Weather delays this week
Feb 2, 2009, 12:51 am
#106
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy LT Plat, Hilton Gold, GHA Tit, BA Gold, Turkish Elite
Posts: 8,720
BBC News 24 reporting Stansted re-opened, but Luton closed (sounds definite).
Eurostar still not picking up phone... I have 24 hours to get off this island, armed with some data that doesn't yet exist...
Eurostar still not picking up phone... I have 24 hours to get off this island, armed with some data that doesn't yet exist...
Feb 2, 2009, 1:09 am
#108
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Marriott Plat, Hertz PC
Posts: 118
Feb 2, 2009, 1:21 am
#109
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,525
My friend who landed at 0650 (1hr30 ago) on the BA294 from Chicago is still stuck on the plane waiting for a stand! They have been told to turn off the engines now and sit and wait. The crew just brought tea and biscuits round and have put the IFE back on!
Feb 2, 2009, 1:31 am
#112
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Tokyo
Programs: BA Au; IHG Pl; Hyatt Au; IC RA; Marriott Pl
Posts: 817
I'm in the office in the West End, eerily quiet (1 vehicle on Oxford St every 2 minutes - mostly delivery vans). My usual coffee shop is not open (yet) and I have the office to myself.
Piccadilly line was working fine, if a little sluggish this morning.
Piccadilly line was working fine, if a little sluggish this morning.
Feb 2, 2009, 1:35 am
#114
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cham CH
Posts: 1,645
Trains from Peterborough to London are running OK. Tubes a waste of time trying. No buses. A few brave taxis out and about.
Have made it to Paddington (my office), now to try the Heathrow Connect since HEX has been hex'd.
Have made it to Paddington (my office), now to try the Heathrow Connect since HEX has been hex'd.
Feb 2, 2009, 1:50 am
#117
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2005
Location: TLV/LHR
Programs: BA GGL, IHG Diamond Elite Amb, HH Diamond, Avis PC, Hertz PC, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 12,948
Feb 2, 2009, 1:51 am
#118
Join Date: Jan 2006
Programs: Mucci, BA Gold, HHonours Diamond, BA AMEX PremPlus
Posts: 5,140
Had an e-mail from BA1A at 8am - he's stuck on BA138 at LHR - they got down before the closure, but as nothing is taking off, no stands available... Just enquiring as to whether they have the bubbly flowing.
Feb 2, 2009, 1:52 am
#119
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: UK
Programs: BA EC Gold
Posts: 9,236
Morning everyone!
Still snowing heavily here in SW4. My transportation method of choice, the seductively named La Ligne du Nord is one of only 3 London Underground lines that is not either "part suspended" or "suspended." I am admiring its fortitude for once.
Still snowing, and has been all night. I think today is going to be quite quiet in the office...
Still snowing heavily here in SW4. My transportation method of choice, the seductively named La Ligne du Nord is one of only 3 London Underground lines that is not either "part suspended" or "suspended." I am admiring its fortitude for once.
Still snowing, and has been all night. I think today is going to be quite quiet in the office...
Strange times indeed...