AKL running out of Jet Fuel
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AKL running out of Jet Fuel
Seems bizarre that they don't have a plan B. It could last 10-14 days! That's a lot of cancelled flights for Air NZ if the fuel is out that long. Emirates are operating their AKL - DUB via CHC, must be impacting available fuel already.
Do airlines have insurance policies for this sort of thing?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11923227
Do airlines have insurance policies for this sort of thing?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11923227
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Hum, where does the farmer stand in all of this after letting his digger damage the pipeline (as reported by Radio NZ today) ? They also mentioned that the leak had disgorged the equivalent of two fuel tankers' worth. That's going to make a mess of the farmer's field.
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Standard Auckland infrastructure problem, I'm afraid. This is the city that 20 years ago had an electricity outage in the CBD that lasted for five weeks.
To some extent it's because Auckland has grown very fast indeed, and the infrastructure in all sorts of areas hasn't kept up. Mostly, I fear, because local politicians don't want to raise rates, and national politicians and bureaucrats aren't in Auckland, and many hate the place; but the pace of development would have needed to be pretty brisk.
It's also true that NZ is a long, thin, country, that makes the routing of genuinely redundant services a bit difficult.
To some extent it's because Auckland has grown very fast indeed, and the infrastructure in all sorts of areas hasn't kept up. Mostly, I fear, because local politicians don't want to raise rates, and national politicians and bureaucrats aren't in Auckland, and many hate the place; but the pace of development would have needed to be pretty brisk.
It's also true that NZ is a long, thin, country, that makes the routing of genuinely redundant services a bit difficult.
Standard Auckland infrastructure problem, I'm afraid. This is the city that 20 years ago had an electricity outage in the CBD that lasted for five weeks.
To some extent it's because Auckland has grown very fast indeed, and the infrastructure in all sorts of areas hasn't kept up. Mostly, I fear, because local politicians don't want to raise rates, and national politicians and bureaucrats aren't in Auckland, and many hate the place; but the pace of development would have needed to be pretty brisk.
It's also true that NZ is a long, thin, country, that makes the routing of genuinely redundant services a bit difficult.
To some extent it's because Auckland has grown very fast indeed, and the infrastructure in all sorts of areas hasn't kept up. Mostly, I fear, because local politicians don't want to raise rates, and national politicians and bureaucrats aren't in Auckland, and many hate the place; but the pace of development would have needed to be pretty brisk.
It's also true that NZ is a long, thin, country, that makes the routing of genuinely redundant services a bit difficult.
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AKL out of fuel?
Damage to a fuel pipeline in New Zealand has lead to flight changes in and out of New Zealand.
[URL="https://www.stuff.co.nz/.../a-cut-pipeline-is-causing-a-jet-fuel-shortage-at- auckland-airport-heres-what-we-know-so-far"[/URL]
Many flights out of AKL are very long range, and will now require fuel stops at other airports, in or out of NZ. What effect will this have on crew schedules, etc?
[URL="https://www.stuff.co.nz/.../a-cut-pipeline-is-causing-a-jet-fuel-shortage-at- auckland-airport-heres-what-we-know-so-far"[/URL]
Many flights out of AKL are very long range, and will now require fuel stops at other airports, in or out of NZ. What effect will this have on crew schedules, etc?
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Effect on crewing?
Intermediate fuel stops will extend flight times for already long non-stops to Doha, Singapore, KL, Bangkok, Houston, Buenas Aires, etc. How will this affect crew times and deployments?
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Air NZ must be wishing they still had at least one747. An empty 747 fuelled to MLW can import an awful lot of fuel but they must also have the know-how and equipment to transfer the fuel to other aircraft.
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Must be a terrible design if so easily interrupted and absolute madness that an entire airport would rely entirely on only one pipeline (never heard of redundancy and contingency planning?)
I agree, however.
Emirates Auckland-Dubai is stopping in Melbourne for nearly 2hrs enroute to refuel and change crews, and that's for the rest of the week also.
Looks like Qatar is going all the way currently abeam PHE.
Looks like Qatar is going all the way currently abeam PHE.
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They've heard of it, but rejected it after a cost-benefit analysis. It shows the weakness of pure MBA style management, but not naivety. BTW, I see that Melbourne is also having a fuel shortage. In some situations, single points of failure are quite expensive to avoid.
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Parrott is correct - lots of airports worldwide are in the same boat TBH
Two pipelines is twice the cost and four times the legal challenges and aggravation - then you have to leave one empty or spend time balancing flow between the two...
One issue is just how deep it was buried and how it was marked.... clealry a fault in both.
But the farmer had probably forgotten about it and the contractor didn't look
As for repairing large diameter oil pipelines I'd rather trust a Canadian expert who does it day in, day out than some local plumber
Two pipelines is twice the cost and four times the legal challenges and aggravation - then you have to leave one empty or spend time balancing flow between the two...
One issue is just how deep it was buried and how it was marked.... clealry a fault in both.
But the farmer had probably forgotten about it and the contractor didn't look
As for repairing large diameter oil pipelines I'd rather trust a Canadian expert who does it day in, day out than some local plumber
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