I and some colleagues were stuck on a plane on the tarmac at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne last night for more than two hours. Our flight from the Gold Coast landed just about on time at 8:15pm. It was 10:30pm when we deplaned.
I checked in with the websites for the Herald Sun and The Age but could not get much information. Twitter was more helpful.
On the way home in the car I expected to head details of the story on the radio – next to nothing was reported. Again, Twitter had more accurate information. I knew this would be the case because of the number of people in the two thousand or so in the terminal waiting for flights who were active on their phones.
This is the era in which we live. Sometimes, old model news services take too long to get an immediate story out.
Our plane was one of twenty or so which had landed and which were stuck on the tarmac. Inside the terminal there were thousands affected by Melbourne’s wild weather. Twitter connected us through this shared experience in a way which old media could not.
It was interesting experiencing this first hand.
Are you surprised???? When we don’t get papers until after delivery time, nobody knows lets us know about that, either.
If they’re that slack on an operational level, it only follows that it would on a product level as well…