Missing final leg on Finnair
Aug 16, 2016, 10:20 am
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...and yet the last 4 dates as provided by yourself show delays of, respectively, 2h48m, 4h34m, 8h34m and 8h09m.
Not shown on your list is 9AUG when the flight arrived with a delay of 2h19m.
Not shown on your list is 9AUG when the flight arrived with a delay of 2h19m.
Aug 16, 2016, 10:33 am
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What FR24 lists as the jan7 flight is probably the jan 6 flight, being delayed past midnight and thus listed as jan 7. If you look closer there is no Jan 8 flight listed on FR24.
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And indeed AY69 of Jan 6 was flown by OH-LQB. So FR24 lacks the important data - I assume they just collect en masse and throws away data they cannot interpret. And they list the flight under what date they first saw it and do not cross-reference time table data.
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And indeed AY69 of Jan 6 was flown by OH-LQB. So FR24 lacks the important data - I assume they just collect en masse and throws away data they cannot interpret. And they list the flight under what date they first saw it and do not cross-reference time table data.
Last edited by intuition; Aug 16, 2016 at 10:38 am
Aug 16, 2016, 10:49 am
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The issue was not delays in general, but how often departure of AY69 has been delayed till next morning, and risks OP to be rerouted on AY81 to SIN and onwards to SGN instead of AY69 to HKG.
Aug 16, 2016, 12:58 pm
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Yes, it is correct that AY69 is the flight mostly affected if something goes wrong, but after all it is not very common.But in some cases, the consequences are bigger. Let me give you an example. I'm planning a trip to Fiji next summer. My options are HEL-SIN-NAN or HEL-HKG-NAN. The latter would be ideal since AY lands at 14:30 and FJ departs 16:55. But I'm not considering this a viable alternative since the 8-hour delay, while perhaps not very likely, is still very much possible and would ruin the plans. There are only five weeklies HKG-NAN and there's no guarantee that they'll have empty seats in J the next day. So HEL-SIN-NAN, with a schedule that's a lot worse and with only two weeklies on FJ, will have be my choice.
As for MANCHESTER's case, I have no idea how bad the consequences of such a delay on AY69 would have for him but I definitely think this is something for him – and all of us, for that matter – to bear in mind when planning.
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