Originally Posted by
Mikehotel152
This thread has gone a bit astray.
Guilty! So has certain types of communication with and control of pax in airports and aircraft!
The fact is that this was New Year's Day
So what? This is aviation. I came into STN on New Year's afternoon. It was a breeze! Are New Year's Day's elsewhere written off as bad days?
... the aircraft had a slot outbound from STN and arrived to a remote stand in AGP where no buses were available.
Shouldn't have happened.
The crew made PAs to the passengers at all stages.
Anybody who has piloted commercial aircraft around Europe will know that at busy times ATC slot delays are the rule, not the exception. A 1 hour delay is not unusual.
The lions share of EU-EU flights of 150+ pax loads are FR. A 1 hour delay is not unusual at the end of the day, but destinations know it so should be covering it. My rental car is
always ready with a smile the moment I pick it up after a long delay. They have my flight number, and if they have nothing else, but we'd hope they do, they have FR24 on their smartphones. They find other things to do until I arrive. It's called planning.
This is simply a case of a distressed pax doing something silly.
This is simply a case of p!ss poor planning distressing the pax.