What's going on today (27/07) with BA?

vliegtuigfreak · Post by **vliegtuigfreak** » 27 Jul 2005, 15:51

If you look on the biac site, you will see that the flights this afternoon of British Airways to London LHR are delayed.

What could be the reason?

Greetingzz
Sonny

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 27 Jul 2005, 18:12

Not only BA but a lot of airlines operating to/from LHR are having problems today.

I don't know what exactly the problem is, but BA announced runway restrictions as the reason for several flight cancellations and delays.

The weather wasn't good at LHR today, but not bad enough to cause problems in my opinion.

If anybody has more info on the reason why the usage of runways was restricted today, I'd appreciate it!

Captain · Post by **Captain** » 27 Jul 2005, 21:25

I am in London at the moment and can confirm that the weather has been particularly bad. Visibility was also poor and foggy in the morning.

Don't know if this may have slowed things down in the morning and affected flights for the remainder of the day.

Post by **luchtzak** » 27 Jul 2005, 21:57

As all aircrafts are faced with delays because of the foggy conditions (holdings, ATC slots, diversions) these delays pile up throughout the day and are difficult to catch up. The big lakes around London Heathrow are the big cause of these foggy mornings.

Captain · Post by **Captain** » 28 Jul 2005, 00:32

I flew on BMI to BRU from LHR on a foggy day.

I took an evening flight so we were delayed by at least 90 minutes. Once on-board the captain was very informative and told us even though planes like the A321 can easily fly in and out of aiports during foggy conditions, there are other security requirements in place by ATC.

They need to be able to visually double-check what they see on the ground radar to avoid any potential taxiing colisions. This may take a few extra minutes but as luchtzak said it all add's up.

Captain

Bowlie · Post by **Bowlie** » 28 Jul 2005, 05:40

I travelled via LHR from Geneva to Vancouver today (yesterday). The 1500 flight GVA-LHR was cancelled, but as I checked in early they put me on the 1335 - which actually departed GVA at 1510. The Captain said that the delay was due to one runway at LHR being closed in the morning. The Vancouver flight was also delayed, about an hour - but we made that up and arrived on time.

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 28 Jul 2005, 08:39

Guys,

the actual reason for all of these delays yesterday at LHR was due to one runway being closed. During the night they had done some maintenance of the runway, but it had rained on the new surface that had been layed rendering it useless to use.............

but for today 28/7 fog and low viz is causing 60min+ delays

T

JM · Post by JM » 02 Aug 2005, 16:00

and if you're wondering why all LHR flights were delayed on thu 28& fri 29/07, here's the explenation.
In the morning, a message had arrived at the FedPol offices that there was a possible bomb threat! Eurostar (Waterloo st.), BA and BD were at risk that day on LHR routes. Extra security was put at C/I rows, border control became more strictly, all unattended luggage was reported,... Panic was created at first, but after a while everything settled down a bit. Even the lounges had recieved regular visit of the police 8O

I was amazed that nothing came on the news that day, coasing panic seems to be the hype nowadays...

Greetings,
JM

regi · Post by **regi** » 06 Aug 2005, 22:35

a rabbit on the runway maybe?

Airbus320redcap · Post by **Airbus320redcap** » 07 Aug 2005, 00:36

All flights had heavy slots due weather at destination

Confirmed!