percysmith

In HKG or DPS/Europe (which volcano eruption were you effected by)?

DeepUnderground

Connecting in HKG on the way to DPS

percysmith

Nice but I remember they couldn't keep this up when more passengers got stranded.

DeepUnderground

As I noted in a post at the time, I would pass it up next time anyway. Loaded into a bus with everyone else and hauled into Central to then wait in line for 1 hour for check in with exhausted kiddos. No thanks, next time will just take care of myself at Regal or Marriot.

Cambo

If the passenger originated (and did fly on one PNR), CX was obliged to do so, according EC261/2004.

There are reasons, Europe is a nice environment to live

garykung

I would say this makes more sense.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. But still 1 CAT III is not enough as many runways in major airports are CAT III by design.

Cambo

Yes and No. For CAT III (and also somewhat CAT II), it is not only a matter of design and equipment, though also about "space available". For CAT III, the airport needs to allocate a lot of unoccupied space around the runway, free of obstacles, including taxiing airplanes. If that space is not available, then forget the CAT III.

Can you remember the SQ runway excursion at MUC in 2011 ? That was due to the pilots doing a CAT III "rehearsal" approach, without announcing as such to the Tower. The consequence was that a previously departing airplane flew through the Localizer beam (at the far end of the runway !) and the CAT III autoland followed the distorted signal, with the runway excursion as a result. The same applies for other metal chunks somewhere around the runway, these do influence (ie bent) the Localizer and Glideslope beams, with the result that the CAT III airplane starts to deviate from the visually straight course. CAT III is quite sensitive for disturbances. As such, CAT III throughput is also quite low.

jagmeets