OO-DJF stuck in THF with parking brake failure

[euroflyer]

OO-DJF is stuck in THF with a failure of the parking breaks. Pilot could not release the parking breaks. After 40 min waiting pax have been unloaded and now waiting for further info. Rumours are plane has to stay here in THF, next flight at 19h00 is fully booked, an extra plane will be sent to THF and leave back to BRU at around 21h30.
Pax are quite 'unamused', especially as the organisation is a bit chaotic

[ciaran]

OO-DJF is stuck in THF with a failure of the parking breaks. Pilot could not release the parking breaks. After 40 min waiting pax have been unloaded and now waiting for further info. Rumours are plane has to stay here in THF, next flight at 19h00 is fully booked, an extra plane will be sent to THF and leave back to BRU at around 21h30.
Pax are quite 'unamused', especially as the organisation is a bit chaotic

Hopefully there will be no problems tomorow because i'm going to THF.

Grtz
Ciaran

[euroflyer]

Well it looks now like the plane which usually stays at THF over night will bring the pax of OO-DJF to BRU tonight (departure is now scheduled for 21h35 for SN 2586 as it should have been 16h55). So tomorrow morning a plane will be missing in THF for the first flight out to BRU unless they can repair OO-DJF until than over night. At the moment I can see the plane however and nobody is doing anything on it, so I do not know ...

If that will have any following problems for later tomorrow, I don't know but would not expect it to be too likely. They should have enough time to prepare for it

But I have to say management of the situation here in THF was not too convincing . There were obviously 4 places left on the following SN2588, which is about to leave right now. These were given to some pax of SN2586 but not in a very transparent way (The ones who claimed to have onward flights tonight (which would be ok) and the ones who claimed to be MEPs (?!) got the 4 seats. I have seen similar situations at LH and they very strictly followed a list with status of pax (gold, silver, booking classes etc.). Here it was just shouting and desinformation. But not to blame the staff, they just had no information, one was still asking everybody to stay at the gate, while others already accepted re-bookings at the check-in desks from those who ran first, the people at the ticket desk did something else , so obviously no clear procedures of what to do in this case.

Anyway, so a nice evening with a 10 Euro voucher of bru.air at THF Airport is ahead of me

[Bruspotter]

Hello

OO-DJF is stuck in THF with a failure of the parking breaks. Pilot could not release the parking breaks.

Now that's a quite idiotic way to be stucked somewhere.
Even more idiotic than a stuck 'throttle lever'.


Best regards: Yannick

[euroflyer]

Hello

OO-DJF is stuck in THF with a failure of the parking breaks. Pilot could not release the parking breaks.

Now that's a quite idiotic way to be stucked somewhere.
Even more idiotic than a stuck 'throttle lever'.


Best regards: Yannick

Thank you for your sympathy

20h45 now, still nobody working on OO-DJF to release that damn break , therefore is the incoming a/c from BRU which hopefully takes us back home 20 min delayed so arrival at BRU will probably be after 23h00 now. However have just seen on BRU Airport website SN from Madrid is tonight delayed until 02h00, that is even worse and so we are the lucky ones 8) (There have to be something positive in everything )

[744rules]

20h45 now, still nobody working on OO-DJF to release that damn break


It's not because you cannot see anybody around the a/c that nothing is happening. It could well be they are waiting for qualified engineers (why not on the next inbound flt) or spare parts.

[airbuske]

However have just seen on BRU Airport website SN from Madrid is tonight delayed until 02h00

Flying from/to Madrid is sometimes a hell

With louzy Iberia handling and groundstaff.
But that's Spain, No te preocupes

So it could be worse

[euroflyer]

20h45 now, still nobody working on OO-DJF to release that damn break


It's not because you cannot see anybody around the a/c that nothing is happening. It could well be they are waiting for qualified engineers (why not on the next inbound flt) or spare parts.

I did not mean to say nothing was happening at all, but I was indeed surprised to see that even later

after the failure had been detected and - acoording to the pilot - reported to Brussels for the first time at around 16h50 after boarding was completed

and after the next inbound flight had arrived at THF from BRU at around 18h40 (ok, that might have been too fast as it probably left BRU at around 17h15; but still, if everybody would have worked perfect it should have been a possibility to bring in a qualified technicían)

and after the next but one inbound flight from BRU had landed at around 21h00 (the one which normally stays in THF over night and which now brought us back to BRU (OO-DWD) arrving here at 23h25

still nobody was working at the a/c when we left THF at around 22h00. And the a/c was parked just in front of the gate (as it could not move anymore 8) ), so we would have seen if anything was happening or not.

As I said earlier, I have seen similar situations (so not a parking break ) at LH and other airlines; and they usually had some technicians working on the a/c within less than one hour, even if it was not their main hub airport, and least trying to find out which part exactly had to be replaced ...
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[euroflyer]

What make things worse now is the following: I have learned today from a person I spoke to last night in Berlin and met again by chance today in Brussels, she managed to get on the 19h00 flight by claiming one of the few free places on this flight. Nothing against her, but she was booked in b.light and has no status with bru.air

There were about 60 pax booked on the original flight, probably some 20 or so in b.flex (actually a surprisingly high number) and quite a number of them Platinum and Gold status (I think I can say this because I saw they were like me able to enter the Lounge for free). Most of them (actually I would say all 8) ) asked for the possibility to change to the 19h00 flight. And what happens?? B.light pax who just happened to stand the closest to the ticket desk at the moment when it became clear how many places really were available on that flight get the places

Do not get me wrong: nothing against b.light or economy pax (very often I am one myself ), but what for do you book and pay b.flex and what for are the Platinum and Gold status things if not for situations like this??? And the bru.air staff at THF just did not care

I am afraid this will be a reason for a very serious complaint at bru.air from my side

[FlightMate]

maybe they said at the ticketing office:

"Oh, you're b.light, and your flight is cancelled? Too bad, you have to buy another ticket"

And that's what they did...

Just kidding of course

[fcw]

There were about 60 pax booked on the original flight, probably some 20 or so in b.flex (actually a surprisingly high number) and quite a number of them Platinum and Gold status (I think I can say this because I saw they were like me able to enter the Lounge for free). Most of them (actually I would say all 8) ) asked for the possibility to change to the 19h00 flight. And what happens?? B.light pax who just happened to stand the closest to the ticket desk at the moment when it became clear how many places really were available on that flight get the places

Do not get me wrong: nothing against b.light or economy pax (very often I am one myself ), but what for do you book and pay b.flex and what for are the Platinum and Gold status things if not for situations like this??? And the bru.air staff at THF just did not care

I am afraid this will be a reason for a very serious complaint at bru.air from my side

Maybe the lady a checkin reads luchtzak and she read in the BruAir topic that you were going to change all your bookings for may to another airline...

[euroflyer]

Maybe the lady a checkin reads luchtzak and she read in the BruAir topic that you were going to change all your bookings for may to another airline...

If I had only done this

But after the 'trouble at bru.air' looked to be a bit calmer over the last days I just didn't want to have to sit in one of those horrible small LH CRJ 200s they are operating between TXL and BRU and so I changed back to bru.air Plus the LH flights between TXL and BRU have quite a high rate of cancellations

So, well, sh*t happens 8)