Just had a call from my son, in NY. He should have left last night but it was cancelled. He's got himself onto a non scheduled BA flight, that might leave this evening, heading for Prestwick. He thinks they are trying to get the aircraft, plus BA personnel, back to the UK. A check on Prestwick shows they have no flights at the moment, though Glasgow have had the arrival from the Carbean, plus a couple of other long hauls. That being the case it's hard to see that they can't operate the Glasgow IOM route. Manx2 say they can operate to Leeds by staying below 8000 ft and that should be OK for Glasgow to IOM, I would have thought.
Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:
Despite the ban on aircraft in the UK some operators have obviously decided that NATS was over cautious in their decision.I’ve seen several flights in and out of Dublin today, Manx2 are running their little LET on Blackpool and Belfast flights and TCX7l and TOM663 have just flown into Manchester.Oddly enough TOM663 was from Barbados but it appeared over Tiree and routing to Islay. That’s pretty well parallel to the ash cloud which is flowing from Iceland to Sumburgh and maybe just 150nm south. If they are letting aircraft get that close to the plume (which I guess they can clearly see) then why is all traffic in the south of the UK blocked? It’s weird.TCX7L also appeared on screen about Londonderry so that was another Caribbean flight that went well north. It puzzles me.bones _____bones@xxxxxxxx <mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>
