Originally Posted by
faheel
Yep , my son who was on the flight sent a one word email ..weather !!
But from what I could find from flight aware the wx at scheduled arrival time was vfr, but dunno how to find past metar, speci or tafs for vhhh.
Both the actual and forecast at the point they'd have had to make their decision included thunderstorms. They did not rate a mention on any earlier weather.
On a similar question, I seem to remember QF never used to carry alternate fuel but 60 mins fixed reserve plus any tempo or inter fuel reserves as the case may be.
Is that still the case ?.
That was never their fuel policy, though they do not arbitrarily carry alternates.