{"id":500878,"date":"2026-02-24T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:34:22","slug":"nrl-news-2026-andrew-abdo-peter-vlandys-flight-delayed-to-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500878\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Andrew Abdo, Peter V’landys flight delayed to Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trip to Las Vegas for NRL CEO Andrew Abdo<\/a> and ARLC chairman Peter V’landys<\/a> has been delayed after their flight was turned back due to air conditioning issues.<\/p>\n

Nine’s Danny Weidler broke the news on X, revealing Knights<\/a> CEO Peter Parr and Newcastle fans were also on the flight.<\/p>\n

The flight was in the air for more than an hour before it was diverted back to Sydney. <\/p>\n

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The Las Vegas plane’s flightpath. \u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Former Knights player Mark Hughes along with Newcastle fans were also on the flight. <\/p>\n

The Las Vegas fixtures don’t start until March 1 when Hull KR and Leeds kick off at 11am (AEDT).<\/p>\n

North Queensland and Newcastle will be the first NRL match, followed by the Bulldogs and Dragons.<\/p>\n

All four sides have already arrived in Sin City with the Bulldogs training at the Las Vegas Raiders’ high performance centre.<\/p>\n

Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould said there had been a lot of planning towards the club’s Vegas venture.<\/p>\n

“Our staff have done a great job, meticulously doing that (planning),” he told 9news Sydney.<\/p>\n

“The corporate team have done a great job. The club itself, we brought every staff member across, something like 80-odd staff members across here to be part of this, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them and experience for our fans.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, NRL league tag clinics and games along with NFL flag football games will take place at Clark County School District.<\/p>\n

That will be followed by the opening of a fan hub and media launch at Resorts World.<\/p>\n

The NRL Vegas Nines starts on Thursday with the fan fest taking place Fremont St that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trip to Las Vegas for NRL CEO Andrew Abdo and ARLC chairman Peter V’landys has been delayed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-500878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}