Flight Radar 24 pt 2

[NoGravyForYou]

I don't know if anyone else has made one!
BA2665 has missed LGW and is circling again

Rotterdam looks to be going for it but Moscow just about to land in Malaga after all that.

If Rotterdam makes it they'll wish they'd hung around!

Rotterdam flight just landed at Lanzarote so the airports aren't all closed. Bet it's like walking out into the apocalypse though!

Rotterdam made it. Yes @whitesoxx that Moscow flight has only just landed so would've had enough fuel to hang around, but maybe Tenerife is harsher right now? Goodness knows.

They’ve got better visibility than the likes of TFS, 1800 metres on their last report.

Rotterdam looks as if its landed.
Well done that pilot, wonder why though when nothing else has tried how do they decide, is it just pilots or airtraffic control or was it a special case due to problems?

N61RW still going. Could it be doing a survey of the area?

Not sure, it's interesting though, seemed intent on going for it. Seems bizarre that the Moscow flight would go all that way back to Malaga and not try and land somewhere nearer - like lanzarote! No circling or attempts, literally, nah let's go back

I think so peek must be something like that

FWIW TFS is still reporting 500 metres visibility which is below published minima for their “best” approach....FWIW you can’t just “have a go” if the reported visibility is below the minima you can’t commence an approach.

18OO metres visibility (Lanzarote) would be legit for many types of approach.

Where was the Aeroflot inbound to?

What's interesting @whitesoxx is that it's going to the Connecticut state line then turning around and going back to the opposing state line. Could it be a drone?

Tenerife which explains them not "having a go". But why not land somewhere closer than Malaga?

Catching up here - maybe Aeroflot operations simply didn’t want the aircraft at Lanzarote (ground support, etc) so the options the crew might have had were either destination or “back” to the mainland.
Possible if they had flown all the way from Russia they won’t have had a lot of “hanging around” fuel to spare either...

It never crosses the state line. Got to be a survey of some kind?

DE1584 from Munich to Tenerife got to about Malaga and turned back. It’s nearly back in Munich. I can’t decide if that’s better or worse than being diverted. At least you can go home to your own bed I suppose.

Olddearie...

As a wise person once said..”.if we divert do you want to go to XXX and stay the night in a questionable hotel, but before going to bed we have to help sort out accomodation for YYY people.....or do you want to go back to where your car is parked and where probably 50% of the passengers live or have friends and relatives”....

Yes, back home definitely better!

Rotterdam seems to have just taken off back to Netherlands.
Must be the only plane on time from canaries today

Finnair AY2059 having a go at Fuertaventura from Malaga - it’s over Morocco just now.

BA 2702 now out of Faro enroute to......Marrakesh

This thread is like the inside of my DS's head. He can (and frequently does) talk about planes and flights and airports for hours and he seems to spend half his life checking flight radar . Nothing flies past us without us immediately knowing what it is, where it's from and where it's going.

Stuck in Tenerife
We we minutes from taking off yesterday at 4pm when they announced visibility was below their safe level of 800m
Effectively closed down after that.

Sandstorm hit Gran Canaria earlier so flights were diverted to TFS.

amaryl Sorry you are stuck. We managed to get out of Lanzarote yesterday evening after a 3 hour delay. I honestly thought we were going to be overnighted there. Our incoming flight was diverted to Fuerventura and apparently sat on the tarmac there full of passengers for 2.5 hours before they spotted a gap to get across.

There was around 4 hours of nothing moving in Lanzarote.

Last time we went to Lanzarote there was a medical emergency on the return flight and we turned back around 1/3rd of the way home. I don't think we'll go there in half term again. (But thanks to a doctor passenger the person lived so that was OK).

Anyone watching just now? What's going on with LS6012 from East Midlands?

Looks like it was getting rid of fuel before returning.

Thanks for the explanation, I presume the plane will be without passengers?