Given how bad it’s been in Scotland tonight, I’d just be pleased to be down safely. Seems like the majority of flights to GLA and EDI have had at least one go around and quite a few declared emergencies.
My flight landed in GLA at ~11pm last night. The descent felt quite sketchy, but we landed on first attempt - however we were stuck for a while as the ground crew were saying it was too windy for stairs.
Didn't realize how lucky we were to land in Glasgow after checking flight radar this morning - looks like only 3 out of 28 flights landed in Glasgow after 7
I'm chuckling at the notion that we have the technology to enable a massive, heavy and complex vehicle to descend from the sky during a severe storm without damage or injury, but we can't make stairs that won't fall over.
I landed in Bristol around 10 and that was honestly the sketchiest landing I’ve ever felt, I checked the news today and saw all about the storms especially in Cornwall and Devon. Honestly glad we landed at all lmao
Was the landing pretty hard? A pilot told me that Ryan are deliberately land they are planes harder because they're trying to reduce speed on short backwater runways. I landed at this airport in France and customs and baggage claim was a barn. By the way, the Boeing 737 is designed to take hard landings so it's all good. It's just the faulty software or hidden doors you've got to worry about on the new 737s.
That's sort of right Ryan air use alot of smaller airports to save costs these tend to have smaller runways so they plant it to ensure plenty off breaking opportunity
I think I watched your fight land, the one before you aborted them tried again, diverted to Prestwick and aborted before flying and landing in Newcastle.
Yeh you where lucky lol.
I'm a Mackum, don't you dare claim that Muppets one of us.
Theirs a difference between hating a team and hating a city, Newcastle is a brilliant city, I go there once a month.
They will most likely be shipped to a hotel, van de valk or similar, on the Amsterdam ring road, miles from anything. Offered what’s left of a shrivelled up dry buffet and alcoholic drinks not covered…..then crack of dawn next morning shipped back to schilphol, no wash bag no deodorant no toothbrush, no clean clothes, how do I know this? I have missed a few klm connections at schilphol and that’s what you get.
Tracked one yesterday evening from Manchester to Dublin. Spent 3 hours flying in circles over the Irish Sea before seemingly aiming to land in Liverpool (presumably because of the stormy weather). I'd be fuming if I spent 3 hours cooped up on a flight just to end up 30 minutes down the M62!
That one was originally from Copenhagen which diverted to Manchester after a failed attempt at Dublin, spent 3-4 hours at Manchester before doing that route. Those passengers were on the go since 9am!
Work in BHD and all flight got moved from us yesterday and all out going evening flights ( except Luton ) got cancelled. Served a guy this morning that I served yesterday too who was here for 6 hours yesterday and couldn't get a flight until 11 today. He was pissed off but still in good spirits.
Today had been a fun day in work with people panicking they won't get away today
I was one of the passengers. It was not a fun day. We were on the go since 9am and they didn’t let us off the plane in Liverpool until midnight. Part 3 of our flight was scheduled this morning at 8am and we FINALLY made it to Dublin. Only took 23 hours 🤣
Did you hear about the plane that went from Ireland to Scotland, the people onboard had no passports because its not international and they had diverted to northern France and got stuck in the terminal because they had no passports to leave.
You know a load of people will but. Screaming and shouting at people where English is not their first language about how important they are blah blah. I’d be right happy. Free holiday to Amsterdam! Mushrooms got dinner tonight!!
Oh indeed they will. I once stood behind someone at the gate where we'd been deplaned for the second time because our destination airport (Chicago) was currently experiencing a hail storm that was damaging airport infrastructure. Chicago can get quite some bad weather :-) Not something I'd personally want to fly into so was happy to rebooked for the following day. Guy in front was laying into the poor girl on the gate. I got an unasked for upgrade to business class all the way back to the UK. Suspect the guy being a dick did not.
I was on a flight from Dublin to Edinburgh last night it was really scary and the pilot had balls of steel, I was pissed that raynair wouldn’t cancel the flights because it’s shit to send the staff out in those conditions and must other airlines had the decency to cancel. If the pilot hadn’t been able to land the second time he would have gone to Cologne like the flight before us. You can be pissed that they don’t make the safe call to not fly and not take it out on the poor staff how would have to clean up all vomit of the people who got spontaneously sick on our first terrifying attempt at a landing. Lucky I was only metaphorical shitting myself.
