Not all of us have suffered from the current flight diversions to Hawaii for a myriad of causes. That additionally simply occurred to ABC’s Robin Roberts. A number of hours in the past, he posted on his Instagram account: “The journey continues…after a 24 hour detour, he arrives in New Zealand. Large gratitude to the @airnz employees for the way they dealt with a difficult scenario and to the individuals of Honolulu for being so type. Mahalo💛 #SaturdaySerenity🙏🏾
Robin, 62, began the journey yesterday with a submit saying: “Attempting to benefit from the flight diversion to Honolulu till the flooding subsides in Auckland. I hope everyone is ok.” Unrelated to our story, the GMA star stated he is taking a break from Thursday’s morning present.
“After a number of months of planning, Glam Fam and I are off to New Zealand! she stated. “In fact, a detour to Hawaii and a day on the Waikiki seaside is nearly by no means a foul factor, and it appears that evidently the whole lot labored out for the most effective. See extra particulars under.
Honolulu as an airline diversion cease.
On Thursday, Roberts’ flight, Air New Zealand Flight 1, left New York’s JFK at 9:06 p.m. and was en path to Auckland. What occurred then is that the tragic floods in New Zealand created a scenario the place the airport was compelled to shut. That prompted the flight to go off track, and as you’ll be able to see on the FlightAware map above, Honolulu was a logical place. The flight then headed about 1,500 miles northwest of its present place. Whereas there have been different diversion factors past Hawaii, Honolulu is clearly effectively outfitted to deal with most of these occasions and can be a daily gateway metropolis for Air New Zealand worldwide flights. The Boeing 789 Dreamliner arrived in Honolulu at four:53 a.m. Friday.
Roberts was capable of take pleasure in an exquisite day on the seaside in Honolulu. This morning, Saturday, the flight resumed from Honolulu at 7:27 am and is scheduled to reach in Auckland on Sunday at four:24 pm.
Different flights to Auckland have been canceled attributable to flooding, together with at the moment’s Hawaiian Airways flight and one other Air New Zealand flight from New York.
Epic floods in New Zealand prompted the diversion.
Auckland is reported to have acquired “75% of its normal summer time rainfall in simply 15 hours”. A state of emergency was declared to assist handle flooding and widespread evacuations.
Auckland Airport was additionally flooded. Departures from Auckland have been suspended till 5:00am native time on Sunday or later, with no worldwide arrivals allowed earlier than 7:00am on Sunday.
Our ideas go at first to the individuals of New Zealand throughout this tragic climate occasion through which a minimum of three individuals have already died.
Flight diversions of every kind proceed in Hawaii.
That is definitely a unique sort of diversion than the plethora of disruptive passenger flight diversions which have occurred lately. It additionally reminds us that Hawaii is in the course of a really lengthy stretch of the jap Pacific Ocean with few diversion factors. The newest (albeit fully totally different) weather-related in-flight occasion in Hawaii occurred on December 18, when extreme climate en route prompted huge accidents aboard Hawaiian Airways Flight 35.
Featured picture: Robin Roberts’ Instagram
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