An 'unusual' British Airways flight
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An 'unusual' British Airways flight
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Every flight I have been on the captain comes on the pa system and says welcome to flight no and to where ever you are going.Also did not any passenger not notice they had not crossed any water en route,would pressume City flights to Germany would go out over Dover or Clacton which is not very far from a City take off.
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The flight was operated by the German airline WDL with BAe 146-200 D-AMGL, even the crew must have been mystified why they were going to Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf as BA Cityflyer only normally use their own ERJ170 & 190s on this route.
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Big Eric wrote:even the crew must have been mystified why they were going to Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf as BA Cityflyer only normally use their own ERJ170 & 190s on this route.
BA3271 has been operated by D-AMGL since Thursday last week, presumably to cover the downtime of an Embraer.
I'm surprised that the pilot didn't make an announcement and it be picked up there but equally that ATC didn't think to question the flight using the Dusseldorf callsign was departing at its usual time...but to Edinburgh. Even at Manchester things like that are queried fairly often, especially when TUI or Thomas Cook re-use callsigns for different routes week-in, week-out!
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cg_341 wrote:BA3271 has been operated by D-AMGL since Thursday last week, presumably to cover the downtime of an Embraer.
Thanks for that, I didn't know it had operated the LCY-EDI flight since Thursday.
What a massive c0ck-up by everyone involved!
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Arguably Edinburgh is closer to Dusseldorf than some Ryanair airports are to their claimed destinations...
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Dan O'Hagan wrote:Arguably Edinburgh is closer to Dusseldorf than some Ryanair airports are to their claimed destinations...
One of the many, many jokes which has been doing the rounds about this incident suggests that, had it been a Ryanair flight, they would simply have brazened it out by announcing "welcome to Dusseldorf North..."
Posting comments on an aviation-related chatroom, are ya? Looks like it an' all...
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The Pilot should have gone to Specsavers
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Euan Buchan wrote:The Pilot should have gone to Specasvers
Should have gone to where?
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I see Ryanair's attempt to gain some mileage out of the incident has backfired. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47710152
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47710152
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Big Eric wrote:Euan Buchan wrote:The Pilot should have gone to Specasvers
Should have gone to where?
HTAFC
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Dan O'Hagan wrote:Arguably Edinburgh is closer to Dusseldorf than some Ryanair airports are to their claimed destinations...
This.
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