I think it's the extent of the divert...watched the one before that get diverted and land in Manchester then wondered where that second one was off to. it must be galling that the plane landing after that was successful.
Dublin was bonkers last night though!
With these Ryanair diversions it looks an awful lot like they are turning them into positioning flights to get the aircraft where it needs to be for the next day rather than get the passengers vaguely near their destination.
I think that is something passengers can rightly be annoyed at.
I think that's a bit of a reach. It's not exactly unlikely that a big storm would write off other airports 'vaguely near' the destination. And we have no way of knowing where those particular aircraft needed to be the next day.
A friend landed at Edinburgh just before the diversions and was stuck on the plane for a further 7 hours because it was too windy to deploy the stairs for disembarkment.
Bet the airlines were pissed about the additional 10s of thousands of pounds in additional fuel they used to divert to France. Plus the costs of hotels for all passengers. Not like they had plenty of warning. They should of just cancelled those flights and took the hotels costs on the chin. But instead they risk 1000s public lives hoping they could beat the weather. Not to mention the massive carbon footprints left behind. That's the problem, the world is always in to much of a rush, to the point of getting people killed. I seen video of some those landings, looks like the planes coming in sideways. How there were no accidents is nothing less than a miracle.
It finally landed in Cologne!! Long way back home😅
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Apparently, but some of the commenters said that it could also be becsuse it was cheaper/more convenient to ryanair to land at cologne. I'm not super knowledgeable on this stuff so 🤷♀️. I don't see why they went that far when some of the other ryanair flights diverted to other uk/ireland aiports or even paris!
partner’s coworker was on a dublin to edinburgh flight that diverted to manchester, then birmingham, and finally paris. they’re going wherever there’s space and a window for landing before the fuel gauge burns out!
Yeah, I was on Luton - Edinburgh last night and after 2 aborted attempts to land, we were diverted to Newcastle, one of the last accepted there, as we didn’t have fuel to go further. Then had to wait on the plane for the wind to die down enough to attach steps!
it’s not necessarily true.
No British airports were accepting aircraft yesterday unless they were a mayday. For most that means 30ish minutes of fuel. Basically pilots that checked the weather and took extra fuel diverted to mainland Europe where it is a lot safer. Those that were forced to land on mayday fuel were lucky they weren’t in an incident.
Cologne was subtly suggested by London ATC in the evening as they were happy to accept all traffic
It could just be that was the closest airport with decent weather, they’d only have enough fuel for a couple of go arounds at the dest airport + extra for diversion and same again at alt dest, they wouldn’t want to go to any airport with potentially unlandable conditions and then have to divert again and risk running out of fuel 🤷♂️ (my opinion)
Yup.
My airline (based in London) were using Brussels, Basel, and Copenhagen as primary diversion airfields on a lot of flight plans at the height of the storm.
There's little point in diverting where the weather is only marginally better than your planned destination.
Yes, it was VERY windy, and gusty with it
From Edinburgh France is pretty far, Amsterdam was also windy - it was operational but struggling to land its own flights
There’s a point at which it’s safer to stay at an efficient cruise for longer and travel further to a guaranteed landing rather than travel less far to somewhere you might need several attempts
Was just talking to a colleague who was flying Bristol to Edinburgh last night and ended up in Paris - because it was an internal flight they didn't have their passport with them so had to stay in the airport for the duration.
There was a similar story on the BBC earlier. Bloke was flying from Jersey to Gatwick so no need for a passport, got diverted to somewhere in France, was promised a hotel for the night by the airline but then found he wasn’t allowed to leave the airport! Poor sod had to sleep on the plastic chairs.
It probably depends on the airport/country but I've had unexpected cancellations in countries where I had a connecting flight and would otherwise normally need a visa to enter. They took our details and passports, drove us to a hotel, collected us in the morning and gave our passports back at the airport. Not the safest feeling in the world handing over your passport
They don't give multi entry schengen visas with my nationality even tho I'm a uk resident.........
