Windy weather causes flight chaos
Did anyone else find getting in to LHR a piece of easy yesterday? We pitched up with 2 hrs holding and PIK fuel only to do a 270 at OCK and into the pattern. The runway was white but wet and we still made the usual turn-off without max autobrakes. Explaining 30t to the gingerbeers was a tad embarrassing.
When I later flew home down the back we de-iced and had a head-count faff but still pushed only 1 hr late (cheers bmi). Meanwhile T1 was full of cancelled BA pax, hur hur. Old Louis Walsh's crowd must have done some pre-emptive damage control and just cancelled everything they could see on the plot.
Now, I admit I had been girding my loins ready to do some of that run away bravely stuff, but I just felt the met men were covering their @rses a tad and everyone bit, especially the schools. All those shots of kids sledging..you could see the grass fer gawds sake. Certainly the TV and the Times made it seem like the second coming, unless you live in Scotland where it was "Snow? I'll show ye snow, pal!".
Rant over, back to the bar...
When I later flew home down the back we de-iced and had a head-count faff but still pushed only 1 hr late (cheers bmi). Meanwhile T1 was full of cancelled BA pax, hur hur. Old Louis Walsh's crowd must have done some pre-emptive damage control and just cancelled everything they could see on the plot.
Now, I admit I had been girding my loins ready to do some of that run away bravely stuff, but I just felt the met men were covering their @rses a tad and everyone bit, especially the schools. All those shots of kids sledging..you could see the grass fer gawds sake. Certainly the TV and the Times made it seem like the second coming, unless you live in Scotland where it was "Snow? I'll show ye snow, pal!".
Rant over, back to the bar...
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The Media and the TV weather folks did seem to make the impending weather sound like second only to a meteor strike but I suppose they're damned if they do and if they don't.
