Qantas has been forced to delay several flights between South Africa and Australia - some up to six hours - as debris from SpaceX rockets falls back to Earth over the southern Indian Ocean.

Australia’s largest airline by fleet size Qantas (QABSY), needed to reschedule flights on the Sydney-Johannesburg route recently amid he U.S.

Some flights are abruptly delayed due to falling debris from Elon Musk’s Space X rockets that are re-entering the earth, Qantas said. For weeks, the airline has been forced to postpone flights — for up to six hours — on the Sydney-Johannesburg route due to last-minute changes in both the timing and location of the re-entry of Space X rockets,