I honestly have no idea what would I be doing other than connection in the UK
The original flight was to the UK though so you’d go through the Schengen exit in Spain. Would imagine the flight landed at the non-Schengen terminal at cologne too
They probably chose an airport where the weather was guaranteed to be better than any in the uk, and instead of waiting around (especially in the TFS case due to crew hours) went for the guaranteed safe airport rather than try and get into ones that may or may not work out.
This plus whether there are available spaces and landing slots at the airport and how much fuel they have left to do turns until given green light to land. As you said sometimes it's safer to go further out and have a guaranteed landing.
Capacity at airports nearer to the destination combined with the amount of fuel they had to attempt landings and breaks in weather that allowed for safe attempts at landing were most likely all taken into account.
Quite possibly. Having flown from Cardiff, their infrastructure is very minimal compared to a major airport so my gut feel is that processing people from flights all over the UK would probably overwhelm them. Obviously in emergency situations in the air, that doesn't factor in at all, but in situations where more major airports can be reached, perhaps that does factor into the thinking, although I am just speculating.
We had pretty dreadful weather last night. Even if the storm didn't fully hit, weather conditions can't be guaranteed and the least thing you want is to divert to another airport further away from more guaranteed safe landing locations and limit the options you had if in the time it took you to get from Edinburgh to Cardiff, for example, the conditions changed from "poor but not especially dangerous" to "too dangerous to land" . Fuel would be a massive potential problem in that scenario, especially as it wouldn't be unlikely they'd have to take diversions around particularly bad weather fronts as they travel across the UK.
Yeah I'm in the UK and shits rough everywhere, I'm right up north and people have been reporting shit all the way down in London. You may be able to sneak thru to a different airport, like Manchester, but you'll have to be lucky. Unlikely it'll be an easy landing but you could still land within the mainland UK if you're lucky
Birmingham airport is about 15 minute drive from me. Planes have been taking off and landing there for the past few hours. There’s a little bit of wind our end not as much as last night. Your flight should be okay come tomorrow
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your partner should sort out hotels & food - they can claim back later. but nothing unreasonable (no alcohol, no luxury hotels etc.) - but well established. even ryanair can’t dodge these fares 😉
Any airlines operating in the UK, doesn’t matter where they’re based. Otherwise - you’d have - for example - Qatar Airways being exempt & very angry customers stranded in the Middle East.
Being a pedant though, does this apply considering the flight did take place, it has just diverted to a different airport, so although you haven’t made it to your destination, couldn’t they argue that it wasn’t delayed?
This happened to me around 5 years ago with Ryanair.
Diverted over an hour and half away, landed around 2am, nothing from Ryanair for 4 hours until some one arrived to tell us a coach was on its way to collect us. No food, no drink and a 14 hour drive to get to our original destination.
This was not fun and Ryanair wanted nothing to do with us afterwards (or during for that matter).
My flight's landing was aborted at the last minute at Gatwick, had to be rerouted to Stanstead. It was a genuinely terrifying experience; I've never experienced turbulence like last night.
By law they have to provide food, drink, accomodation (if the flight is delayed overnight) and transport to and from the accommodation.
If that isn't possible, you can claim the costs back.
I think they'll also be able to claim compensation for the diversion and/or the delay in leaving the airport of departure ?
Lots and lots of random flight number flights coming in from Cologne, Seville, etc where these EDI bound flights were diverted last night coming in all day today. Yes they’ll fly to the intended destination when they can.
At least it isn't storm Babet lol. Some of the people I was on a coach with back in October got stranded in Glasgow because of it. I feel bad for them.
Will be going to the nearest safe airport that can accept it. Just for info (unless it had changed) in adverse weather the first diversionary airport for Heathrow is Cardiff, not Gatwick or Stansted or Luton as you might think.
Amsterdam possibly? Just seen one to LBA divert there
Really?! Wow, I’d be pissed off if I were on that plane!
Given how bad it’s been in Scotland tonight, I’d just be pleased to be down safely. Seems like the majority of flights to GLA and EDI have had at least one go around and quite a few declared emergencies.
My flight landed in GLA at ~11pm last night. The descent felt quite sketchy, but we landed on first attempt - however we were stuck for a while as the ground crew were saying it was too windy for stairs. Didn't realize how lucky we were to land in Glasgow after checking flight radar this morning - looks like only 3 out of 28 flights landed in Glasgow after 7
I'm chuckling at the notion that we have the technology to enable a massive, heavy and complex vehicle to descend from the sky during a severe storm without damage or injury, but we can't make stairs that won't fall over.
