Qantas confirmed flights on its Sydney-Johannesburg had been delayed due to debris falling over the Indian Ocean, the location chosen by SpaceX for re-entry owing to its remoteness.
Ben Holland, Qantas’s head of operations, confirmed that while carriers work with SpaceX to avoid disruption, debris warnings frequently came at short notice.
“Over the past few weeks, we’ve had to delay several flights between Johannesburg and Sydney due to advice received from the US government regarding the re-entry of SpaceX rockets over an extensive area of the southern Indian Ocean," The Guardian cites Holland as saying.
