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High speed fog!!! Who'd have thought it! We got down to 200ft minimums and saw absolutely nothing. Tower reported he could see Cookridge tower which was just bizarre! A Cat3 approach was right on the wind limits. Getting blown around in turbulent air to break fog at 50ft just wasn't safe.

FL has gone on C check!

She didn’t ’break down’ as such in CDG, so not a reliability issue. She had a coming together with some steps!

It had a flap over speed due the wind shear which meant it required a fairly in depth maintenance inspection before flying again!

Nothing on the grapevine my end about 321s at Leeds! Latest is 733s until 2029! I cant see a need for capacity increase at present. Loads aren’t high enough! I personally have seen a full aircraft about 4x this summer. Rest of the time it’s about 75%.

It was a precautionary engine shut down after an indication fault in the oil pressure of the engine!

All the inbound passengers were re-accommodated on other Jet2 flights back to the UK! Helps that the aircraft aren't too full at present so they have enough spare seats! On windy days you'll get a smoother landing! Always the case as you 'fight' the aircraft in, it ends up being a lovely...

Yes, but age isn’t the reason behind the current tech issues! Believe me, it’s everywhere! Not sure what’s going on but everything keeps falling over at the moment! There’s a lack of spare aircraft at present due C checks over running and the delay in the 321 arrivals. At planning stage when...

It’s because none of the 321s will need the heavy maintenance until 3 years after entry into service, which would be 2026. I believe the whole thing will be ripped out and refit inside.

Forgive me if its already been mentioned (I did do a search). The ex Air Livery hanger will become a new Jet2 hanger come 2026. For Airbus heavy maintenance.

Different airlines have different limits. For example, Jet2 don't take the gust factor into account at all whereas I believe Ryanair do. A 737-800 has a landing limit of 33 knots in the dry and wet, but reduces with Runway condition codes of 3 or less (snowy conditions). For takeoff the limit...

There's been so much speculation on Facebook from the arm chair pilots about shutting down an engine and why you'd do it and the implications, reasoning as to why you'd head to Manchester etc etc. I even saw a post that 'it didn't land at LBA as there's no engineers there' :ROFLMAO: They never...

The Naples flight was all set to go on JZHN, but unfortunately failed a test flight. The 757 they allocated the flight to was still inside the MAN hanger on a routine check which was delayed so it never materialised!

Usually it’s down to the winds aloft. Any slight wind pushing you off course slightly, then you need to fly right to get back on track. Having just played it back on FR24 it was nothing significant.

Just as a side note to the Spurs team flying in. I saw there branded coach parked up waiting for them. Environmentalists would have a field day. Sending an empty coach up the M1 to meet the team that are too precious for a 4 hour bus ride, so got a 737 instead!! It does seem a bit daft to be...

Just to add to this, As you say it is down to a variety of factors. If it’s wet we’re probably rolling to the end, if we get a bit of floating action we’ll roll to the end! If it’s Ryanair they’ll slam on (maybe even make November 🤪)… etc! If it’s late at night and everyone just wants to get...

G-HLYF - A321 due in today It’s first flight under Jet2’s AOC today MAN-BHX 1300-1535 BHX-LBA 1635-1715 LBA-MAN 1815-1855

You shouldn’t be affected flying East. Your routing shouldn’t take you anywhere near the airspace in question, which is the Marseille area control.

I believe the Arsenal team never made the flight back down. As the mighty Bantams took them to extra time and penalties I was told Luton denied them a later slot (possible due weather), so the team bussed it back down!