AA55 low fuel stop at goose bay AFB
well we had a little but somewhat inconvenient adventure yesterday. was on the AA055 MAN-ORD and at the checkin staff were handing out letters advising that due to "strong winds" we would be making a stop in Newfoundland, Canada.
this we duly did, and after about 40 minutes on the ground we were on our way again to chicago, with the whole trip having taken about 10.5 hours.
we then had to wait 75 minutes in the immigration line as well, but that's another story.
the staff at AA didn't seem to think this was out of the ordinary, but then they do only operate a B757 on that route. I would say seats were about 85% full. Is that normally a good reason for such an epic diversion ? Would a 767 also not have enough fuel to make the trip? Or are they overloading us weight wise ?