Not a lot of activity on this thread since August.
Not a lot of activity at LCY today either. Went on the DLR past the fogbound ramp at 0745, it was completely empty. Came back at 1045, one lone F50 had got in, otherwise ghostly quiet. BA website was showing cancellations, but also a lot of early morning flights rescheduled to arrive around 1200.
We get to 1200, still foggy, and the East London air is filled with the sound from multiple go-arounds every few minutes ! Though I've just heard a prop aircraft actually make it in.
Now of course, such is life. But why does the LCY website just airbrush all the delay information off their arrivals page the moment scheduled arrival time is passed, or not give any diversion etc information ? I've written about this before, but it seems that whoever manages the flight information is desperate to show every future arrival (the full programme for the next 12 hours being all displayed), but never to show anything delayed, or even past its arrival time, that people are actually waiting for. Over in the Canary Wharf offices everyone is wondering what has happened to their visitors arriving for meetings, whic have been already delayed to wait for them. But there's absolutely no sign on the arrivals page of any of the morning flights any more. Does no-one at LCY realise this is just the time when many are turning to them for information on what's going on ? Is it really beyond physics to have somebody at such times updating the information properly ?
It's not just the website; the FIDS in the terminal suffer from the same desperation to clear current arrivals off the screen ASAP while showing forthcoming arrivals 6 or 8 hours ahead (sometimes even into the next day !). Actual arrivals are meanwhile zapped from the screens even before all the inbound pax have emerged into the terminal.