Weather, mechanical issues, medical emergencies, or crew problems are common justifications from airlines to explain flight delays. Falling space junk, however, isn’t an excuse you hear very often, but it’s one that travelers flying with Qantas have heard several times recently.
Over the past few weeks, Australian flag carrier Qantas has had to delay several flights on the route between Sydney, Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa, because of potential SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth over a a large portion of the southern Indian Ocean, an area covered by the flights’ path.
