Delays due to restricted airspace
Nov 30, 2019, 3:00 am
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Delays due to restricted airspace
Just boarded 417 in Lux. Showing on time but they've said we won't get to take off for an hour due to airspace restrictions. Anyone know what's going on today?
Nov 30, 2019, 3:07 am
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From Eurocontrol Tactical update:
Aerodromes
EGLL (Heathrow)
Arrivals regulated due to forecast Low Visibility.
Moderate to high delays.
EGLC (London City)
Arrivals regulated due to Low Visibility.
High delays.
https://www.public.nm.eurocontrol.in...pec/index.html
Aerodromes
EGLL (Heathrow)
Arrivals regulated due to forecast Low Visibility.
Moderate to high delays.
EGLC (London City)
Arrivals regulated due to Low Visibility.
High delays.
https://www.public.nm.eurocontrol.in...pec/index.html
Nov 30, 2019, 3:14 am
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An unwelcome reminder for me of the unpredictability of LCY in winter. Flying to MUC ans GVA from there in coming weeks.
Nov 30, 2019, 8:36 am
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Nov 30, 2019, 8:45 am
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LCY is a great little airport when it works, but it tends to go from great to disastrous in an instant. No intermediate steps of not-so-greatness in between.
Nov 30, 2019, 9:40 am
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Don’t BA CF have a framework agreement in place with a local to SEN luxury coach operator for getting passengers from SEN to LCY in these diversion circumstances, or are such reasonable measures unthinkable?
Nov 30, 2019, 10:27 am
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Missed opportunity I would say. Broadly a coach hire is £100 an hour, perhaps a bit more late at night, so let's say £200 for the 75 minute trip, but BA is OK to pay £50 for taxi fees - and sometimes more - for those sent to SEN or STN needing to get to London. So really it would save BA money to have such a coach on standby. However, there will be people like me who won't want to wait until the last person with a non European passport has negotiated entry into the UK from the friendly officers of the Border Force, collected vast amounts of checked luggage, had a smoke, gone to the WC (etc) who would therefore wreck the economics.
Nov 30, 2019, 10:44 am
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Missed opportunity I would say. Broadly a coach hire is £100 an hour, perhaps a bit more late at night, so let's say £200 for the 75 minute trip, but BA is OK to pay £50 for taxi fees - and sometimes more - for those sent to SEN or STN needing to get to London. So really it would save BA money to have such a coach on standby. However, there will be people like me who won't want to wait until the last person with a non European passport has negotiated entry into the UK from the friendly officers of the Border Force, collected vast amounts of checked luggage, had a smoke, gone to the WC (etc) who would therefore wreck the economics.
What happens at AGP when a BA GIB flight is diverted because of high winds, are coaches provided?