16-hour Air New Zealand flight to nowhere caps a ‘wild’ journey for one frequent flyer | Mahaz News



Mahaz News
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It’s the stuff of nightmares. You’re attempting to get someplace, you’ve prepped and deliberate and also you’re doing all your greatest and but you find yourself proper again the place you began.

That’s about what occurred to frequent flyer Bryan Gottlieb and his fellow Air New Zealand passengers on Thursday when their deliberate journey from Auckland to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was disrupted by {an electrical} outage on the airport.

JFK’s Terminal 1 was closed and among the flights scheduled to land there needed to be diverted. Some worldwide flights landed at different airports: Newark, Washington Dulles, Boston Logan.

Gottlieb’s flight, ANZ2, circled mid-flight and landed again in Auckland, greater than 16 hours after departing the identical airport. Flight monitoring web site FlightConscious logs a whole flying time of 16 hours and 25 minutes, with the airplane turning again roughly midway by its scheduled journey.

“I was sleeping pretty soundly, and I woke up with the feeling that I would surely be landing in JFK soon,” Gottlieb mentioned in a message to Mahaz News Travel. Then “the passenger next to me tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘did you know we’re almost back in Auckland?’”

Gottlieb mentioned his fellow passenger gave him the news two or three hours earlier than the airplane was set to land. An announcement in regards to the diversion didn’t come till the flight was nearly again in New Zealand, he mentioned, though “you could see our route on the tracker, and word had spread around.”

He mentioned when the pilot made the announcement, “he acknowledged that part of the decision was based on schedule efficiency for the airline, and that the lack of crew at an airport near JFK would have caused the airline further delays.”

The passengers weren’t completely satisfied.

“Everyone on that plane would have much preferred to be in any airport in the US, to say nothing of Newark or LaGuardia right in the same general area,” mentioned Gottlieb, a sport designer who was headed house from a five-week work journey to hitch the tail finish of his brother’s bachelor celebration journey.

Air New Zealand mentioned Thursday in a press release to Mahaz News Travel that “diverting to another US port would have meant the aircraft would remain on the ground for several days, impacting a number of other scheduled services and customers.”

At the time, the flight was nonetheless en route again to Auckland, and the airline mentioned its group was prepared to help its prospects with rebooking on the following accessible service.

“We apologise for the inconvenience and thank our customers for their patience and understanding,” the assertion mentioned. Mahaz News reached out to the airline for extra particulars on Friday however didn’t instantly hear again.

Gottlieb, who lives in New York, spent eight hours on the airport in Auckland ready for his subsequent flight out to Los Angeles, the place he was set to connect with JFK. Air New Zealand supplied him with $100 price of meal vouchers, however he didn’t have any luck shopping for his manner right into a loyalty membership lounge to clean up in Auckland. He hadn’t heard about different compensation on the time he communicated with Mahaz News.

The diverted flight was Gottlieb’s second try at getting house. His authentic flight again to the States on Monday was canceled because of the devastating cyclone that struck New Zealand this week. His spouse’s plans to hitch him for the final two weeks of his keep have been foiled when her flight was canceled as a consequence of airport flooding in Auckland on the finish of January.

With the 16-hour Auckland to Auckland delay, he missed the bachelor celebration altogether. As far as journeys go, “it was a wild one for sure!”

Gottlieb mentioned he’s upset with the airline’s response “at a corporate level,” however encountered very useful airline employees.

“This is certainly the worst travel experience I’ve ever had, but ultimately, these things do happen, and I always try to keep in mind that none of the people I’m interacting with had anything to do with the decisions that delayed me — they’re all just doing their best and they were legitimately kind.”

And New Zealand is one among Gottlieb’s favourite locations.

“The people and region are both lovely. I sure do wish it was a little closer though.”

Source web site: www.cnn.com

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