And I also think some posters on here have short memories. The weather on Saturday in the south was just awful so the crew elected to go to Birmingham where the wind was straight down the runway. GCI - BHX is hardly transatlantic for crying out loud. GCI - EXT or SOU is about 25-30 minutes airborne on a good day, with checklists to do etc it'll be about 40-45 minutes. In that time you've flown to BHX anyway.
It's nice to see the dispatcher from GCI on board is so knowledgeable about Q400 operations (not)
