aircraft oh dublin

spatchco

yesterday at about this time i had flightradar24.com on and was checking an aircraft flying south overhead dublin,it was a thompson flight,now when i clicked on the flight to see where it started and where it was going,it took off at gatwick and was heading for montigo bay,now what would bring it the route it took it headed north west from london turned over liverpool over dublin than headed south over cork,adding another i-2 hours to the flight,

highlydebased

spatchco wrote: »

yesterday at about this time i had flightradar24.com on and was checking an aircraft flying south overhead dublin,it was a thompson flight,now when i clicked on the flight to see where it started and where it was going,it took off at gatwick and was heading for montigo bay,now what would bring it the route it took it headed north west from london turned over liverpool over dublin than headed south over cork,adding another i-2 hours to the flight,

Standard enough routing, definitely wouldn't add 1-2 hours...20 minutes maybe.

alan85

If it was doing Lon - Mon. Bay it would be perfectly normal to route North and then route more southerly half way to destination. It wouldn't be normal for it to route Lon - Dublin - Cork - oceanic. If it did happen like that maybe there was another Thompson flight out of Manchester that got mixed up as Thompson regularly route over Dublin from Man???

Su Campu

Translatlantic flights can take wildely varying routes depending on upper winds along the way. There's nothing unusual about what you saw, and in fact they would have saved time going that way instead as it wasn't too far off the great circle route if you look at the big picture.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=LGW-MBJ

spatchco

thanks for the replys much appricated

EchoIndia

The points of departure/destination indicated for charter flights in FR24 are often incorrect, as charter operators chop and change flight numbers much more than scheduled ones.