Reasons for flight cancellation from Sydney to Santiago de Chile on June165438+1October 13, 2022

Qantas is struggling to cope with the nightmare queuing problem at Melbourne Airport this morning, and the flight was grounded due to a nationwide computer failure on Sunday night.

According to the Herald Sun, today, passengers planning to fly from Melbourne to Sydney have a long queue at Melbourne Airport, and the queue has been winding to the international terminal, while airlines are trying to cope with the "domino effect" caused by IT failures.

There were 22 cancellations at Melbourne Airport this morning, including 8 Qantas flights, 5 Emirates and Virgin Atlantic flights, 2 American flights and 1 British Airways flights. These flights are scheduled to take off between 6: 30 this morning and 7: 00 this evening.

Christine Ahern, an Australian media reporter at the scene, said, "The queue at the service desk is also quite long, because three flights to Sydney have been cancelled and passengers are expecting other flights again."

According to Qantas, the failure started at 2: 30pm yesterday, and at least 10 flight was affected. This morning, many people posted on Twitter complaining that the flight was cancelled. Qantas' recent troubles have also led many people to call for the CEO Alan Joyce to step down.

In addition, due to rising fuel costs, Qantas was forced to suspend the schedule of several flights, and the prices of some domestic flights also rose. Each ticket rose by about 10, because aviation fuel rose by 28% in 2022, and the price soared to about 208 Australian dollars per barrel.

Andrew David, Qantas' domestic and international CEO, admitted that there will be fewer flights in July and August. He said: "We are a national airline, people have high expectations of us, and we also have high expectations of ourselves. Obviously, in the past few months, we have not reached our pre-epidemic level. " David pointed out that in order to alleviate the operational pressure, some flights will continue to be reduced next month.