Bristol-5

[The Ancient Geek]

Ooops - a tyop.
KLM1057, RYR86YB and TUI245 currently circling over head so it looks like they could be opening soon.

[paperHanger]

Surely the reason for this departure from the tarmac is obvious?

The new generation of pilots is very good at following a magenta line ... but not a yellow one

[Bristol_Traveller]

KL1057 was the first aircraft to land, just after 00:00 on Saturday morning.

It'll be a tough recovery over the weekend particularly for Easyjet, who must have aircraft and crew all over the place, and a huge number of displaced passengers.

[The Ancient Geek]

KLM1057 landed just before midnight with RYR86YB close behind and RYR88GE a few miles out.

[Falcon666]

Several EasyJet's are repositioning as I write from BHX so delays tomorrow might not be as bad as you think

[Pitchpoller]

the airfield being owned by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan does not suggest there is a competent management in place to organise things for an event like this.

They could at least invest in some Canadianly polite signage, such as: "Please keep off the grass, eh".

[oceancrosser]

Any ERJ145s in this position should be removed by a bulldozer. Awful things to fly in...

[Bristol_Traveller]

There seems to be a flotilla of EZY aircraft moving in at the moment from EXT / STN / BHX, plus EDI arrived in late. I think I've counted 11 in, and it looks like they need 13 off tomorrow morning. It looks like there might be three frames at BOH (OE-IJG, G-EZBU, G-EZUK).

Still a lot of displaced pax from Friday to deal with today though.

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

That was no taxi incident after landing.

WWW

[crewmeal]

I've said it time and time again BRS should have been at Filton not the farm where it is now.

[fireflybob]

While we are on the subject of accuracy, the code CFW does not exist

Not in IATA code but it's actually Cardiff Train Station so fairly close!

[Harry Wayfarers]

Any pics of the offending Embraer Pocket Rocket?

[hoss183]

Originally Posted by crewmeal

I've said it time and time again BRS should have been at Filton not the farm where it is now.

With you on that, a ridiculous state of affairs developing an airport on a foggy hill thats hard to get to by road, when a longer runway was up for grabs next to the M4/M5 interchange.

[Heathrow Harry]

But much more convenient for the builders of shops and houses and Business Parks -

Filton also would have had noise issues

[Heathrow Harry]

Bristol Airport ✔ @BristolAirport Following the earlier incident, the aircraft has now been moved and the airport is now open and fully operational. We are working with the airlines to resume the flight schedule as soon as possible but ongoing knock-on delays to flights may be experienced over the weekend.

11:47 pm 22nd Dec

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/arr...res/departures

Shows steady stream of departures with few cancellations

[TheOddOne]

With you on that, a ridiculous state of affairs developing an airport on a foggy hill thats hard to get to by road, when a longer runway was up for grabs next to the M4/M5 interchange.

Agreed. I've been told that the reason that Filton wasn't selected was because there was a corner of a hangar that would have infringed the ILS and the owners refused to knock it down - something to do with the Brabazon having been built in it. Just one of any number of scandals that should have been sorted out by a forward-looking government, which was lacking at the time. Now it's too late, so we have to work with what we've got. Similar to the vacillation over expansion at London Airport.

[manrow]

Originally Posted by hoss183

With you on that, a ridiculous state of affairs developing an airport on a foggy hill that's hard to get to by road, when a longer runway was up for grabs next to the M4/M5 interchange.

I agree, it also has a rail line running through, but you need to blame the residents of Chipping Sodbury who waged a vigorous campaign years ago, to prevent Filton obtaining planning permission for change of use to a civil airport. They knew the airport was there when they bought their houses etc. etc.

[Heathrow Harry]

Yeah but it wasn't going to be a major domestic airport - it was a company facility....

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/...-runway-2.html

post 29 shows it well off the tarmac and dug in......

[ExXB]

It’s about time the CAA began enforcing the “rerouting and care” provisions of Regulation 261. Passengers need a lot more than an offer of a refund when this type of shit happens. It’s a cost of doing business, if you don’t like it just go and invest in bitcoin, or something equally safe.

Shambles, nothing but a shambles.