Originally Posted by
EPIRB
What happened this morning with Hainan landing on 34 and vacating at Charlie? The wind was up to a thirty knot northerly and at least four aircraft waiting to take off. Virgin ended up being sent around. No fire trucks or anything. No doubt this slowed everything up. Not sure why he didn't take Echo. Anyone know?
There was no advice from the crew that they would need to roll through and no explanation as to why they did roll through to Charlie. We were fairly surprised given the wind conditions that it occurred.
Attempts were made to get them to vacate via the crossing runway after missing Echo but to no avail.
There may be a response from a company with reasons for an occurrence but not always and I'd say we'll probably never know in this case.