Originally Posted by
vintage ATCO
Yes, Neatax Aztec, used to arrive about 2300. Then, for some reason, it switched to Heathrow. However one night we noticed the usual trucks were waiting on stand 9 but we had no FPL. Quick call to London revealed it was bound for Heathrow. We got London to get him to call us and when we explained his trucks were waiting here (we did check!) he diverted into Luton. Customer service!
Now this almost touches on a subject I haven't seen mentioned previously....Shopping for diversions. The ideal situation. Heathrow and/or Gatwick in LVPs due to radiation fog but Luton on the hill sticking out in beautiful sunshine. Bovingdon hold clearly busy. We had the means to monitor the TMA frequencies for a while so it was easy to get a callsign of an aircraft in the hold. Next. Ring the TMA NW assistant and tell them that BAW*** had called us for the Luton weather but we didn't appear to be able to get two-way communications with him and could they help? The aim? To get the TMA controller to read the (probably CAVOK) Luton weather to the BNN stack. Blue touch paper lit..Stand by for interesting aeroplanes!