{"id":498256,"date":"2026-06-27T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:28:09","slug":"auckland-diversion-leaves-qantas-passengers-stuck-on-plane-for-over-8-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498256\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland diversion leaves Qantas passengers stuck on plane for over 8 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas has apologised to passengers on a flight from Brisbane to Wellington after they were stuck on the plane for more than eight hours because of a diversion to Auckland<\/p>\n<p>The flight QF 281 left Brisbane just before 11:30am this morning (local time) bound for Wellington but was diverted to Auckland because of poor weather in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas confirmed the plane landed in Auckland at 4.15pm, but passengers were unable to disembark until about 8.30pm due to &#8220;some operational and administrative complexities whilst in Auckland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas said customers would be reaccommodated on the next available services to Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely apologise to customers for the experience, and our teams are working hard to get them on their way as soon as possible,&#8221; a Qantas spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Airport has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas has apologised to passengers on a flight from Brisbane to Wellington after they were stuck on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-498256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498256","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=498256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}