Do we have to read this again; this has been covered in great length over the past few months.
Z Force
Five minutes extra? More like twenty five minutes.
You say 25 minutes extra flight time,
VB have not changed their flight paths. Forrest has always been listed as an adequate airport. When ETOPS procedures commenced the flight paths were the same just no longer holding Forrest as an adequate airport, only because is was not required.
Give me a break, how many flights in Australia require ETOPS, not many at all. Eg: MEL – BNE, MEL – SYD, MEL – CNS, and MEL – ADL. Have all these flights been impacted by this one-hour rule?