Birmingham: Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

[andrew.clarkson]

So are Birmingham airports weather facilities better than Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester or the same.

 

[gulftraveller]

The same.

 

[HPsauce]

Many cancellations today due to the stormy winds. Expect more fun & games as the day progresses. Crosswinds not helping at BHX either.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Did the C207 operate the flight to Dusseldorf EW9330 this morning?

 

[BhxJack]

No

 

[Matt995]

todays diversion (so far!):-

Sunday, Jan 26
10:45	U22774	Paris (CDG)	easyJet	A320 (G-EZGX)	BRS Diversion
11:15	U22974	Innsbruck (INN)	easyJet	A20N (G-UZLK)	BRS Diversion
11:50	U26623	Birmingham (BHX)	easyJet	A320 (G-EZRT)	JER Diversion
12:30	U22714	Malaga (AGP)	easyJet	A20N (G-UZHD)	BRS Diversion
12:45	U22710	Palma de Mallorca (PMI)	easyJet	A320 (G-EZUK)	BRS Diversion
12:55	BY6737	Toulouse (TLS)	TUI	B738 (G-TAWP)	BRS Diversion
13:15	U22872	Faro (FAO)	easyJet (A321 NEO Livery)	A21N (G-UZMA)	BRS Diversion
14:10	U22972	Agadir (AGA)	easyJet	A20N (G-UZLS)	BRS Diversion

 

[Matt995]

Turkish 737 Max 9, appears to have gone tech Sunday morning, outbound Istanbul cancelled, and aircraft is night stopping BHX

TUI 788 G-TUII is running over 24 hours late from Montego Bay, due in Sunday morning, now expected Monday, due to the outbound Saturday morning flight diverting to Manchester, after 5 hours in the air, presumably another tech issue, maybe connected to the electronic navigation issues it had a few days ago? Aircraft re-departed Manchester Sunday morning.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Turkish 737 Max 9, appears to have gone tech Sunday morning, outbound Istanbul cancelled, and aircraft is night stopping BHX

TUI 788 G-TUII is running over 24 hours late from Montego Bay, due in Sunday morning, now expected Monday, due to the outbound Saturday morning flight diverting to Manchester, after 5 hours in the air, presumably another tech issue, maybe connected to the electronic navigation issues it had a few days ago? Aircraft re-departed Manchester Sunday morning.

Tk Max9 did a go around this morning so I wonder if it has anything to do with that

 

[rollo]

TUI positioned in a 788 on Sunday morning from Gatwick which then operated to Cancun presumably replacing the poorly 788 diverted to MAN so avoiding further pain all round.

 

[Matt995]

Turkish 737 Max 9, appears to have gone tech Sunday morning, outbound Istanbul cancelled, and aircraft is night stopping BHX

TUI 788 G-TUII is running over 24 hours late from Montego Bay, due in Sunday morning, now expected Monday, due to the outbound Saturday morning flight diverting to Manchester, after 5 hours in the air, presumably another tech issue, maybe connected to the electronic navigation issues it had a few days ago? Aircraft re-departed Manchester Sunday morning.

TUI G-TUII has finally departed Montego Bay on TOM855, a staggering 50 hours late, due in to Brum around 08:15 Tuesday morning!! 😱

 

[Ianbutty]

TUI G-TUII has finally departed Montego Bay on TOM855, a staggering 50 hours late, due in to Brum around 08:15 Tuesday morning!! 😱

An extra two days in Jamaica! I hope the passengers were put up in a decent hotel. Shocking though.

 

[Nethercote2019]

Turkish this morning cancelled again due to Snow in Istanbul

 

[Westland Wessex HC2]

FR504 (Ryanair) B738 EI-EMA DUB - BRS Diverted in Earlier

FR6220 (Buzz Air) B38M SP-RZE KRK - BRS Just Diverting in

AF1164 A320 CDG to BHX doing a go around so must be windy at Brum currently

 

[Westland Wessex HC2]

LS1864 JET2 G-JZBM B738 LPA-BRS
U2220 Easyjet G-EZWS A320 EDI-BRS
U22936 EasyJet G-UZHY A20N PRG-BRS
U22888 Easyjet G-EZPB A320 GVA-BRS

All diverted in at the last hour, not sure what's happened at Bristol, some didn't even attempt landing at Bristol first, just came straight to BHX, METAR Weather looks fine

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there all, with the Heathrow airport announcement, are we expecting Birmingham airport to be extremely busy today or normal.

 

[Ray Finkle]

BA 789 G-ZBKL operating HKG-LHR diverted in.

 

[RichL]

Hi there all, with the Heathrow airport announcement, are we expecting Birmingham airport to be extremely busy today or normal.

Everything seems to have gone to Glasgow, Gatwick or Manchester with the exception of the Hong Kong flight mentioned above me.

Other flights have diverted into random (for them) airports en route or back to their departure airports according to FR24.

Ultimately up to the Captain to decide where to divert on grounds of safety however I suspect it’s in the ‘staff manual’ to at least try to land (where possible) at an airport with that airlines existing presence where practicable.

I wouldn’t hold your breath for Birmingham to suddenly become like Heathrow arrivals 🤣

 

[juliet-fox-9]

Parking space must also be an issue, at first almost all the diverts were going to LGW, but then LGW stopped receiving them.

Our parking space must have been limited - today, a lot of our based aircraft were having a bit of a lie-in, with Jet2, and easyJet having departures scheduled well past 0900. I doubt many of the Heathrow flights could have held over BHX for an extra 2-3 hours while waiting for our aircraft stands to become freed up.

Then, there would have been the issue of where our based aircraft could park when they returned in the afternoon. I saw a pilot say online that airlines want to avoid a “Hotel California” situation, where they can “check in to an airport, but never leave”.

If we became filled up with Heathrow diversions then we would have a lot of frustrated Brummies stuck abroad!

 

[mullion]

There are a few of the diverted planes that went to Europe now coming into UK ie THA to BHX and ETH A350-1000 to Manchester now that the rush of widebodies have gone

 

[RichL]

THA to BHX

Passengers I assume? Rather them in the UK rather than on the Continent?

The cynic in me says it would cost them more to put them in a hotel in Brussels than shove them onto X number of buses to take them 'dahnn safff'