Dublin Airport Winds

sdanseo

Just to inform,

Listening to the airband scanner atm, about every second plane is missng the runway due to the winds (240deg @44 Gusts to 54kts last time i checked - bout 120-130km/h gusts). A serious amount of aircraft are diverting to Shannon or Belfast Aldergrove.

To plagarise a list I found online:

SNN
EI603 from AMS
FR207 from STN
FR113 from LGW
FR603 from MME
EI683 from GVA
EI503 from BRS
EI101 from DXB
FR217 from STN
EI753 from ALC
AF5006 from CDG

BFS
EI153 from LHR
EI521 from CDG
EI155 from LHR
OK670 from PRG
EI333 from SXF
BD125 from LHR
EI481 from LIS
EI563 from BCN

Source: http://forums.ifsd.ie

I'm presuming this is the right place :P

Wishbone Ash

Seems to be going OK again since about 3pm according to a question just posed by a British pilot to the tower.

cast_iron

My sister was on one of those planes coming back from NY.
5 attempts at landing - all failed. Eventually diverted to Shannon with people screaming, getting sick and the lot.
Very frightening for all involved.

Wishbone Ash

cast_iron wrote:

My sister was on one of those planes coming back from NY.
5 attempts at landing - all failed. Eventually diverted to Shannon with people screaming, getting sick and the lot.
Very frightening for all involved.

I wouldn't fancy being on an Aer Arann plane today. :eek:

sdanseo

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I wouldn't fancy being on an Aer Arann plane today. :eek:

ATR72's are hilarious in the wind...on a serious note, Aer Arann has cancelled all of their flights for today.

All Aer Arann flights have been cancelled for the day and further delays are expected to flights in and out of Dublin Airport that are still operating.

Vincent Wall of Aer Lingus says 21 inbound flights have been diverted away from Dublin Airport. A futher 13 inbound flights and 28 outbound are cancelled.

Source: RTÉ News

minotour

My missus is stuck in Prague, inbound flight didnt get off the ground. Aer lingus not offering any compensation nor advising anybody............Im gonna take 'em to the cleaners!

Wishbone Ash

minotour wrote:

Aer lingus not offering any compensation

I didn't think that they were expected to compensate for weather delays. If they are not cleared for take off, it's not the airline's fault.

A Dub in Glasgo

I was on a flybe DASH 8 from Birmingham to Glasgow on Friday evening. The landing was the scariest I have ever been in. The plane lurched from left to right and up and down on approach over Glasgow. Very heavy winds with driving rain. Landed perfectly though.

MrPudding

minotour wrote:

............Im gonna take 'em to the cleaners!

Take them to the cleaners for what? I thought compensation was only if they were responsible for the delay. Therefore I would presume you could only take them to the cleaners if you could prove that their weather control machine malfunctioned, causing the storms, and the malfunction was to to an action or lack of action on their part.

MrP

Bards

I was on a flight from Stuttgart yesterday.. Pilot said he'd make one attempt to see if he could make it before decideing to divert. Luckily for us he managed to whack it down. Landing was hard and fassssssttt:D

Our man in Havana

MrPudding wrote:

Take them to the cleaners for what? I thought compensation was only if they were responsible for the delay. Therefore I would presume you could only take them to the cleaners if you could prove that their weather control machine malfunctioned, causing the storms, and the malfunction was to to an action or lack of action on their part.

MrP

Who maintains the Hacker Hellstorm these days?

Guy:Incognito

Bond-007 wrote:

Who maintains the Hacker Hellstorm these days?

I do, i was off sick over the weekend . Sorry for the inconvenience folks.

Random

There was somewhere online you could listen to DUblin Airport approach tower before? I've lost the link - anyone remember?

admiralofthefleet

control tower

http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/eidw.m3u

Random

That'll do nicely
What time does ATC close at Dublin Airport or is DA 24hr?

Wishbone Ash

ciaranfo wrote:

What time does ATC close at Dublin Airport or is DA 24hr?

I would presume that ATC would have to be 24 hours as flights may be delayed or emergency non scheduled landings may be required. Generally the last passenger flights depart around midnight/1am (usually Latvia, Lithuania etc.) and the first passenger landing is usually the Aer Lingus overnight from New York which comes in around 5.30/6 am. There are however a few cargo flights during the night which obviously require ATC also (eg. FedEx, DHL etc.) During the summer months charter flights from popular holiday destinations arrive at all hours.

Random

I should proberly have been more specific Wishbone Ash. I ment normal operations of course

therecklessone

ciaranfo wrote:

I should proberly have been more specific Wishbone Ash. I ment normal operations of course

ATC @ Dublin is H24, both tower and radar services.

Dublin ATC isn't limited to providing a service to Dublin Airport, en-route traffic transits Dublin's airspace and ATC also provide initial radar vectoring to traffic inbound to Baldonnel.