SAA?

[battman]

clear reetaardayshon

[Petrovsky]

I have to agree ORTIA is now probably a common acronym in this part of the furum at least but if you don't know FAJS and you look up the IATA designator ORT, you get.......:ooh: