Weather disruption - LHR and perhaps elsewhere - 27 December 2017
Dec 27, 2017, 6:32 am
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Welcome to Flyertalk johncarter123, and a particular welcome from all of us here in the BA forum. It's good to get new people join us and I hope that you will continue to contribute here.
I've just checked and so far the pro-active cancellations mentioned in post 1 appears to be sticking, and I can't see any reactive cancellations beyond that. A few delays but nothing too bad. The longhaul fleet running pretty much to schedule. Never say never, but I don't see many more cancellations coming in today. Even the service to Rome, with bad weather at both ends, seems to be OK.
I've just checked and so far the pro-active cancellations mentioned in post 1 appears to be sticking, and I can't see any reactive cancellations beyond that. A few delays but nothing too bad. The longhaul fleet running pretty much to schedule. Never say never, but I don't see many more cancellations coming in today. Even the service to Rome, with bad weather at both ends, seems to be OK.
Dec 27, 2017, 7:15 am
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Dec 27, 2017, 1:28 pm
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I can see a forecast of freezing temperatures after 9 pm tomorrow. Could that impact my SCL flight?
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Dec 27, 2017, 1:36 pm
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I would say that is unlikely, through all of this winter so far the longhaul services have been kept pretty much to schedule. It may add perhaps a 20 minutes delay departing, but on such a long flight it may not be something that makes a lot of difference.
Dec 27, 2017, 3:22 pm
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Don’t think it is weather related but the BA2215from GLA is diverting to SEN. Decided to get rebooked onto the LGW flight tomorrow as I didn’t want to end up in Southend around midnight.
Dec 27, 2017, 4:16 pm
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I don't know whether this is relevant, but FLR has a particularly short single runway, 1750 metres, compared to Pisa next door with 2800 metres and 3000 metres. I know they have to sometimes either leave baggage behind and/or restrict passenger numbers to operate certain flights. Now I would have thought Embraers would be OK but there again they can't fill Embraers on the LCY-JSI service, and JSI is 1628 metres.
Dec 27, 2017, 4:35 pm
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Dec 27, 2017, 5:11 pm
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BA3279 LCY to FLR - wife currently at the gate being offered £220 to be taken to LGW and put on a later flight that lands this evening. Apparently they can't operate with a full aircraft because of winds in FLR. (Yesterday's flight was diverted to Elba which, being an island, is an interesting choice of airport to divert to...).
Dec 27, 2017, 6:56 pm
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Anyone know why BA99 was delayed 5.5 hours today? More issues with the 789? Should be a rude arrival for the passengers at 00:45 local time with the temperature at -22C here in Toronto.