Bangkok Thai flight Cancelled

August 25, 2016 by David Herd

Brisbane airport railway station

Bangkok Thai flight Cancelled, I have flown thousands of times throughout my life and this was the first time I ever experienced a cancelled flight. As Newton would say “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Well here is how it applied to me, I was telling my friends about my good fortune flying to Brisbane from Bangkok, the row in front and behind me had 3 people occupying the seats. However I had 3 seats to myself and was able to lay across them and catch some sleep which was fantastic given the flight left at midnight. I arrived at the station above feeling quite refreshed after the 9 hour flight.

The return flight was quite different

Perhaps it was the ominous black cloud hovering above the Qantas plane when I arrived at Brisbane at 11.30 am Tuesday August 22nd for my 2 pm departure. At 1 pm they announced there was a technical fault with the aircraft and departure would be at 3 pm.

Another announcement at 2.30

Thai Airways advise there will be a further delay while engineers endeavor to fix the problem.

Around 3.15 there was more news

We now are told the flight will leave at 4 PM. Hallelujah, we have been waiting at the gate for nearly 4 hours and were getting very frustrated indeed. 🙂 Photo credit to Panuwat.s.

Brisbane Bangkok Thai flight Cancelled,

The knockout blow came around 4.30,

The flight is now cancelled please return to customs then retrieve your luggage and line up at the check in counter.

Back to Brisbane city

Thai Air provided buses to take us to the Ibis Hotel in Turbot Street Brisbane. They paid for our room plus allocated $30 for dinner and $15 for breakfast the next morning. Personally I was not too inconvenienced, sure it was a day out of my life however many people missed connecting flights to Europe and other destinations. At the end of the day I would rather wait an extra day than risk flying on a faulty plane.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.