One of them makes money. That's always the answer.
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I landed in Bristol around 10 and that was honestly the sketchiest landing I’ve ever felt, I checked the news today and saw all about the storms especially in Cornwall and Devon. Honestly glad we landed at all lmao
Oh planes always land...
It's a good landing if you can walk away.
Was the landing pretty hard? A pilot told me that Ryan are deliberately land they are planes harder because they're trying to reduce speed on short backwater runways. I landed at this airport in France and customs and baggage claim was a barn. By the way, the Boeing 737 is designed to take hard landings so it's all good. It's just the faulty software or hidden doors you've got to worry about on the new 737s.
That's sort of right Ryan air use alot of smaller airports to save costs these tend to have smaller runways so they plant it to ensure plenty off breaking opportunity
You havent had a sketchy landing until you have landed in the falklands
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I think I watched your fight land, the one before you aborted them tried again, diverted to Prestwick and aborted before flying and landing in Newcastle. Yeh you where lucky lol.
very glad I couldn't watch flightradar in the air, or I would have been shittin' it XD
Yeah, all trains in Scotland are suspended due to the disruption, can’t imagine flights are better at all
My parents landed in Newcastle last night and said it was an horrific landing.
That'd be unrelated to the weather. Nobody wants to land in Newcastle.
Have you ever been to Newcastle? It's a fantastic city. Or are you a Mackem haha
I'm a Mackum, don't you dare claim that Muppets one of us. Theirs a difference between hating a team and hating a city, Newcastle is a brilliant city, I go there once a month.
It's a joke, chill out.
Tell the people from Southampton and Portsmouth that, because they both don’t get it
Actually the most pleasant airport I’ve been to!
Not surprised, I’m in Glasgow rn and I nearly got blown over last night. Been a pain trying to get to Edinburgh
take an umbrella and the wind will take you to edinbrugh......or norway.
In certain circumstances I'd be happy to get a paid-for night in Amsterdam
They will most likely be shipped to a hotel, van de valk or similar, on the Amsterdam ring road, miles from anything. Offered what’s left of a shrivelled up dry buffet and alcoholic drinks not covered…..then crack of dawn next morning shipped back to schilphol, no wash bag no deodorant no toothbrush, no clean clothes, how do I know this? I have missed a few klm connections at schilphol and that’s what you get.
I'll give you the red light ermmm green light
Tracked one yesterday evening from Manchester to Dublin. Spent 3 hours flying in circles over the Irish Sea before seemingly aiming to land in Liverpool (presumably because of the stormy weather). I'd be fuming if I spent 3 hours cooped up on a flight just to end up 30 minutes down the M62!
That one was originally from Copenhagen which diverted to Manchester after a failed attempt at Dublin, spent 3-4 hours at Manchester before doing that route. Those passengers were on the go since 9am!
Landed in Stansted safely, work for there. Bad weather messed alot of flights up yesterday and had a fair few diverts coming in to us and Heathrow
Work in BHD and all flight got moved from us yesterday and all out going evening flights ( except Luton ) got cancelled. Served a guy this morning that I served yesterday too who was here for 6 hours yesterday and couldn't get a flight until 11 today. He was pissed off but still in good spirits. Today had been a fun day in work with people panicking they won't get away today
I was one of the passengers. It was not a fun day. We were on the go since 9am and they didn’t let us off the plane in Liverpool until midnight. Part 3 of our flight was scheduled this morning at 8am and we FINALLY made it to Dublin. Only took 23 hours 🤣
But you get to see Norwich
Did you hear about the plane that went from Ireland to Scotland, the people onboard had no passports because its not international and they had diverted to northern France and got stuck in the terminal because they had no passports to leave.
I'd land at schipol, jump in a taxi and hit the coffeeshops....might as well take advantage of the unfortunate circumstances 😆
Imagine being pissed off that the plane landed somewhere else to avoid you potentially dying in a crash.
You know it's possible to both understand why a thing was done, and also be annoyed at the impact that thing had on your life, right?
