Homo Aeroportus wrote:Seems today the domino effect has even aggravated as JAF/TB 601 left this afternoon, a 7-hour delay on the 09:05 STD.
Let's skip tomorrow Q&A then.
Cheers.
H.A.
Hmm ... I think the domino effect is not yet finished for the OO-JDL
I booked a flight for PUJ tomorrow (23/12) STD 15:45 ...
Please my old faithful OO-JAP could you help me
galaxy wrote:OO-JAF BRU to Cancun took off today at 21.17 instead of 12.55 . It is now a A340-300 ( CS-TQM Air Algérie ) instead of the B787
What happend ?
To clear the huge delay of the OO-JDL, Jetairfly decided to operate the flight to Cancun with the CS-TQM.
So now the flight JAF203 to PUJ is scheduled at 15:45 as initially
That's another evidence that Jetairfly do their best in such cases :clap:
Short summary: through an APU problem, the return flight of OO-JDL was delayed. Instead of waiting for a repair on site, Jetairfly decided to charter another aircraft (the HiFly A340), but the crew had to wait at destination for the legal rest hours. Therefore, passengers will arrive at BRU tonight with a 24hrs delay. They will be compensated by Jetair: enough money to go to a starred restaurant.
In short:
1- the planned 787 broke down and couldnt leave the Dominican Republic.
2- replacement sent but without second crew, so additional delay upon arrival in Mexico to allow rest.
3- departed Mexico, but once in flight a stop in the Dom. Rep in order to pick up passengers was denied, so it returned back to Mexico!
4- problem cleared out, so the plane is now on its way to BRU with all passengers, but with a delay of more than 40 hours.
Short summary: through an APU problem, the return flight of OO-JDL was delayed. Instead of waiting for a repair on site, Jetairfly decided to charter another aircraft (the HiFly A340), but the crew had to wait at destination for the legal rest hours. Therefore, passengers will arrive at BRU tonight with a 24hrs delay. They will be compensated by Jetair: enough money to go to a starred restaurant.
HiFly A340 was not allowed to land in Cuba, then flew back to Cancun, where the airport was "closed", no staff to handle flight and no steps to the aircraft....
OO-JDL came back with a delay from Punta Cana early this week and there was already a cumulated delay due to an earlier medical emergency last week and because of the tight schedule, they were still operating with a cumulated delay. That APU problem in Punta Cana resulted in JAF deciding to not wait for OO-JDL and instead use a Hifly aircraft to Cancun/Varadero. But that aircraft got stuck due to the lack of a crew to fly back (so they had to wait 24h for the crew to have their rest and fly back). But than there was the Cuba problem so they had to fly back to Cancun and try again later. Meanwhile OO-JDL was back in perfect condition and operated a new return flight to Punta Cana/Santa Domingo from which it returned today on time.
The media is mixing things up.
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Unbelievable,
I agree with romax,.... How Can media mix up different things?
B787 jaf has the best record you Can imagine, compared with other Dreamliners, not talking about the less recent Aircrafts in Belgium.
Media mix up things, Because they need news, topics, aside of the normal x mas eve topics like, Bob Controls, Traiteurs busy, x mas speechs of King Philippe, etc.....
Vtm, chame on you not Being informed better,
The Dreamliner may have a good punctuality record, but Jetairfly definitely has not.
And Jetairfly is famous not only for its delays, but also for its reluctance to pay any compensation to its customers...
With all the options available out of CUN, why didn't JAF rebook the pax on alternative itineraries and send the hifly directly into Cuba? Obviously they wanted to do it the cheap way and in addition it's giving them free publicity on the media.
I'm not sure the 250 pax will give them good publicity though.
I'd be really pissed if it happened to me.
Flanker2 wrote:With all the options available out of CUN, why didn't JAF rebook the pax on alternative itineraries and send the hifly directly into Cuba? Obviously they wanted to do it the cheap way and in addition it's giving them free publicity on the media.
But same would have happened in Cuba, no crew available for the return flight and stuck for 24h. Altough maybe they could have left earlier and missed the storm weather (and with that the second part of this whole delay) I'm not completely aware of when exactly that problem was there and for how long.
There might have been a better choice (although finding enough seats on alternative (and still 'convenient') flights from Cancun to BRU for 257 passengers is not exactly an easy task in winter time right before Christmas when everyone wants to get back to Europe and also don't forget the passengers that were taken from BRU to Cancun/Varadero, it's not only about the pax going back), but JAF did wat every airline would have done. Searching for a quick solution, having an A340 on stand-by at BRU seems like a great solution...except when it has only one crew for all sectors of the flight...
I know a travel agent who had several customers on that flight, on rather expensives holidays, some of them with young children. He braces already himself for their reactions, which he is sure to get very soon. They won't be happy, it's the least that can be said, and they'll make it known frankly ....
