SQ402|18JAN (SIN-DEL) operated by 9V-SCC diverted to Kolkata as a safety precaution due to fog at Delhi as some of its brakes were disabled due to a previous fault and its stopping distance was unknown.
Last edited by Not You; 20 January 2019, 06:08 PM.
Is there a reason why so many flights are delayed.I am booked on the SQ921 ( MNL-SIN) & SQ322 ( SIN-LHR ) on the 20/02
This thread is making things sound worse than they are- remember SQ would operate around a hundred flights a day. In all the flying I've done with SQ over the past 12 years, the longest I've ever been delayed is 2 hours and I've never once missed a connection in SIN.
Obviously it does happen from time to time when something technical or weather related happens, but it's a case of bad luck, not something to expect.
(Actually now that I think of it I was once delayed in London for a week, but SQ can't be held responsible for Icelandic volcanoes!)
Is there a reason why so many flights are delayed.I am booked on the SQ921 ( MNL-SIN) & SQ322 ( SIN-LHR ) on the 20/02
There actually is a reason, albeit an embarrassing one. There is a KPI monitoring board in SIA's office that has an actual percentage of on time departures and it always showed 100% the past months.
Unfortunately, the first digit burned out and there are no spares available. So, to hide this malfunction, they randomly choose a flight or two to delay to show a two digit on time departure rate.
There actually is a reason, albeit an embarrassing one. There is a KPI monitoring board in SIA's office that has an actual percentage of on time departures and it always showed 100% the past months.
Unfortunately, the first digit burned out and there are no spares available. So, to hide this malfunction, they randomly choose a flight or two to delay to show a two digit on time departure rate.
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