JL005, JL017, JL061 on April 2 2012 delayed till April 3 due to strong wind at NRT

Discussion in 'JAL | Mileage Bank' started by JALPak, Apr 2, 2012.

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    kw335 Silver Member

    Those are some long delays for wx reasons! Wonder if they compensate these pax?
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    JALPak Gold Member

    Strong wind is expected in the evening at around those flights' arrival time. No idea about compensation as it is due to weather which is beyond JAL's control
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    JALPak Gold Member

    NH's LAX-NRT is enroute but expected to arrive about an hour late...why did JAL delay it till the next day!? :confused:
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    joejones Silver Member

    Supposedly the typhoon-force winds are going to be in the 15:00 to 21:00 time frame today.

    Also, "Western Time?"
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    JALPak Gold Member

    Yea stupid! But I don't get it why NH's LAX-NRT flight isn't delayed till tomorrow? Are they planning to just diver to CTS? Why didn't JAL do that?

    So are they going to use the Euro config 773 on tomorrow's US flight and use US config 773 on Euro flight the next day? :eek:
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    QSG Gold Member

    Might be worried about another "hull" loss, like what happened on Saturday !
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    JALPak Gold Member

    they are really proactive in canceling their flights this time lol I guess that's better for the passengers so they know for sure it's cancelled and not have to wait at the airport and can make plans ahead of time
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    joejones Silver Member

    Bloomberg just bleeped that ANA is up to 275 domestic cancellations, with 33,600 passengers affected. But their international flights don't seem to be affected at all yet.
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    QSG Gold Member

    There is a video on Youtube of last Saturday's attempted landings.......Fumitani would have loved it!:p
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    fumitani Gold Member

    i saw it! I would have loved to be a passenger on it!
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    QSG Gold Member

    The national news provider is showing much fewer that what you quote above!
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    QSG Gold Member

    I was on a flight like that to TPE on CI ! I never flew CI after that :eek:.......
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    fumitani Gold Member

    i never ever want to fly CI :p
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    QSG Gold Member

    The flight was 30,000 JPY cheaper than the non-stop on TG and on the way back we got a free night in TPE !:p
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    JALPak Gold Member

    OMG fumitani you would love to be the pax! I don't want to be ever on flights like this. The 2nd landing is even more scary than the go around one. And this was 2 days ago...you could only imagine how it would be like today :eek:

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    fumitani Gold Member

    I so wanna land like that!
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    JALPak Gold Member

    Fly to TYO today!!!
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    fumitani Gold Member

    can't...

    1. I have no reason to go to TYO
    2. most flights are cancelled
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    JALPak Gold Member

    reason? to land like this!
    not when u fly out earlier.
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    joejones Silver Member

    Add to that the fact that the bridge to KIX and the train to UKB are both shut down, and I would expect that the Osaka Monorail is out of service as well.

    The metro is still generally running ok in Tokyo, but most of the surface lines are messed up somehow.
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    fumitani Gold Member

    yet all planes are departing and arriving almost all ontime :eek:

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