Canberra Alternate

[rjtjrt]

Canberra fog this am so some diversions.
They seem to be going to Melbourne rather than Sydney which is closer.
Both Mel and Syd have excellent weather.
Not sure why they go to more distant airport?
Is it a difference in hold requirement for Syd vs Mel, or airport cost. Can't imagine gate availability would be reason but maybe.

[porch monkey]

Gate availability and recovery would be the 2 biggest considerations. Once you get behind in SYD, especially early mornings when it is at one of the busiest periods of the day, you never get that back.

[AerocatS2A]

Sydney had fog on the TAF this morning. Might have had something to do with it.

[neville_nobody]

Amazing how in 2017 this is still acceptable. The amount of money airlines/passengers pay to operate in this country and the level of service given by the airports is woeful.

It is also interesting how people are banging on about autonomous aircraft and the like, yet this country can't even get 1960's technology up and running because we can't afford it.

[framer]

You'd be fairly silly to divert to a field forecasting fog like YSSY was this morning.

[rjtjrt]

Syd TAF fog sounds like a good reason.

[AerialPerspective]

Originally Posted by porch monkey

Gate availability and recovery would be the 2 biggest considerations. Once you get behind in SYD, especially early mornings when it is at one of the busiest periods of the day, you never get that back.

Also if it results in an additional aircraft overnight in SYD, SYD charge for overnight parking, MEL don't.

[Capt Fathom]

Morning diversions to MEL and overnight parking charges in SYD? You're drawing a long bow there!!

[AerialPerspective]

Originally Posted by Capt Fathom

Morning diversions to MEL and overnight parking charges in SYD? You're drawing a long bow there!!

Not really, flight diverts, can't get out in reasonable time, aircraft terminates, pax put on next SYD-CBR service, it's happened.

[Raider1]

I am sure that the reason was the fact that had the aircraft landed in Canberra on schedule, the next sector was Canberra/ Melbourne. By diverting to Mel the aircraft was then able to resume its normal schedule without delay to the rest of the days flying.