How tight is your slot?
 

Hi all,

Just out of curiosity, would anyone be able to shed some light on the slot issues at EGCC and EHAM? For whatever reason, the last few days have been a nightmare with regard to getting dep slots out of CC for the shuttle accross the North Sea.

Just one example, the very first flight of the day yesterday morning from CC to Schiphol was about an hour late due to this problem, even though the aircraft had been parked on the tarmac all night. Is Mother Nature causing havoc at the moment down in the lowlands?

There's nothing like Biz Pax who have onward connections.

Cheers,

HS

For this morning :

FMD INFORMATION MESSAGE
=======================
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SUBJECT: HIGH DELAY
.
OPERATORS AND ATC UNITS ARE ADVISED THAT THERE ARE MAJOR DELAYS
IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ARRIVALS AT EHAM
.
DELAYS ARE CAUSED BY WEATHER (LOW VISIBILITY). DELAYS ARE FOR
MANY FLIGHTS EXCEEDING 50 MINS.
.
FMD STAFF ARE CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING THE SITUATION AND WILL
ADVISE OF ANY POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS.
IN THE MEANTIME OPERATORS ARE STRONGLY REQUESTED NOT TO TELEPHONE
FMD HELPDESK ABOUT DELAYS WHICH ARE TYPICAL/AVERAGE.
.
FMD BRUSSELS.

It's been the same for the last few days sadly :(

Here's a link to a CFMU web page that details flow restrictions and such like as above.

From the link you may have to click "AIM" at the top left to bring up the latest list of info.

WF.

Sorry, subject confusion! :\

Agreed. Unfulfilled purient interests. :*

Niteflite,

Cheers for the info. I thought it would have something to do with the other end, as all the other flights seemed to be having no issues, and were even getting early airborne slots. Lets hope the situation improves soon.

Sorry to the others for any confusion/offence; the attempt at a funny subject title failing somewhat.

HS

Never judge a thread by it's title ;)

And not even one mention of Virgin ;)

yeah ...
 

admittedly, I am also one of those poor guys who opened the thread and left it with a kind of disappointed look ... ;-)