Originally Posted by tuapekastar
Article in today's
Melbourne Age written by a pax on the flight. He alleges they spent 12 unfed, unwatered hours in the plane at JFK!!
From article:
As flight 108 crossed the international dateline, the captain said we only had been given the "partial truth" for the diversion to New Zealand.
It seemed Qantas ground staff in LA had failed to inform the crew that our flight was delayed until 2.30am. They had been bussed to the airport at 9pm, and crew work limits had automatically come into effect.
Absolutely hopeless, useless, incompetent, complete mis-management, making a difficult situation unnecessarily worse.
But decent of Captain to be honest about it.