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Old 1st Nov 2021, 15:59
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DaveReidUK
 
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"EXS8HQ overhead the Lizard now, FR24 reckons it’s routing Alicante to Malaga. Clearly not taking the direct routing"

It's that time of year, again.

Changes from Summer to Winter schedules (which started yesterday), and vice versa, typically confuse the flight trackers because alphanumeric callsigns often change at that point.

What you saw (depending on whether it was going north or south) was probably LS129 GLA-FNC or LS130 FNC-GLA, using an alphanumeric that was previously assigned to an ALC-AGP flight.

Edit: Looks like that alphanumeric is actually used for LS174 FAO-GLA, and has been for the last few years, so I've no idea why FR24 has got confused.
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