New Flight Radar thread - it's windy tonight

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A new thread for FR

Is it heading for Prestwick now?

Planes are aborting landing all over the place at MAN.
possibly weather conditions better at Liverpool. It could be a Liverpool based crew too.

Omg! 3 hours to fly Manchester to Liverpool!!!

Looks like Manchester-Dublin has landed at Liverpool. What a relief for them.

Turin is going in for another try.

Be quicker to drive 😩

I’m about 45 minutes from EMA and the weather here is wild.

Really glad I’m not flying tonight!

I can't understand it myself either. Weather forecasts are a major part of pre flight and in flight checks I'd have thought. Surely if a pilot sees big problems arising at a particular airport e.g. Dublin tonight s/he would either delay take off to see if weather improves or cancel the flight after a few hours.

Surely it costs the airlines a fortune to keep the plane circling and diverting, and all that extra payload of fuel "just in case" they have to circle or divert, AND transfer passengers from the "wrong" airport to the right one overland. Oh I'm sure there are valid reasons, maybe the airline insists on it, maybe the pilots want to "have a go" I really don't know though. But it doesn't make much sense to me when they know things are pretty bad at the destination airport.

Feel sorry for those that get their travels disrupted tonight!

It started in Copenhagen at 9.45, aborted to MAN first then tried again - they've been on there for 11 hours, as I suspect they weren't allowed off in MAN.

Any Idea where Gran Canaria to Belfast is going to end up - currently over the English channel

Out of interest have any flight been cancelled or are they they all ‘having a go’?

Looks like it's on its way north

They might lose cash as well if they cancel. Last year I got my flight cancelled cuz of wind in Dubrovnik. They didn’t pay me compensation as I wasn’t entitled to but they paid for every extra spend that incurred to until I got home. I guess sometimes it might not feel safe to flight but a window of safe opens and they’ve to try it. They might also get penalised for having airplanes in airports that aren’t meant to be

Watching the Doha to Heathrow plane, done some circles Round london now over Manchester!

Just ‘watched’ the Antalya to Bhx land. They must be so relieved.

Are there problems at Heathrow as well! Looks like a 777 from Doha has been diverted to Manchester.

Looks as if it’s going to land at Manchester!

Turinplane has landed at Manchester

What's going on there!

I was on one once and they were dumping fuel. the plane was eventually landed miles from the terminal and we were accompanied by fire engines down the runway. AOK in the end. but scary and eventually buses back to the terminal.

I’m so glad I’m watching FR24 and not aboard!

Doha to London now giving Manchester a try. If it wasn't cloudy I'd see it pass my window.

Oh dear lord

There’s a BA Frankfurt to Heathrow that seems to have turned round. Got very low and very close. Now heading east.