{"id":497975,"date":"2026-06-27T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497975\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:07:08","slug":"passengers-who-spent-more-than-8hrs-on-qantas-plane-now-stuck-on-auckland-tarmac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497975\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers who spent more than 8hrs on Qantas plane now stuck on Auckland tarmac"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Herald her friend is a passenger on the plane, who said she has been told it will eventually divert either back to Wellington, or Brisbane.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just crazy they\u2019ve spent the whole day in the plane, flown around New Zealand airspace and now might have to come back [to Australia].<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no proper explanation from Qantas on why passengers weren\u2019t allowed to disembark [in Auckland].<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said kids were crying and the staff have restocked catering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman said her friend was \u201cgutted\u201d as she was on her way to visit family and friends in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe and her partner have been sitting in the plane on the tarmac at Auckland for hours now\u201d she told the Herald. <\/p>\n

The Qantas flight map currently shows the flight was meant to have been diverted back to arrive in Wellington at 7pm, but it has not left Auckland. <\/p>\n

Auckland Airport has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Herald her friend is a passenger on the plane,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[248970,51,9689,138,118446,73,70,71,62035,130,111,139,425,69,90,29459,15026,4372,13120,12633,29460,64867,131,8229,1865,24927,52,3608,540,1299],"class_list":["post-497975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-8hrs","tag-auckland","tag-brisbane","tag-business","tag-disembark","tag-diverted","tag-flight","tag-from","tag-grounded","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-passengers","tag-plane","tag-qantas","tag-remain","tag-spent","tag-stuck","tag-tarmac","tag-than","tag-they","tag-today","tag-unable","tag-wellington","tag-were","tag-where","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}