Originally Posted by
The Ancient Geek
Many moons ago I was expecting to land at LHR after a long flight from JNB when the Nigel announced that LHR and LGW were both fogged in and he was diverting to London Prestwick (yes,thats what he called it). Hang around for 2 hours while they rounded up enough buses for a 743 load of people then 7 hours by road.
Some rather unpleasant scenes from the disgruntled masses and definitely not good
PR for BA.
I expect that in those days, BA still had some staff who could remember the outcome of an attempt to land at LHR below limits.
