BNE closed, airport incursion of some type.

[david1300]

Originally Posted by mikethepomme

david1300

You are a little off on the times. From what I heard general delays that night were about 30 minutes when you first arrived.

You departed OOL for BN about 15 minutes before the security incident and the airport was shut down... and were only about 5 minutes from landing when they pulled the pin.

Here are your two flights.

Singapore Airlines (SQ) #245 ? 08-Jul-2014 ? WSSS / SIN - YBBN / BNE ? FlightAware
Singapore Airlines (SQ) #245 ? 08-Jul-2014 ? YBCG / OOL - YBBN / BNE ? FlightAware

Really unfortunate timing for you guys, but you might notice you didn't hold into brissy at all on your initial flight, just diverted. The 2nd flight you may have gotten a bit dizzy.

Thanks for that, Mike. The big (slow) loop we flew down past My Warning and into enemy (NSW) territory to OOL was mistaken by me a being in hold over BNE - not at a window seat and not able to see the ground/landmarks I don't wear a watch, but my wife is really punctilious about setting her watch to our destination time and watching the time (see what I did there )

I see that our planned distance on our original flight was 5,897 km and actually flown was 6,696 km - extra 799 km (13.5%) (Direct: 6,150 km Planned: 5,897 km Flown: 6,696 km) an extra 430 nm actually flown - that would have taken us to Sydney if required (approx 400 nm BNE to SYD)

On our first flight from OOL to BNE we traveled a further 857 km - should I put in a claim for extra Kris Flyer miles, I wonder