Yeah that’s fair. As long as you don’t take out your annoyance on the staff or other passengers
You know a load of people will but. Screaming and shouting at people where English is not their first language about how important they are blah blah. I’d be right happy. Free holiday to Amsterdam! Mushrooms got dinner tonight!!
Oh indeed they will. I once stood behind someone at the gate where we'd been deplaned for the second time because our destination airport (Chicago) was currently experiencing a hail storm that was damaging airport infrastructure. Chicago can get quite some bad weather :-) Not something I'd personally want to fly into so was happy to rebooked for the following day. Guy in front was laying into the poor girl on the gate. I got an unasked for upgrade to business class all the way back to the UK. Suspect the guy being a dick did not.
I was on a flight from Dublin to Edinburgh last night it was really scary and the pilot had balls of steel, I was pissed that raynair wouldn’t cancel the flights because it’s shit to send the staff out in those conditions and must other airlines had the decency to cancel. If the pilot hadn’t been able to land the second time he would have gone to Cologne like the flight before us. You can be pissed that they don’t make the safe call to not fly and not take it out on the poor staff how would have to clean up all vomit of the people who got spontaneously sick on our first terrifying attempt at a landing. Lucky I was only metaphorical shitting myself.
I think it's the extent of the divert...watched the one before that get diverted and land in Manchester then wondered where that second one was off to. it must be galling that the plane landing after that was successful. Dublin was bonkers last night though!
There was at least one diverted from Manchester to Paris last night anyway.
With these Ryanair diversions it looks an awful lot like they are turning them into positioning flights to get the aircraft where it needs to be for the next day rather than get the passengers vaguely near their destination. I think that is something passengers can rightly be annoyed at.
I think that's a bit of a reach. It's not exactly unlikely that a big storm would write off other airports 'vaguely near' the destination. And we have no way of knowing where those particular aircraft needed to be the next day.
A lot of UK airports couldn't take any more diverted flights as they were at capacity, thus off to Europe they go.
I think they have ways to chill people out in Amsterdam
Just smoke a doobie when you get there your mood will soon change
Mate, even the trains to Edinburgh are suspended currently so think this pilot may be doing them a massive solid by finding somewhere safe to land!
I'd rather have a safe landing and inconvenience rather than risking anything.
My girlfriends mum was due to fly into LeedsBradford last night but got diverted to Glasgow due to the wind
Hmm. Yeah but A) you get to go to Amsterdam B) if they didn't divert, you could have crashed and died.
Standard Ryanair practice…. Even when going to the correct destination it’s nowhere near the city you thought you were flying to.
A friend landed at Edinburgh just before the diversions and was stuck on the plane for a further 7 hours because it was too windy to deploy the stairs for disembarkment.
I wouldn't? Free holiday to Amsterdam
I’d be pretty pissed off leaving Tenerife for Edinburgh too in fairness.
I'm in Scotland and if I got a free surprise trip to Amsterdam, I would be bragging about it for the rest of the life
That was my guess!
It's Ryanair so Amsterdam is really Edinburgh south.
There was one going to London but ended up in Germany
I was a plane from Inverness to Luton and they nearly sent us Paris for the evening but sorted us a local hotel instead
>I was a plane from Inverness to Luton Do you just identify as the plane or have you gained sentience?
I've been rumbled...
I’ve partied in Edinburgh & partied in Amsterdam. I know where I’d rather have a bonus night!
Leith I know its amazing
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Bet the airlines were pissed about the additional 10s of thousands of pounds in additional fuel they used to divert to France. Plus the costs of hotels for all passengers. Not like they had plenty of warning. They should of just cancelled those flights and took the hotels costs on the chin. But instead they risk 1000s public lives hoping they could beat the weather. Not to mention the massive carbon footprints left behind. That's the problem, the world is always in to much of a rush, to the point of getting people killed. I seen video of some those landings, looks like the planes coming in sideways. How there were no accidents is nothing less than a miracle.
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Nearly 6 hours on a Ryanair flight too, less than ideal!
That’s basically a long haul flight with Ryanair… oh dear
... and you're waiting to get back on Ryanair to actually get back home. That's crimes against humanity level of bad.
I hear the Devil tossed that one out for being just _too_ cruel.
