hch

So hour plane arrived and *drumroll* the crew left the plane. It's not officially cancelled yet while the TXL flight is. Let's see how long it takes them to cancel the FRA flight too. I guess once they're done accommodating the TXL pax

Rambuster

My ZRH-NUE flight had to take an odd routing due to heavy thunder storms between STR and ZRH. We went all the way east and then over MUC to NUE.

supermasterphil

No thunderstorms in HAM today. Just lovely plain blue sky

hch

Apparently PAX of some arriving flights are trapped in their planes and not let out due to the weather. To be continued..

szg

Meantime you can hide some internet access codes for the Easter Egg Thread

szg

It doesn´t look good for you STR-FRA flight.

MET-INFORMATION 02.06.2008 18:52:56 UTC
STUTTGART_ECHTERDINGEN STR EDDS - FRANKFURT_MAIN FRA EDDF
-----WARNINGS:-----
NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR UAOS31
NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR WSEDFF
NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR WAEDFF
NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR WSEDMM
NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR WAEDMM
WSDL31 EDZF 021625
EDGG SIGMET 2 VALID 021630/021900 EDZF-
EDGG LANGEN FIR FRQ TSGR OBS LINE EDDL-EDFH-EDDS-EDMK TOP FL400 MOV
NW NC
=

WSDL32 EDZF 021628
EDUU SIGMET 2 VALID 021630/021900 EDZF-
EDUU RHEIN UIR FRQ TSGR OBS LINE EDDL-EDFH-EDDS-EDMK TOP FL400 MOV
NW NC
=

NO ACTUAL WARNINGS FOR WAED*
------

*** FRANKFURT_MAIN FRA/EDDF
SAEDDF 021820Z 33007KT 9999 FEW035 FEW050CB BKN300 24/16 Q1008
NOSIG=
SA EDDF MESSAGE TOO OLD
FCEDDF 021800Z 021904 21006KT 9999 SCT050 PROB40 TEMPO 1901
18015G35KT 4000 TSRAGR BKN020CB PROB40 TEMPO 0104 3000 BR
BKN008=
FTEDDF 021600Z 030024 25007KT 9999 SCT045 PROB30
TEMPO 0003 18015G25KT 4000 TSRA BKN030CB PROB30
TEMPO 0307 3000 BR BKN008=

*** STUTTGART_ECHTERDINGEN STR/EDDS
SAEDDS 021820Z 18007KT 9999 TSRA FEW006 FEW035CB BKN070 17/15
Q1012 NOSIG=
SAEDDS 021750Z 18012KT 9999 -SHRA VCTS FEW006 FEW035CB SCT100
BKN300 18/15 Q1011 RERA TEMPO SHRA=
FCEDDS 021900Z 021904 23007KT 9999 SCT035 TEMPO 1922 23015G30KT 2500
TSRA BKN014CB TEMPO 2204 2000 SHRA BKN009=
FTEDDS 021600Z 030024 28006KT 9999 BKN035 PROB30 TEMPO 0207 2000 BR
TEMPO 0724 4000 SHRA BKN014=

+++++ END +++++

hch

Care to explain what the gibberish means?

And yeah, at this point I'd be much happier if they'd just put me in a hotel here in Stuttgart.

In the meantime they announced cancellations for about half a dozen flights, it seems just like the other TXL flight and FRA are still pending. I hope this doesn't end like my last evening flight cancellation out of STR were all hotels anywhere near the airport were fully booked and they had to put my into a place about half an hour away. (Which incidentally was the Condor crew hotel)

szg

It doesn´t look good for your flight !!

hch

The lounge warden just told a pax that LH doesn't provide hotels at all in case of weather. That's not what I've seen in the past. Time to look at the EU regs..

szg

It looks like, you have fun at the lounge. Shouldn´t be the lounge closed now ?

hch

Still rather crowded. But this isn't UA, so they stay open until the last flight is cancelled.

SmilingBoy

LH is required to give care (i.e. food+hotel) whatever the reason for the delay/cancellation. No cash compensation is due though.

Rambuster

Ground crew (baggage handlers, refuelling, etc) are not allowed to be outside during a thunder storm for safety reasons. Kind of makes sense, but I don't know why an airbridge could not be attached ?

hch

I could see an airbridge beeing attached to a plane in front of me and lots of pax walking out. But there might be more planes waiting then there are jet-bridges. At least all bridges I can see from the lounge-window are taken.

hch

261/2004 seems to be pretty clear that compensation is waived for extra-ordinary circumstances (which makes sense), but assistance and care and thus the hotel room is not.

Well, let's see how this works out.