Originally Posted by
omaralt
seriously. something is really fish here. something really doesn't make sense. i know others have slandered and assaulted (
) other users for saying this reeks of some type of employee strike, but really what other possible explanation can there be? i mean if it was truly an emergency they would have landed in calgary..
But that is just it, it was not an emergency. You have answered your own question.
The flight crew and operations decided to take the aircraft to a station where they are familiar in dealing with an A380, they have the capabilities to deal with it, more staff, more hotel options, more ability to have someone look at the aircraft if there was a technical fault as YYC is a Boeing station which probably would not have had appropriate engineering support.
Comments like this, and others just go to show how little understanding people have about aviation, airlines and the world in which they operate, the aircraft in which they are flying and the operation of it. Bar the seat they are sitting in and the drink they are drinking and food they are eating, leave the rest to the people who have trained for years to do the rest.