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BHX2FRA
Not ground handling. I boarded a plane to Crete well in time for the scheduled departure at 1430. The captain then informed passengers that southbound flights from Birmingham were suspended due to adverse weather causing ATC delays in the south. Flights started to leave around 1545 but with a long queue - we were 17th in the queue at one point - we did not get away until around 1610. Flightstats shows delays to almost every flight around that time. Captain also suggested there had been some inbound diversions that were originally heading for Manchester.
Thanks for the info. I suspected it had to be weather. However, if Swissport had bothered to send a tug in time for the LH953 then the 955 could have got out of BHX at its scheduled time of 13:30.