Originally Posted by
asdf1234
Website states technical inspection required. It does seem strange that an aircraft just departed from SEN diverts to STN rather than return to its base engineering team.
One problem is that so many airport and airline websites state that aircraft have ‘departed’ when all that means is they have left the stand. EZY OTP (on time performance) is based on when they push back from
Stand.
Always thought this was misleading as someone, not unreasonably, thinks the flight they are waiting for will be landing at the destination in xx minutes but it could well be still on ground at departure airport waiting for a slot time. Today the A320 did push back and then returned to stand but as Expessflight stated, even at that stage it was planned to go to Stansted.