Originally Posted by
mduell
The problem is when they go mx, they'd really rather be at a large airport with a partner than small island in the Atlantic. Some of the flights could push to Canada, but they don't want to mx there either.
That's for sure. When my BA flight LHR-ORD on a 747 realized that they had a problem with the landing gear we were close to KEF. The plane did a U-turn and returned to LHR where the good news is that there was no wind and we landed safely without the operating landing gear under the wings.