Luton-9

[Dannyboy39]

Originally Posted by KelvinD

And W61001 HA-LYV) probably getting very dizzy by now, looking at the number of circuits they have done to the north of Luton! Wizz 184B seems possibly heading to LHR Edit: Looks like it may well be Gatwick. BBC Weather shows hevy snow at Stansted

I was looking at this earlier - it must've done 15-20 circuits over North Herts! I did think at the time, they must have been very low on fuel.

[LTNman]

Three of the aircraft that landed just before the 7:30 closure are trapped on Taxiway Alpha 3 hours after landing. As far as I am aware the passengers are still on board.

Not sure if this is because of a lack of stands as the first wave of easyjet did not depart so the first 2 landing aircraft made it to the vacated Wizz stands only.

[compton3bravo]

Turned out nice again!

[daz211]

Same happening at Stansted read on Twitter people are stuck on taxiways from early arriving flights and being told it’s unsafe to get busses to them sounds strange not saying anything against Luton as I’m not familiar with operations but Stansted normally deals quite well with snow going by past years

[LTNman]

I would say I good 6 inches of snow has landed at Luton.

[planedrive]

Looks like easyJet have cancelled all departures until 1625 local. More snow forecast for the rest of the day and tomorrow morning.

[LTNman]

Some of those Wizz passengers are being deplanned now. Might be even more planes parked up on Taxiway Alpha than I first thought.

[AirportPlanner1]

Irrespective of what's going on at LTN and STN today, there are problems at some of the destinations as well e.g. AMS and GVA have both had closures today

[boeing_eng]

TUI's ACE departure got away after a four hour delay and nearly 2000 litres of de-icing fluid!

Pretty severe conditions this morning.....Arriving Wizz aircraft that were trapped on taxiways were getting told by their handling agent that steps were unsafe to use and it was the airports responsibly to clear them!

[ericlday]

4 more Wizz have waved goodbye to LTN on their diversion to Doncaster !!

[planedrive]

Luton still full so can't accept any more a/c until some leave, hence the recent diversions.

[ericlday]

Easy cancellations have clogged up the system then !!!!

[LTNman]

You got it with Taxiway Alpha being used as stands for the Wizz arrivals.

[ericlday]

If FR24 is to be believed there are 5 parked on Bravo Taxiway currently !!

[LTNman]

Lucky it has been extended. The aircraft are all running engines and are not shut down.

[Buster the Bear]

Good to see that the Multi Storey still stands after the weight of the snow.

Back 'in the day', there were plenty of firemen, baggage and security to help clear an airport handling significantly less movements. The 'low cost era' must be a challenge to get enough staff in to mount an attack on the snow?

[AvGeek1]

Luton Statistics Jan-Nov 2017

Amsterdam - 714,135
Budapest - 532,315
Bucharest - 519,026
Barcelona - 468,476
Warsaw - 408,733
Tel Aviv - 381,810
Dublin - 328,642
Malaga - 318,724
Faro - 311,595
Belfast - 309,468
Cluj-Napoca - 301,714
Katowice - 289,478
Palma de Mallorca - 283,867
Edinburgh - 282,061
Gdansk - 276,239
Sofia - 265,277
Paris - 262,511
Geneva - 257,256
Copenhagen - 255,842
Alicante - 250,360

Source: LLA

[compton3bravo]

Looks like BlueAir have been pulling out all the stops to keep the show on the road.

[LTNman]

The issue right into last night was a lack of available stands not helped by the extreme time it was taking to de-ice easyjet aircraft once they started to operate again. The initial wait was over 6 hours for a stand but even late into the evening it was still around 2 hours.

Many aircraft were diverted away from Luton due to a lack of places to hold the aircraft once they had landed.

Apparently the terminal was hell on Earth.

[LTNman]

I think there will be lots of posts later today and it won't be about the weather.