what EK17, Dubai to Manchester is doing? It arrived in the Uk did a lot of holding, two attempts at Manchester and is now off to Europe, possibly Amsterdam but it’s very high compared to similar approaching aircraft
Well that might not be considered as armchair quarter backing but the language might be considered slightly loaded.......
I think the underlying grumble might be why single out any particular flight diverting on today of all days when there have been (I suspect, I have yet to count ) dozens of diversions.
Crews and ATC are working their socks off, and the reason for pretty much all of this is encapsulated in the TAFs and METARs for most airfields in north west Europe..