Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
Why go to JFK? Surely there would have been some chat between aircraft and ground as to what to do? Whoever would have to be looking after the passengers in JFK would surely have known that there was zero hotel accommodation and that going back to Florida would have been far better idea than dumping several hundred men women children and babies into a terminal building late at night with nothing to look after them. It might be a convenient place to get the brakes fixed, but surely that can't be the only consideration.
Aircraft is patently not going to be a quick fix - might be a good idea to go somewhere where there plenty of options of getting several hundred people to the U.K. on BA or other carriers’ aircraft the next morning....think of a major eastern seaboard airport with multiple multiple daily transatlantic departures.......
I gather the press reports don’t paint a complete story of what happened on the ground...
No idea about the resolution of the technical issue.