Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
Instead of forcing LH to Oakland, I’m sure a small delay for a few arrivals into SFO to accomodate them would not have been a great impost.
If I was LH, I would have just declared Mayday Fuel and landed at SFO.
This was not a Mayday situation and was managed in spite of the aggro to not become one.
The post flight report on this will be problematic enough for management of LH and for the SATCO, engineering a Mayday would not be received with amusement.
After a 4 hour delay to start with on a long flight, and 2 hours to turn around to swim across the ditch from oaktown to SFO, ATC managed to increase threats, not reduce them. They should look inwards and reflect on what their task actually is, being a hazard to flight is not normally included, that is optional.