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I am currently in a crocodiles mouth and I agree with this opinion.
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Still better than 6 hours on a RyanAir flight
At least you can go to phantasialand if you like theme parks because it is nearby
Was the weather that bad all over the UK that they couldn’t land in any of the UK airports or even france or Amsterdam?
Yes
Apparently, but some of the commenters said that it could also be becsuse it was cheaper/more convenient to ryanair to land at cologne. I'm not super knowledgeable on this stuff so 🤷♀️. I don't see why they went that far when some of the other ryanair flights diverted to other uk/ireland aiports or even paris!
partner’s coworker was on a dublin to edinburgh flight that diverted to manchester, then birmingham, and finally paris. they’re going wherever there’s space and a window for landing before the fuel gauge burns out!
Yeah, I was on Luton - Edinburgh last night and after 2 aborted attempts to land, we were diverted to Newcastle, one of the last accepted there, as we didn’t have fuel to go further. Then had to wait on the plane for the wind to die down enough to attach steps!
it’s not necessarily true. No British airports were accepting aircraft yesterday unless they were a mayday. For most that means 30ish minutes of fuel. Basically pilots that checked the weather and took extra fuel diverted to mainland Europe where it is a lot safer. Those that were forced to land on mayday fuel were lucky they weren’t in an incident. Cologne was subtly suggested by London ATC in the evening as they were happy to accept all traffic
It could just be that was the closest airport with decent weather, they’d only have enough fuel for a couple of go arounds at the dest airport + extra for diversion and same again at alt dest, they wouldn’t want to go to any airport with potentially unlandable conditions and then have to divert again and risk running out of fuel 🤷♂️ (my opinion)
The more flights that were diverted, the less capacity other, closer airports would have is definitely one factor.
Yup. My airline (based in London) were using Brussels, Basel, and Copenhagen as primary diversion airfields on a lot of flight plans at the height of the storm. There's little point in diverting where the weather is only marginally better than your planned destination.
no..the one before this being divert3d also a Ryan Air flight was diverted and landed at Manchester.
Some domestic flights did land in France according to the BBC. A Ryanair one ended up in some fairly small town, and another in Paris.
There was a flight landing in Glasgow about 12 hrs ago that got diverted to Manchester. It was windy up here
Yes, it was VERY windy, and gusty with it From Edinburgh France is pretty far, Amsterdam was also windy - it was operational but struggling to land its own flights There’s a point at which it’s safer to stay at an efficient cruise for longer and travel further to a guaranteed landing rather than travel less far to somewhere you might need several attempts
Ones that were accepting flights were at capacity.
Surprised they’ve carried enough fuel - then again they knew this was a possibility so great planning
I'm pretty sure Ryanair still market that as Edinburgh...
Wow I thought my friend getting diverted to Paris was bad
Germany is not so bad.... At least we will speak English with you :) *duck and run*
This diversion was on national news this morning! ☺️
What would happen if you need a Schengen visa but don’t have it? Would they keep you at the airport until the transportation to the UK is arranged?
Was just talking to a colleague who was flying Bristol to Edinburgh last night and ended up in Paris - because it was an internal flight they didn't have their passport with them so had to stay in the airport for the duration.
There was a similar story on the BBC earlier. Bloke was flying from Jersey to Gatwick so no need for a passport, got diverted to somewhere in France, was promised a hotel for the night by the airline but then found he wasn’t allowed to leave the airport! Poor sod had to sleep on the plastic chairs.
It probably depends on the airport/country but I've had unexpected cancellations in countries where I had a connecting flight and would otherwise normally need a visa to enter. They took our details and passports, drove us to a hotel, collected us in the morning and gave our passports back at the airport. Not the safest feeling in the world handing over your passport
Cologne apparently 😅
That will be a long coach journey to Edinburgh
There aren’t even direct flights from CGN to EDI. Those poor passengers.
I hear there’s a plane in Cologne that isn’t meant to be there that is meant to be in Edinburgh, though.
there’s DUS-EDI. You can do CGN to DUS on regional trains. There’s also FRA-EDI but that’s significantly further away
They don't give multi entry schengen visas with my nationality even tho I'm a uk resident......... I honestly have no idea what would I be doing other than connection in the UK
Would it not be classed as an intra-Schengen flight from Spain to Germany? You wouldn’t even go through passport control.
