Any info on an easyJet flight working the Palma freq 119.15 last night, that "needed" to divert to Alicante?
The a/c requested to divert to ALC.
When questioned by the controller, the reply was "for commercial reasons".
The controller a bit confused (and so say say all of us!) asked again for the reason for the diversion and the reply again was "for commercial reasons".
The controller then asked if a flight plan had been submitted for the flight to ALC. So the crew then said it was for "technical reasons", they were now leveling off at FL120 and they were proceeding to ALC (i.e. no longer they were requesting it, but doing it!) So, the controller asked what kind of technical problem they were having. So back to the old tune, and it was again "commercial reasons".
We changed freq to BCL and didn't get to know the rest.
Very strange...is it not?
And I heard people say Spanish controllers are not very good!!!
