Kevin Farnell
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Watching FR24, I noticed a few go-arounds this evening. One of which was EK37 and now appears to be diverting, heading towards STN!
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Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations
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Kevin Farnell
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FR24 is now saying that EK38 will depart BHX at 23:50, which implies that the aircraft will position back (usual EK policy). I really hope that the EK37 pax have remained on board. It will be a far more pleasant experience to sit on the aircraft for a couple of hours and then fly back to BHX, than a 3 hour road journey on the M11, the dreadful A14 and then the M6 and M42.
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Matt995
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Landed back at BHX 22:51, I presume passengers were still aboard.
JENNYJET
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Glad to see safety taken seriously, passengers will have been taken care of.
Matt995
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TUI not having a very good Saturday!
G-TUIN The new B789 appears to have gone tech and the Bridgetown flight has been delayed 22 hours until Sunday morning
G-TAWD operating the Chambery diverted to Lyon due weather, hence the Chambery was delayed over 6 hours and the Las Palmas flight just over 4 hours late.
AlbaStar B738 EC-NGC has also postioned in, to operate for TUI on sunday.
and this is low season winter, imagine the problems they will have next summer with a mass shortage of aircraft, due to the Max issues?
G-TUIN The new B789 appears to have gone tech and the Bridgetown flight has been delayed 22 hours until Sunday morning
G-TAWD operating the Chambery diverted to Lyon due weather, hence the Chambery was delayed over 6 hours and the Las Palmas flight just over 4 hours late.
AlbaStar B738 EC-NGC has also postioned in, to operate for TUI on sunday.
and this is low season winter, imagine the problems they will have next summer with a mass shortage of aircraft, due to the Max issues?
Matt995
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TUI B789 G-TUIN was apparently delayed, due a a member of the cabin crew opening a door and releasing the emergency exit slide! oh dear, costly mistake!
Glenn Eldridge
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Hearing we may get an extra A380 this evening with EK3 and EK31 both due into LHR after midnight and BHX may take one of the 2
IanFarquharson
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A6-EDR due into BHX at 00.15 on EK31
Brum X
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The world is going crazy 
RichL
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Don't think the world is going crazy necessarily, it DOES rain in Dubai, just not very often so they can't cope. You could look how the UK fails to cope when we have a centimetre of snow for instance because we cannot cope and chaos that often ensues at busy airports such as Heathrow...The world is going crazy
IanFarquharson
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Cheers, shame it went to LGW but good to know BHX was in the mix and plans were in place to handle two 388's at the same time
They planned 2 but handling 2 at once would have been a different matter, it would have sat on 85C untouched (except maybe some steps to ML2) until the late EK37/38 departed then you would have had reduced staff due to the time as lots of staff stayed over for the 37 and would have gone home leaving the nightshift staff. I am told that after 2am they could not do a pushback anyway on either 380.
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EI-RJU diverted in earlier from LCY.
G-EZPD is diverting in from LGW and G-LCYZ from LCY.
G-EZPD is diverting in from LGW and G-LCYZ from LCY.
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Norwegian 738 (EI-FHN) and Wizz A321 (HA-LXB) also diverting in from LGW along with another BACF (G-LCAB) from LCY.
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Another easyjet (G-EZBH) also coming from LGW.
DarloPlaneBoy
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Intrestingly according to FR24 LGW seems to be operating flights when I tracked an Easyjet from Luxembourg was landing LCY excepted it's last flight from Milan so why have a bunch been diverted
Matt995
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strong crosswinds at LGW, gusting across the runways, seams to have calmed down, and most landing at LGW now
Coathanger16
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Aircraft only carry so much fuel. Those that have diverted made at least 1 approach into Gatwick. To give Gatwick a second go would likely have left them with not enough fuel to divert elsewhere so the question becomes "how sure are we that we can land off this next approach?". If there's enough doubt they'll divert.