Think I know a wee bit. A BEE E145 positioned in from Paris in the late afternoon. It was told to stop approx 1/2 way down runway 12 where it would be pushed back onto the "T taxiway" ( in apostrophes because said taxiway is no longer available for aircraft movements under their own power). Sometime later the aircraft asked for start to reposition to a stand in order , I believe, to operate a flight to Manchester. This start had to be refused by ATC, under direction from airfield operations, because engine start was dangerous due to barriers and equipment that were behind the aircraft. In order to depart, the aircraft would need to be towed out onto 12/30 before starting engines. Approximately 10 minutes after this instruction was relayed by ATC a cancellation message came through for a flight to Manchester and the aircraft was not heard from again. Some confusion as to why the aircraft was placed on "T" in the first place but may have been due to the amount of GA traffic parked on the 30 threshold because of the Open Golf.
Hope this helps.
maybe not applicable in this case but it has been noticed that BEE ops or maybe servisair are struggling with various clerical tasks out of Edinburgh at the moment. If you are BEE crew and have a problem you would like to discuss unofficially please feel free to pm me.
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