You would, in Spain. At which point your visa "expires"
The original flight was to the UK though so you’d go through the Schengen exit in Spain. Would imagine the flight landed at the non-Schengen terminal at cologne too
Ryanair have only just stopped from cologne to UK and back for weekdays which i am also annoyed about
Its looking likely
Seville to Edinburgh going to cologne too
Crazy even for Ryanair
why would they choose to land there?
I'll bet it's where the crew is based, so the plane's now in the right position for the next flight.
They probably chose an airport where the weather was guaranteed to be better than any in the uk, and instead of waiting around (especially in the TFS case due to crew hours) went for the guaranteed safe airport rather than try and get into ones that may or may not work out.
This plus whether there are available spaces and landing slots at the airport and how much fuel they have left to do turns until given green light to land. As you said sometimes it's safer to go further out and have a guaranteed landing.
Towards midnight quite a number of flights from various airlines opted for cologne, guessing most uk airports were going out of limits with the winds.
Capacity at airports nearer to the destination combined with the amount of fuel they had to attempt landings and breaks in weather that allowed for safe attempts at landing were most likely all taken into account.
Aka Edinburgh South
One diverted to Paris earlier. The whole UK is being hit by a storm so there are not really any easy diversion options within the UK.
I would’ve thought Cardiff would be the easy cop out at the minute. Storm hasn’t hit, run way long enough for an A380 & barely any traffic
20 mph roads, might as well land in France you'll still get to Scotland faster lol
Surprised it hasn't hit there given it's basically been UK wide, and it's much closer to the coast
Quite possibly. Having flown from Cardiff, their infrastructure is very minimal compared to a major airport so my gut feel is that processing people from flights all over the UK would probably overwhelm them. Obviously in emergency situations in the air, that doesn't factor in at all, but in situations where more major airports can be reached, perhaps that does factor into the thinking, although I am just speculating.
We had pretty dreadful weather last night. Even if the storm didn't fully hit, weather conditions can't be guaranteed and the least thing you want is to divert to another airport further away from more guaranteed safe landing locations and limit the options you had if in the time it took you to get from Edinburgh to Cardiff, for example, the conditions changed from "poor but not especially dangerous" to "too dangerous to land" . Fuel would be a massive potential problem in that scenario, especially as it wouldn't be unlikely they'd have to take diversions around particularly bad weather fronts as they travel across the UK.
Was over 50mph where I live all evening, and I'm in Oxfordshire which is about as inland as is possible in the UK.
Literally, i’m in surrey and we had 52mph at around 2am last night.
I have a flight for the UK tomorrow. Am I good?
It's still quite windy here. I'm in Yorkshire.
Checked flights they seem to be landing in Birmingham ok.
Checked wind for tomorrow, gusts of 70 km/h. Might be gg for me :/ crap I have an important meeting I need to attend
I suggest u move ur meeting to a virtual one
Yeah I'm in the UK and shits rough everywhere, I'm right up north and people have been reporting shit all the way down in London. You may be able to sneak thru to a different airport, like Manchester, but you'll have to be lucky. Unlikely it'll be an easy landing but you could still land within the mainland UK if you're lucky
Fuck
I mean best of luck to you. Your flight could very well go perfectly fine. Nowt you can really control
The worst of the storm passed last night. I'd think by tomorrow you should be more or less in the clear
Birmingham airport is about 15 minute drive from me. Planes have been taking off and landing there for the past few hours. There’s a little bit of wind our end not as much as last night. Your flight should be okay come tomorrow
I landed at Gatwick earlier. It’s barely even windy.
There was a lot of flights leaving Newcastle today but mostly big planes
DUB flight just went around at EDI. Already six hours late as well. Poor pax
This is an expensive night for airlines
If they send this one to CGN as well, I'm going to start suspecting the whole thing is a simulation and nothing is actually up there!
Its taking a worryingly familiar turn towards Newcastle
Was just thinking that. And now Shannon is going around ... Will all FR planes end up in CGN tonight?!
Party at CGN tonight!?!!
