I don't think anyone said QF were not meeting any requirements. What they do is perfectly legal.
The question is, is legal sensible?
6 aircraft may have had alternates yesterday and that's fantastic ('cos they needed it). But why did one not have one?
It's not unreasonable to think that a fuel policy where one airline has two autolands in two weeks due to "no gas to go anywhere else" should be the subject of discussion.
I've worked very closely alongside BOM (and seconded QF met. personnel) in the past and they are a good team. Yes some better than others, but they can only write what the models tell them with an amount of hunch thrown in. Weather forecasting will never be perfect and blaming them is not really helping your cause.
Last edited by compressor stall; 29th May 2013 at 05:50.