How windy is “windy” on Sunday at Heathrow? [Storm Isha]
Jan 21, 2024, 1:41 pm
#122
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I'm booked into the Crowne Plaza there for the night before 9am flight to US tomorrow.
Jan 21, 2024, 2:02 pm
#123
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You should be able to get a taxi from BFS to Dublin. If you can’t, get a taxi or bus into Belfast City Centre. From there you will be able to get a bus with either Translink or Aircoach to Dublin Airport. It used to be hourly but might be 2-hourly now. For the bus expect to pay under £20 single. I’m not sure about the taxi fare, would be subject to negotiation I would expect.
Jan 21, 2024, 2:03 pm
#124
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You should be able to get a taxi from BFS to Dublin. If you can’t, get a taxi or bus into Belfast City Centre. From there you will be able to get a bus with either Translink or Aircoach to Dublin Airport. It used to be hourly but might be 2-hourly now. For the bus expect to pay under £20 single. I’m not sure about the taxi fare, would be subject to negotiation I would expect.
Jan 21, 2024, 2:19 pm
#126
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You'll likely find someone to drive you .. at a price and you'd need to haggle given the weather perhaps .. lots of trees down etc, but I'm sure the main Dublin-Belfast road is okay and you'd be on that for most of the way .. little under 2hrs drive /100 miles normally , perhaps a bit more tonight
Edited to add - https://belfastairporttaxis.com/ suggests a little less than £200 if arranged in advance ... I guess you'd be looking at a bit more than that turning up at the rank and trying to convince someone to drive you to Dublin on a night like tonight !
Edited to add - https://belfastairporttaxis.com/ suggests a little less than £200 if arranged in advance ... I guess you'd be looking at a bit more than that turning up at the rank and trying to convince someone to drive you to Dublin on a night like tonight !
Last edited by EvilDoctorK; Jan 21, 2024 at 2:26 pm
Jan 21, 2024, 2:35 pm
#127
Join Date: Nov 2012
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You'll likely find someone to drive you .. at a price and you'd need to haggle given the weather perhaps .. lots of trees down etc, but I'm sure the main Dublin-Belfast road is okay and you'd be on that for most of the way .. little under 2hrs drive /100 miles normally , perhaps a bit more tonight
Edited to add - https://belfastairporttaxis.com/ suggests a little less than £200 if arranged in advance ... I guess you'd be looking at a bit more than that turning up at the rank and trying to convince someone to drive you to Dublin on a night like tonight !
Edited to add - https://belfastairporttaxis.com/ suggests a little less than £200 if arranged in advance ... I guess you'd be looking at a bit more than that turning up at the rank and trying to convince someone to drive you to Dublin on a night like tonight !
Jan 21, 2024, 3:05 pm
#129
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Jan 21, 2024, 3:05 pm
#130
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It's pretty gusty out there across the UK and wider. With such gusty conditions so much comes down to the final 30 sec of approach but kudos goes out to ATC who are having to dynamically re-plan many flights based on multiple variables today. Not Speedbird but below is just one example
The UK is a complex ATC map when predictable, let alone today!
The UK is a complex ATC map when predictable, let alone today!
Jan 21, 2024, 3:11 pm
#131
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All LCY flights cancelled,
Orginally booked on LCY - RTM BA4457
Rebooked by checkin counter to LCY - AMS BA8457
After watching the delays slide ....
Approached LCY reservations, no we wont rebook you, all flight are operating,
Showing the LCY cancelled flights board,
We need to verify with management,
Quote not mine" THEY said LCY board updated officially before BA's public statement"
Yes we can rebook you again:
Trying again same flight, same tine BA4457 LCY - RTM for tomorrow 22 JAN.
Italian guy to Milano next to me:
"can i share a room with you, we can split the cost?"
Two girlsfriends (cat)fighting,
"no i need to be home tomorrow so i have right to grab that last seat on the first flight to Munich"
Dutch tart next to me,
"i've been through LCY security 3 times in and out to get new rebookings / boarding pass as my flights all were cancelled
i demand you book me the Mandarin Oriental because i need to have 2 days of shopping at Knightsbridge to recover my nerves"!
Her goriilla husband: " yes dear, what ever you say dear, you have suffered dear,...."
Me?
Mother says we should actually stay couple days extra ....
Yet we do have travel partners who are more nervous and on a thight schedule and want to return home ....l
Anyway lots of strength everyone ....l
Had a quick nosh at Hardrock café Mayfair,
it's shop it's flagpole snapped and broke,
and fire brigade had to secure the premises and aid the wounded.......
Spoiler: despair, agony, torment at its zenith
And almost if BA is saying its a cruel irony ....
Yay, BA is aiding us in our peril !
Let's do it online .....
Well that was a wash out , sheer disappointment ......
Orginally booked on LCY - RTM BA4457
Rebooked by checkin counter to LCY - AMS BA8457
After watching the delays slide ....
Approached LCY reservations, no we wont rebook you, all flight are operating,
Showing the LCY cancelled flights board,
We need to verify with management,
Quote not mine" THEY said LCY board updated officially before BA's public statement"
Yes we can rebook you again:
Trying again same flight, same tine BA4457 LCY - RTM for tomorrow 22 JAN.
Italian guy to Milano next to me:
"can i share a room with you, we can split the cost?"
Two girlsfriends (cat)fighting,
"no i need to be home tomorrow so i have right to grab that last seat on the first flight to Munich"
Dutch tart next to me,
"i've been through LCY security 3 times in and out to get new rebookings / boarding pass as my flights all were cancelled
i demand you book me the Mandarin Oriental because i need to have 2 days of shopping at Knightsbridge to recover my nerves"!
Her goriilla husband: " yes dear, what ever you say dear, you have suffered dear,...."
Me?
Mother says we should actually stay couple days extra ....
Yet we do have travel partners who are more nervous and on a thight schedule and want to return home ....l
Anyway lots of strength everyone ....l
Had a quick nosh at Hardrock café Mayfair,
it's shop it's flagpole snapped and broke,
and fire brigade had to secure the premises and aid the wounded.......
Spoiler: despair, agony, torment at its zenith
Spoiler
And almost if BA is saying its a cruel irony ....
Yay, BA is aiding us in our peril !
Let's do it online .....
Well that was a wash out , sheer disappointment ......
Jan 21, 2024, 3:12 pm
#132
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Jan 21, 2024, 3:15 pm
#133
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London. Or a plane.
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Very bumpy landing into LHR at 9.20pm. The trains to and from Heathrow are experiencing issues caused by overhead wires near Heathrow Junction being affected by the weather.
Also had a quite extraordinary experience at GVA where the BA check-in staff had a go at me for the temerity of having called the GGL line to rebook my cancelled flight on the journey to the airport, instead of just turning up and accepting whatever I was offered by the check-in staff (the people checking in next to me were offered a flight 21:00 tomorrow)
Also had a quite extraordinary experience at GVA where the BA check-in staff had a go at me for the temerity of having called the GGL line to rebook my cancelled flight on the journey to the airport, instead of just turning up and accepting whatever I was offered by the check-in staff (the people checking in next to me were offered a flight 21:00 tomorrow)
Last edited by alexwuk; Jan 21, 2024 at 3:25 pm
Jan 21, 2024, 4:13 pm
#135
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Alas my BFS plan went awry with a cancellation there too. UA to rebook from EDI was going to be an extra £13k 
Switched to Tuesday ex Dub on that ticket and we'll go again tomorrow to try to get to the Emerald Isle.
Switched to Tuesday ex Dub on that ticket and we'll go again tomorrow to try to get to the Emerald Isle.