Air operators have been notified to reschedule arrival of their flights around the closure timings. The affected flights may have been subject to prior delay which extended their arrival time to coincide with the closure.
It seems the dispatchers did not take this into account and uplifted more holding fuel for affected flights.
airlines should be notified of National Day rehearsals way before that and to allow them to adjust for the airspace closure - similiar to that when the Singapore Airshow had flying demonstrations. Otherwise such diversions will costs alot of money to the airlines in terms of fuel, time and delays. Wonder why there were still a number of such diversions.
Wow, didn't think of that. Yes definitely need to remember to avoid that time slot on Saturday's. This would tick me off royally as a passenger though, but okay.
On the other hand, I was walking along Orchard on Sat evening around that time and the fighter jets were flying past overhead in the '50' formation. The '0' looked good and the '5' still needed some adjustments, but it did look quite cool
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