Volcanic Ash Grounds UK Flights

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15-04-2010, 08:03 PM
HUTCHYHIBBY

Not good news - flights now suspended until 1pm tomorrow as per SKY News.
15-04-2010, 08:08 PM
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This pleases me, not just because I like a good drama, but because I have a very dear friend visiting from Spain who is due to fly back on Saturday morning... Hopefully this flight ban will last a while.. Mon the volcanic ash..

Every cloud and all that....

You must getting your Nat King then :cool2:
15-04-2010, 08:10 PM
HUTCHYHIBBY

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Originally Posted by 65bd

You must getting your Nat King then :cool2:

More likely to be Juan King if its a Spanish visitor!
15-04-2010, 08:26 PM
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More likely to be Juan King if its a Spanish visitor!

:faf:

Aye, if you were a woman would you sleep with this man :dunno:
15-04-2010, 08:31 PM
HUTCHYHIBBY

The colour doesnae suit him!
15-04-2010, 08:38 PM
ArabHibee

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Originally Posted by hibee_girl

You'd be surprised how many people don't realise that. We were on a flight coming home a few years ago, couldn't land at Edinburgh airport due to really bad weather so we went to Glasgow. You would have thought we were going to Canada the way some folk reacted :bitchy: Sorry but I'd rather a few hours added on to a journey than be dead!!

The best bit though was when they were trying to organise coaches to get us back to Edinburgh, lots of folk complaining that I was getting on the first coach just because I had a young baby :rolleyes:

Babies on planes again! :grr:
15-04-2010, 08:39 PM
greenlex

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Babies on planes again! :grr:

Better that than snakes IMO.
15-04-2010, 08:43 PM
hibee_girl

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Originally Posted by ArabHibee

Babies on planes again! :grr:

A coach actually :wink:
15-04-2010, 09:03 PM
ArabHibee

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Originally Posted by hibee_girl

A coach actually :wink:

And before that? :cool2:
15-04-2010, 09:08 PM
hibee_girl

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And before that? :cool2:

A flight that he slept the whole way through :cool2:
15-04-2010, 09:14 PM
Sylar

It's apparently now raining down on the upper highlands of Scotland.

My field data is going to be shot to sh*t next week! :boo hoo:
15-04-2010, 09:18 PM
sleeping giant

My Wife is booked on a flight to London at 06:25 tomorrow which has been cancelled. Her return flight at 18:35 has not been cancelled.

Easyjet are saying i can amend her outbound flight but i'm not entitled to amend her return flight.

This can't be right can it. Surely i can get a full refund for both flights:confused:
If she is not flying out , she can hardly fly back !!

Anyone know anything about this ?
15-04-2010, 09:23 PM
Westie1875

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Originally Posted by sleeping giant

My Wife is booked on a flight to London at 06:25 tomorrow which has been cancelled. Her return flight at 18:35 has not been cancelled.

Easyjet are saying i can amend her outbound flight but i'm not entitled to amend her return flight.

This can't be right can it. Surely i can get a full refund for both flights:confused:
If she is not flying out , she can hardly fly back !!

Anyone know anything about this ?

Give it until the morning, by then her return flight will probably be cancelled too with the way things have gone so far.
15-04-2010, 09:34 PM
HibbiesandtheBaddies

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Originally Posted by foreverhibs

I'm sitting typing this in the departure area of Manchester Airport. Due to fly back to Aberdeen at 2pm, definitely not happening. Waiting to see if flights are going to resume later this evening, if not it's the train or bus for me.

Loads of people mumping and moaning around me. Of course it's a pain in the er5e but surely everyone realises safety comes first? Can't understand all this shouting at airport workers myself, it's hardly their fault and i'd be more worried if they were taking pointless risks.

They should round up all these fuds, give them the keys to a plane and show them where the auto pilot button is... :greengrin

Some Weedgie punter in an airport, interviewed on News at Ten has the answer, "tell them to fly under the clouds, cos the ash is at 40,000 ft"....:doh:
15-04-2010, 09:37 PM
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Some Weedgie punter in an airport, interviewed on News at Ten has the answer, "tell them to fly under the clouds, cos the ash is at 40,000 ft"....:doh:

Sensible logic for a weegie though :faf:
15-04-2010, 09:39 PM
Pretty Boy

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Originally Posted by HibbiesandtheBaddies

They should round up all these fuds, give them the keys to a plane and show them where the auto pilot button is... :greengrin

Some Weedgie punter in an airport, interviewed on News at Ten has the answer, "tell them to fly under the clouds, cos the ash is at 40,000 ft"....:doh:

I heard a boy on the radio earlier ask how it was that planes couldn't fly through the ash but could land in places like Afghanistan where it's really sandy. I think he was being serious.
15-04-2010, 09:54 PM
vein

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Originally Posted by vein

Its Ryanair we are flying with and I can see they have cancelled all flights in and out of the UK for today. I'm just hoping that tomorrows flights are not affected but they have said the anticpate cancellations and delays tomorrow too :worried:

Game over for me, flight was at 7.40 tomorrow so has been cancelled. I spent 45 minutes in a phone queue at 10p a min trying to change my flights over to Mon-Mon but got cut off :grr: When I could finally amend flights online it would only let me change my outbound but not the return so would have been Mon-Fri so have now given up and taken the refund.

