Originally Posted by
dbm44
"This diverting to NCL has happened a few times on ABZ flights"
Really could have fooled me, you would think they had never seen a diversion before. What an utter shambles at NCL.
Ground staff did not have a clue. They provided only one bus for a full 737 and then resorted to asking taxi drivers dropping off at the airport if they would go to Aberdeen. Young kids were left shivering outside waiting for hours after aircraft had landed.
Captain did not explain why diversion was to NCL and not EDI or GLA.
EDI looked pretty foggy, although open when we eventually drove past 5 hours later, so perhaps that was reason for NCL choice. I would suggest in any future diversion that it would be good for Captain to explain why the chosen diversion airport is so far away.
I’m guessing you were on this flight?
That does not sound like a nice experience at all, especially considering the flight times were awful enough already.
I actually thought they might have put all of you up in a hotel (or perhaps even left you at NCL - which obviously wouldn’t have been good either), and flew you back up in the aircraft in the morning.
EDI was certainly open (and I assume a 737 crew base? Correct me if I’m wrong) as the TUI DLM-EDI landed shortly after the ABZ divert. I was concerned the EDI flight may have been diverted too as I was flying on the early EDI-CFU on Friday. The ABZ delay ended up delaying the outbound GLA so our cruise ship was held up for over three hours. The weather in the Edinburgh area was glorious on Thursday and no signs of fog when we were headed to the airport on Friday morning.