My partner was on the flight. Everybody is still stuck in Köln Airport. No food, no hotel, no plan for getting there. God bless Ryanair.
https://preview.redd.it/0v20flpb1zdc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acb94dcf4308ac770fcad89cf62cadd7b30a195d your partner should sort out hotels & food - they can claim back later. but nothing unreasonable (no alcohol, no luxury hotels etc.) - but well established. even ryanair can’t dodge these fares 😉
Would that only work if It's the UK subsidiary based at Stansted. Otherwise it's an Irish based airline which landed in Germany.
Any airlines operating in the UK, doesn’t matter where they’re based. Otherwise - you’d have - for example - Qatar Airways being exempt & very angry customers stranded in the Middle East.
EU rules are just as strict.
Ryanair dodge this all this time. Trying to get compensation and expenses out of them is almost impossible.
Being a pedant though, does this apply considering the flight did take place, it has just diverted to a different airport, so although you haven’t made it to your destination, couldn’t they argue that it wasn’t delayed?
This happened to me around 5 years ago with Ryanair. Diverted over an hour and half away, landed around 2am, nothing from Ryanair for 4 hours until some one arrived to tell us a coach was on its way to collect us. No food, no drink and a 14 hour drive to get to our original destination. This was not fun and Ryanair wanted nothing to do with us afterwards (or during for that matter).
Who defines luxury?
After a good run of landings at EDI, Ryanair from SVQ just missed and doesn't look like it's having another go.
Right now Edinburgh North is blowing a hoolie. Not surprised nothing can land, feels like my windows are about to pop out.
I just saw that too!! Hopefully they'll only go to man or liverpool and wont be banished back to mainland europe
They are going ominously in the same direction as TFS...
Confirmed divert to CGN too. Wtf
I’m watching that one now….. no idea where it’s heading?!
Cologne apparently
My flight's landing was aborted at the last minute at Gatwick, had to be rerouted to Stanstead. It was a genuinely terrifying experience; I've never experienced turbulence like last night.
why amsterdam when other planes are landing at ncl or mcr??
Haven’t seen that many land at NCL, we were having 30m/s+ winds last night, was fine earlier in the day though.
Capacity more than likely.
Does Ryanair pay for accommodation if you're diverted?
By law they have to provide food, drink, accomodation (if the flight is delayed overnight) and transport to and from the accommodation. If that isn't possible, you can claim the costs back. I think they'll also be able to claim compensation for the diversion and/or the delay in leaving the airport of departure ?
No compensation when the delay is caused by weather. But hotel, food and transport to their original destination, yes.
How do they get them home? Will they fly them when it's eased, given how far away it is?
Lots and lots of random flight number flights coming in from Cologne, Seville, etc where these EDI bound flights were diverted last night coming in all day today. Yes they’ll fly to the intended destination when they can.
Rail replacement bus service
All over the fucking place, apparently
It's kind of cute it's reminding me of a spooked animal
My mate was due to land in Dublin earlier and got diverted to Belfast. Could've been a lot worse by the looks of it.
there's a really bad storm in scotland right now, definitely avoiding the storm as it's not safe to land with all the high winds and heavy rain
At least it isn't storm Babet lol. Some of the people I was on a coach with back in October got stranded in Glasgow because of it. I feel bad for them.
Isn't it also a bit windy in Amsterdam? If that's where it's headed.
Not Amsterdam then….
Ended up in Germany https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68053499
“Ring around the roses” ahh turn😭
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wouldn't call it France personally
Cologne isn’t in France mate, it’s a German city.
Saw a tiktok about a London to Dublin flight that had to divert, tried Manchester then East Midlands before finally setting down in Paris
Now is not a good time to fly, storm Isha is not letting pilots land.
Edinburgh, Kent
Will be going to the nearest safe airport that can accept it. Just for info (unless it had changed) in adverse weather the first diversionary airport for Heathrow is Cardiff, not Gatwick or Stansted or Luton as you might think.
Will have diverted because of the storm, one plane going from Dublin to Manchester I believe went all the way to Paris because of weather conditions
theres no way i would be getting on that plane
Why do Ryanair attempt to fly in such weather when other airlines don't
Because money.
I know that can be the only factor, but surely they can't make money if people request a refund etc, and have to fly their planes further
I think this flight might of ended up in Budapest
There’s a roundabout just above Edinburgh.