Originally Posted by
crewmeal
So what are the diversion options at LHR knowing that every aircraft these days has to go into a hold pattern before arrival? STN? LGW? BHX?
As others have said timing is everything. Over the last two hours 1400-1600GMT only 20 out of 70 arrivals have been in any form of holding pattern, none of those involved more than a quick 360 degree spin around the holding point - nothing even elongated to the usual racetrack.
My last few diversions from LHR due to fog when returning from down under have been into Manchester, Paris and Frankfurt.