Comments on: KLM Skips New Hyderabad Airport http://www.counterjumper.com/2008/03/24/klm-skips-new-hyderabad-airport/ Highlighting the Web Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: KarmaDude http://www.counterjumper.com/2008/03/24/klm-skips-new-hyderabad-airport/#comment-14762 KarmaDude Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:33:16 +0000 http://www.counterjumper.com/2008/03/24/klm-skips-new-hyderabad-airport/#comment-14762 Jason, thank you for the passenger perspective on this. How long were you on the flight? Jason, thank you for the passenger perspective on this. How long were you on the flight?

]]> By: Jason http://www.counterjumper.com/2008/03/24/klm-skips-new-hyderabad-airport/#comment-14761 Jason Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:43:42 +0000 http://www.counterjumper.com/2008/03/24/klm-skips-new-hyderabad-airport/#comment-14761 I was on the flight and the article is not actually accurate. During the entire 10 hour flight the captain would give us updates about whether the new airport was actually open or not (it had been delayed several times). He confirmed it was as we descended. There was low cloud cover, and at the last minute he abandoned the landing. We circled for 25 minutes and tried again, still fog, abandoned again. He came on the PA and said based on lack of fuel, fog, and what he said was lack of working instruments from the airport itself, we had to divert. We got half way to Delhi, they said there were no hotels there, and we went to Mumbai instead. 4.5 hours on the tarmac later, we went to a hotel for the day, came back, took off again, and finally landed 24 hours later at Hyderabad. I had a colleuge on the Lufthansa flight which was the first to land, and another which took off a day later than I did and beat me to the baggage claim. The KLM plane was an MD11 which is acient. So I'm guessing there was an instrument mismatch between the airport and the plane which caused the confusion... I was on the flight and the article is not actually accurate. During the entire 10 hour flight the captain would give us updates about whether the new airport was actually open or not (it had been delayed several times). He confirmed it was as we descended. There was low cloud cover, and at the last minute he abandoned the landing. We circled for 25 minutes and tried again, still fog, abandoned again. He came on the PA and said based on lack of fuel, fog, and what he said was lack of working instruments from the airport itself, we had to divert. We got half way to Delhi, they said there were no hotels there, and we went to Mumbai instead. 4.5 hours on the tarmac later, we went to a hotel for the day, came back, took off again, and finally landed 24 hours later at Hyderabad. I had a colleuge on the Lufthansa flight which was the first to land, and another which took off a day later than I did and beat me to the baggage claim.

The KLM plane was an MD11 which is acient. So I’m guessing there was an instrument mismatch between the airport and the plane which caused the confusion…

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