Airline passenger take mid-flight bets as Brisbane Airport delays become commonplace Stephen Morris is a regular flyer and says aircraft delays at Brisbane Airport are a great waste of resources. PIC: Steve Pohlner Source: The Courier-Mail IT'S the aerial waiting game that passengers are taking unofficial bets over. Businessman Stephen Morris, from Hendra, said most of his flights into Brisbane in recent months had been forced to circle the sky as they awaited a landing slot. "Usually it is around the Gold Coast when the pilot announces the plane is going into a holding pattern," he said. We (passengers) then start taking bets on how long it will be. Mr Morris warned that business travellers who returned from trips to Melbourne and Sydney "have no nice words to say about (landing in) Brisbane." In my experience, flights are always delayed up to 40 minutes to an hour returning to Brisbane, while a previous flight I was on was diverted to the Gold Coast to pick up fuel, which turned a trip from Sydney to Brisbane into a three-hour trip. Mr Morris, who regularly flies twice a week, said the problem had reached such a level that he wrote a letter to the CEO and managing director of the Brisbane Airport Corporation, Julieanne Alroe, to make her understand his frustration. "It is socially disruptive, a huge waste of resources, and has become a reputation issue for Brisbane," he said.