Funnily enough its my wife and me that are gutted, my 6 year old boy isnt all that bothered. He wants to look at Iceland on Google streets :greengrin

All is not lost as I've just booked a 4 bed exec lodge at the Cumbria center parcs for mon-fri next week for £300 which I thought was a decent price. Its just not the beach tho :grr::grr::boo hoo:
15-04-2010, 11:13 PM
CB_NO3

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Originally Posted by Teo10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

Woke up this morning and heard this had happened, didn't believe it at first until I heard it again... I had thought why would flights be grounded because of this, it explains it a bit as to why they've shut the airports.

Crazy stuff:agree:

BTW I have just seen a plane fly over Edinburgh, over the Forth heading north.
15-04-2010, 11:14 PM
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BTW I have just seen a plane fly over Edinburgh, over the Forth heading north.

:hmmm: Are you sure it wasn't a UFO heading towards Dunfermline Tesco
15-04-2010, 11:18 PM
CB_NO3

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:hmmm: Are you sure it wasn't a UFO heading towards Dunfermline Tesco

Lol, sounded and looked like a plane.
15-04-2010, 11:51 PM
givescotlandfreedom

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Originally Posted by foreverhibs

Loads of people mumping and moaning around me. Of course it's a pain in the er5e but surely everyone realises safety comes first? Can't understand all this shouting at airport workers myself, it's hardly their fault and i'd be more worried if they were taking pointless risks.

It gets on my nerves as someone who works in the transport industry transport when folk moan at staff about adverse weather conditions. They'd be as well getting on their knees and moaning to God as recently a train crashed with fatalities due to a rail landslide and as we've seen before planes' engines can cut out due to ash. Better safe than dead.
16-04-2010, 12:00 AM
Liam89

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:hmmm: Are you sure it wasn't a UFO heading towards Dunfermline Tesco

:top marks:faf:
16-04-2010, 12:11 AM
Chuckie

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:faf:

Aye, if you were a woman would you sleep with this man :dunno:

Phwoooar.
You've been Juan King over that Billy eh.
16-04-2010, 12:17 AM
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Phwoooar.
You've been Juan King over that Billy eh.

:agree: Every night
16-04-2010, 12:21 AM
sleeping giant

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Originally Posted by 65bd

:agree: Every night

How much notice do you give it ?
16-04-2010, 06:04 AM
s.a.m

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Originally Posted by Aaron

Ryanair usually have a quick flight turn around so it depends on where your aircraft is just now as it might not even be in the UK.

And for the geeky amongst us. Here is a live radar map of Europe's airspace: http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

YOU'VE FOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNDDDD ME!!!! :greengrin

That's brilliant (and currently very empty.....). Ta.:thumbsup:
16-04-2010, 06:19 AM
Judas Iscariot

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:agree: Every night

:agree: Defo same..
16-04-2010, 08:20 AM
cheeky moonkeh

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Originally Posted by CB_NO3

BTW I have just seen a plane fly over Edinburgh, over the Forth heading north.

We saw this plane also, cause it was really loud, looked pretty low!!!
16-04-2010, 08:33 AM
J-C

Limited flights flying out of Scotland and NI, none heading south but transatlantic and flights east starting first.
16-04-2010, 08:48 AM
Phil D. Rolls

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Originally Posted by givescotlandfreedom

It gets on my nerves as someone who works in the transport industry transport when folk moan at staff about adverse weather conditions. They'd be as well getting on their knees and moaning to God as recently a train crashed with fatalities due to a rail landslide and as we've seen before planes' engines can cut out due to ash. Better safe than dead.

I think they're quite right, it's time you lot were better trained in switching the weather on and off. Then we wouldn't have all these emergencies like kiddies not getting to their child minder and mums not getting to the hair dresser.

It's broken Britain alright. Do you know this, I was in a hospital the other day, and somebody had died!!!! You'd expect the canteen to be in pandemonium and doctors and nurses consoling each other in grief. The selfish ********s just got on with their day like nothing had happened.

British workers have just lost the ability to accept responsibility for the things they should be doing. Bring back Franco, he speaks their language.

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