Poor David

This morning we set off at 5AM to pick up our mate David from Perth Airport. Of course we checked out the website first to make sure of the arrival time etc. All good so far...
We got to the airport and there was no info for his flight on the board and no voice-overs on the PA to say what had happened to it. I went outside to where Clive was waiting in the car and just happened to overhear one of the traffic inspectors telling someone that the flight had been tranferred to Melbourne and wasn't arriving until 2PM.

What a professional organisation Perth airport is! There were at least ten cars that pulled up while we were there to pick up people from that flight. As the flight was diverted to Melbourne they would have known this hours in advenced of the sceduled landing in Perth. The website had been updated when we checked in the morning to say there was a 20 minute delay, so obviously there was nothing wrong with the site, they just didn't bother putting in the right info!

More importantly, David (who we will be staying with in China) has a really painful leg injury that he is supposed to be getting looked at by a specialist while in Perth. If he misses the appointment it will be another 3 months until he can come back to Oz. Added to that is the fact that it is bad for his injury to be sitting for long priods, so any kind of flying is not good but a flight arriving hours late is going to be excruciating.
We haven't actually heard from him yet so we are a bit worried, hopefully he is fine and is just relying on us checking the internet for flight details...