Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

[TheLocalYokel]

Shanghai Airlines B737-700 on the Southside tonite !!!!

Arrived from SNN trying to goto Kemble as a diversion

Staying overnite folks

Thanks, conns. Don't get many of them.

 

[big g]

3 ILS was in operation and when I raised the point about easyJet and Ryanair in the past the consensus seemed to be that reason was the type of aircraft (B 738 v A 319/320). The EIR ATRs would not be CAT 3 compliant hence their diverting.

Thanks for the update.

Having a very boring day I was watching FR24 and noticed the Ryanair heading straight to BHX without even attempting BRS, even FR24 said BUD-BHX and it was on BHX arrivals. I thought it slightly odd as a couple of Easyjets managed to get in just before and just after but, as said, it must be related to type.

Both airlines have different minima's with EZY being lower than FR, also as said by TLY the Airbus is better performing in Lower Vis than the Boeing. Another factor could be the aircraft has temporally been down graded to CAT 2 or even CAT1 due to technical reasons.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Wednesday 26 November 2014

The morning Are Lingus Regional from/to Dublin and morning Blue Islands from/to Jersey both cancelled, presumably because of the fog this morning. Everything else seems to have landed.

 

[superking]

blue islands
the blue islands morning rotation diverted into cwl.
the return leg to jersey was a positioning flt.
i see on the brs flt boards that inbound diverted and the outbound cancelled

 

[TheLocalYokel]

At lunchtime it was showing the morning DUB and the morning JER both cancelled inbound and outbound. I note also that the lunchtime Aurigny from/to GCI is also shown as cancelled.

The tea time Blue Islands from JER made it as have the bmi regional E jets so far today. I was on the Bristol-Wells Road this afternoon and in places on Mendip visibility was down to 50 metres.

 

[superking]

thick fog causing problems in lots of places this morning.
nothing diverted away from brs yet. the stobart ei3280 held overhead fot nearly an hour,but managed to get in.
the blue islands from jersey is running about an hour delay,weather fog this end or jersey end is not known.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

thick fog causing problems in lots of places this morning.
nothing diverted away from brs yet. the stobart ei3280 held overhead fot nearly an hour,but managed to get in.
the blue islands from jersey is running about an hour delay,weather fog this end or jersey end is not known.

Looking at the BRS arrivals page a few minutes ago it seems that everything did get in today.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Saturday 29 November 2014

More fog this morning although it's clear and sunny now.

KL 1049 from AMS due 0945 diverted to CWL and the return KL 1050 is operating from there.

Everything else seems to have made it, including non Cat 3 equipped aircraft before and after the KLM diversion.

Blue Islands from JER is showing a delay of several hours though.

 

[conns757]

Another Kemble diversion.........

This time China Eastern A319 diverting in from Shannon.

Staying overnite on the Southside - amazing after the Shangahi Airlines visit

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Many thanks conns. I saw the Shanghai Airlines parked on the southern apron when I flew out on the morning of Tuesday 18 November.

 

[superking]

computer problems at shanwick this afternoon.
lots of departure and arrivals running late due to this problem. i cant see any been cancelled as yet.
did we get any diversions due to this problem.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

computer problems at shanwick this afternoon.
lots of departure and arrivals running late due to this problem. i cant see any been cancelled as yet.
did we get any diversions due to this problem.

I'm not sure that would have been viable given the nature of the ATC disruption. The national tv news spoke of easyJet flights for London airports diverting to several airports on the continent. Had it been possible one might think that some would have gone into BRS but apparently did not.

The local BBC news at tea time spoke of a Scottish basketball team en route to play a game in Bristol this evening finding their aircraft from Glasgow to Bristol diverted into Liverpool. I assume it was an easyJet flight although of course it might have been a private charter.

 

[big g]

Firstly it was Swanwick control that had the failure, Shanwick is the control for the East Atlantic.

The EZY GLA diverted in to LPA and tanother EZY diverted in to CDG, I think it was one of the GVA flights.

The FR 506 was cancelled due to a tech problem just before the ATC shutdown.

 

[superking]

computer problems at shanwick this afternoon.
lots of departure and arrivals running late due to this problem. i cant see any been cancelled as yet.
did we get any diversions due to this problem.

getting lots of things wrong lately. im putting it down to old age lol.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

getting lots of things wrong lately. im putting it down to old age lol.

I'll join the club because I hadn't registered your Shanwick reference until big g pointed it out. :coco:

 

[Ray Finkle]

Bristol is starting to see some Gatwick diverts, one Easyjet has recently landed with another looking like it's on approach. A Monarch A321 has also gone to CWL.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol is starting to see some Gatwick diverts, one Easyjet has recently landed with another looking like it's on approach. A Monarch A321 has also gone to CWL.

Only the one LGW diversion shown on FR24 - easyJet A 319 G-EZAK from Madrid. Most of the LGW diversions seem to have gone to STN, LTN and BOH, with BHX, SEN, BRS, SOU and CWL also being used.

Addendum

LGW runway now seems to have re-opened around 1915 hours.

 

[Ray Finkle]

The first Easyjet diversion was A319 G-EZIS which was operating U28628 PMI-LGW. It arrived at BRS around 17:40ish, around 10 mins or so before G-EZAK from MAD.

 

[alphagolf]

The first Easyjet diversion was A319 G-EZIS which was operating U28628 PMI-LGW. It arrived at BRS around 17:40ish, around 10 mins or so before G-EZAK from MAD.

Was watching Flightradar24 and the first diversion that I saw go into BRS was an A320 EZY8704 TFS to LGW G-EZWP even though it was showing as Cancelled on Flightradar, easyJet's flight tracker confirms divert into BRS and landing at 1723.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thanks to Ray and alphagolf for the last two posts. I checked with FR24's LGW arrival's page and found only the MAD showing a diversion to BRS. However, there were a number of flights showing cancelled which it seems weren't cancelled at all but diverted to other airports; or at least some of them did.