mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Will somebody be summoned to the headmasters office in Swords at 9am to explain this excusion ! 🤔
FR423 holding at Cork. That bad cross wind doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
34 miles apart.. ouch that’s one long journey !
Go arounds still happening, I take it they had to land due to fuel.
9H-VUP is still circling. Did they take on too much fuel?
Landed.
TUI SSH to GLA squawked 7700 after an aborted landing, now diverting. 6 hours and 41 minutes in the air so far!
Gone around now and making an attempt from the south.
ryan air going ioto Cork.
Gone around!
RYR74VZ aborted, about to go around again.
Looks like a second aborted landing...
And again…
I guess I'm only watching this because I know someone on one of the diverted flights. But, is this number of go-arounds and diversions to far away airports, unusual, even for the weather conditions?
Looks like RYR1MC just aborted too, must be really bad conditions at the airport!
apparently the oral part of the LC mocks in my niece's school have been postponed because a bunch of the teachers were in edinburgh for the weekend and look like they're stuck there - and a ryanair flight from EDI which was scheduled to land four and a half hours ago, just aborted a landing.
It's both very strong winds and from a south westerly direction for a sustained time. That's very bad for DUB and ORK which have westerly and southerly runways. Hence BFS and SNN mainly operational.
Second aborted landing now with this one too.
Poor RYR74VZ is just circling in the Irish sea waiting for a third attempt.
Looks like RYR74VZ has had enough! Off to SNN!
RYR1MC just landed on the third attempt. First time today I've seen a Ryanair plane having a third go.
Must be bad there too. FR2970 Tenerife - Edinburgh diverted to Amsterdam or Germany?
FR816 took off 8 hours late from Dub to EDI, one go around and now headed south, currently above NCL - ouch.
edit - still climbing, could be off to Amsterdam!
Looks like it's heading to cologne as is FR6761 sev - edi
I've missed out a whole chunk of this thread, but is that a record or near it for distance from your intended destination??
Never mind the time taken to get there!!
DUB to EDI was meant to depart at 3.30PM, finally left but couldn't land after midnight. Now en route to Colonge or somewhere on the continent. Absolutely absurd.
Ant - man has been in the air 5hr 43 min and now heading to lys
Madness putting planes up in the air, and struggling to get then down again safely.
Yesterday was off the scale in terms of disruption. The main reason being the usual diversion alternatives being MAN or BHX or London or Belfast, were all equally pushing limits too. It was unusual to see such a wide ranging wind event right across the UK and Ireland. Also being strong SW direction, none of the W facing runways were of much use.
Credit to the newest operator Emerald Airlines for calling it early (with all their ops on these islands) and cancelling the lot. Giving people clarity, presumably getting hotels booked in and a much more pleasant (albeit disruptive) travel experience.
You now have people scattered across Europe in countries they had no intention of being in!
Copenhagen ending in Liverpool. Edingburgh in Cologne. Zagreb in Luxembourg, the list goes on!
In fairness the ATRs have lower wind limits than jets, so it would have been more obvious that Emerald wouldn't be operating.
FR5853 FCO-ORK gone around in cork and heading straight for Shannon.
Safely is a bit subjective. There were no accidents. They also managed to complete 75% of the flights apparently.
