by Booney » Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:44 pm
Take off from Perth 12:55 Local time. Level out, 15 minutes later :
"This is the Captain speaking, we have a small problem with the air craft *blah blah blah* nothing to concerned about, but we have to go back to Perth"
WTF?
"We also need to burn off enough fuel to land safely, we will be circling off the West coast of Perth for approx. 2 hours, with the landing gear down, to burn extra fuel."
We land back in Perth 3:45 local time. They ( QANTAS ) find us another plane, bumping another Adelaide flight back, and we depart Perth at 4:40 local time to arrive in Adelaide at 10:40pm.
I'm happy they look at safety as a prority,I'm glad they found us another plane and we didn't get stuck in Perth ( could have if we had not taken off by 6:30 with time differences / curfews ) but man it shit me how long a day Friday was....this after two solid days on the grog.
If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.