BA15 SIN - SYD lands, finally (after making pretty line drawings on the map)
Was watching this flight as had relatives on board...
Very strong winds and gusting, and pretty bumpy, their messages said.. Only one runway open at 5am in SYD and facing in the wrong direction, so the Captain had to circle for a whole hour and landed pretty much bang on 6am from the North, when another runway opened... Just out of interest - how much fuel will have been remaining, most likely, after an hour of circling? Clearly enough for it to be safe, but just wondered! You feel for the people in Y, who left LHR 23 hours ago, and just desperately - desperately - want to get out of their seats!!! https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d31db94112.png |
Another - somewhat rude - drawing from a flight: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...f1ddb8bee.jpeg |
There would likely be at least an hour or two of fuel on board when landing. CBR operates 24 hours a day and is an easy 20 minutes or so away, I imagine that would be the preferred diversion. I guess winds must have majorly shifted after departure from SIN, as usually BA would prefer a ground delay to the waste of fuel in an extended holding pattern.
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Originally Posted by LCY8737
(Post 31471239)
Another - somewhat rude - drawing from a flight: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...f1ddb8bee.jpeg |
Originally Posted by 747_not_777
(Post 31471083)
Very strong winds and gusting, and pretty bumpy, their messages said.. Only one runway open at 5am in SYD and facing in the wrong direction, so the Captain had to circle for a whole hour and landed pretty much bang on 6am from the North, when another runway opened...
Just out of interest - how much fuel will have been remaining, most likely, after an hour of circling? Clearly enough for it to be safe, but just wondered! |
Singapore is a busy place at that time of night. They would have just uplifted extra fuel to account for an extended hold waiting for a more appropriate runway to open.
It's quite a sad state of affairs. I personally am not a member of the green lobby but all this inefficiency is disappointing. At the end of the day the only people paying for the higher fuel burn is going to be the passengers. |
The OP is implying that the circling was due to winds/weather, however there is a hard curfew where the aircraft can't land before 6. So I'm surprised that the flight took off at the time they did. Maybe favourable winds meant an arrival much earlier than expected.
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No, BA15 and QF2 have exemption to land after 0500LT as long as they use northerly runway (approach over sea). Due to turbulence on approach this morning, BA discontinued approach and then both BA & QF held until 0600 for end of curfew for landing to south (approach over city).
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Indeed, BA quite often lands at SYD between 0500 and 0600. There has been a steady trend of more time spent single runway at Sydney, Badgery’s creek is intended to help with that in the longer term but there is also a suggestion that Kingsford Smith will remain open, with perhaps the new airport only taking freight and LCCs, which I would suggest would render it somewhat less helpful CBR has indeed been seeing a fair amount of diverted wide bodies, MEL and BNE also popular. CBR has quite high fees (and a militant approach to collecting those fees) in addition to weather concerns etc so I think it’s avoided if at all possible (smart, IMO) |
Originally Posted by Must...Fly!
(Post 31471989)
Singapore is a busy place at that time of night. They would have just uplifted extra fuel to account for an extended hold waiting for a more appropriate runway to open.
It's quite a sad state of affairs. I personally am not a member of the green lobby but all this inefficiency is disappointing. At the end of the day the only people paying for the higher fuel burn is going to be the passengers. It is a commercial choice of BA to schedule to arrive at that time - it is fully aware of the drawbacks that go with the benefits of being one of the 1st aeroplanes to land in the morning |
Wind at 0500 was southerly at 22 gusting 31 kts so probably over the 777 tailwind limit for this runway. BA's scheduled arrival time is 0510 and if there's any danger of arriving before 0500 they tend to hold on the ground in Singapore (which is a frequent occurrence and a bit of a pain after one has been hustled out of the lounge), and if it is likely that the northerly runway won't be suitable, they can of course carry ample fuel as this is a relatively short sector for the 777. It's far preferable to hold rather than to divert (esp to Canberra) if it's a curfew issue and Sydney ATC seem to be quite helpful in keeping first place in the queue for the full 0600 opening (look at FR24 for the late shove off approach of the JQ DRW arrival to clear the way for BA15 & QF2 this morning).
Haven't seen QF's proposed schedule for the non-stop from LHR but if similar to the present timings, it's going to be a tight fit between departing before the LHR night curfew and arriving after SYD opening time... https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sto...omali-pirates/ I think Badgery's (planned to be H24) will eventually do quite well with scheduled flights, not just by the LCCs. West & North Sydney are the growth areas for the city and quite a lot of high tech firms have moved out that way. Will probably start with leisure destinations and then develop its own catchment area for business traffic. A bit like LGW's growth perhaps? Caveat of course is the waste of opening an airport before the surface transport links are in place. |
Originally Posted by Bullswood
(Post 31472266)
Haven't seen QF's proposed schedule for the non-stop from LHR but if similar to the present timings, it's going to be a tight fit between departing before the LHR night curfew and arriving after SYD opening time... |
Originally Posted by Bullswood
(Post 31472080)
No, BA15 and QF2 have exemption to land after 0500LT as long as they use northerly runway (approach over sea). Due to turbulence on approach this morning, BA discontinued approach and then both BA & QF held until 0600 for end of curfew for landing to south (approach over city).
I’m kidding, obviously!! |
Originally Posted by nancypants
(Post 31472196)
There has been a steady trend of more time spent single runway at Sydney ...
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Originally Posted by Dave Noble
(Post 31472341)
Sounds like it would be easy to schedule to leave at 13:00 and arrive into Sydney at about 19:00 at this time of year for a fairly civilised departure and arrival time
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