Originally Posted by
RogueOne
The majority of the delays were down to a lack of Swissport staff available, they were doing one plane at a time and prioritising everyone but BEE.. The inbound EDI sat on the ground for 2hrs.. before a dispatcher even acknowledged them & the inbound bags could be offloaded, and the outbound bags for the ABZ loaded on. Worst I've ever seen from Swissport, they've been having a bad time lately.
Thank you for all the replies and needless to say it carried on throughout the week but today even more delays and cancellations.
12 sectors gone today (around 17%) already on a much reduced schedule (6 yesterday) one four hour delay and now two with two hours plus delays as one has changed to cancelled (LRH plus BES & EGC now) and none have gone within 15 minutes until the Knock at 10.15.
I assume there isn't a viable short-term fix without making permanent route cancellations and that won't come until late summer.
There seems to be a strategy at BHX, cancelling the domestic routes without competition and train is an alternative, BHD comes off lightly not wanting to hand pax over to easyjet and if a European route gets cancelled it is usually one of the Amsterdam flights (5 a day) or Berlin (no competition).
Pete