It would be great if we could just drop this tedious debate about diversions or no diversions.
Disagree. Discussions about airport operations are just as interesting as new route news which, for good reason have dominated recently.
It is that time of year and one of these days or nights it really is going to hit the fan regarding diversions. The defensive policy enforced by MAG is less about short term gate availability and more about penny pinching on the human resources that could make better use of capacity. Silly DfT rules on the off-loading passengers and last minute attempts to co-ordinate disparate fragmented and underfunded handling agents are the makings of a ready made farce every time. It is a topic done to death on here because the situation does not appear to be any better organised from one year to the next.