PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Mase on March 21, 2025, 12:34:58 AM
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Because of power failure due to a fire:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14521965/Heathrow-Airport-CLOSED-fire-travel-chaos.htmlno⁸
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My brother and his family are stranded there, they were supposed to fly out of Heathrow today. He says it’s a mess. They don’t know when they’ll be able to get out, might be days.
Says most people are taking the train to Dublin (train plus ferry) but trains are full today already so they’re going to just sit tight. Heathrow might reopen tomorrow night but who knows when they’ll be able to get on a flight. They always fly standby.
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... They always fly standby.
As a retired employee, I know how that works. They are going to be there a good long time.
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As a retired employee, I know how that works. They are going to be there a good long time.
They might go ahead and pay for tickets. I told them to chill and make lemonade out of lemons. Find something fun to do, but I know that might be easier said than done.
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Looks like they can get on a flight out of LGW to Paris ORY tomorrow, stay the night, get a tram to CDG for a Delta or Air France flight to NYC on Sunday, then figure out how to get from there down to SC (home).
Wow, a quarter million people go through Heathrow per day?! They need to get some sort of backup power system in place. Two days down is creating a hell of a lot of havoc.
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Just brought up Flightradar and it looks like LHR is open. Very few planes moving looks like some are reposition flights. Tracked a 777 from Manchester to LHR, about an hour flight.
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They’ve decided to do the Eurostar (Chunnel) to Paris, spend the night and then try to get on a flight back to the U.S. from there tomorrow.
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They’ve decided to do the Eurostar (Chunnel) to Paris, spend the night and then try to get on a flight back to the U.S. from there tomorrow.
That's a great plan. I'd probably stay a few days in Paris, and see the sites.
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Bring in the OSH ATC team in and get it back up next week.
'White low wing over Big Bend, rock your wings!'
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Well, they got a flight from Paris to San Francisco, in the air now. I can’t find it on Flightaware, it won’t let me search without signing in? Since when have they done that?
Anyhow they took off around 6 pm Paris time and will land in San Francisco around 9 pm PDT and then take a midnight flight to ATL, land around 8 am then get a flight to GSP. All for a little over $1k per ticket. Wow. But what an exhausting trip!
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Found it. French Bee 710.
French Bee? Airline? Never heard of it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrHzbLnC4o
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Now that flight, FBU80G, is over Idaho according to Flightradar.
https://www.flightradar24.com/FBU80G/39974d7c
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Now that flight, FBU80G, is over Idaho according to Flightradar.
https://www.flightradar24.com/FBU80G/39974d7c
Did it get renamed? Gotta be the same flight. FBU80G and FBU710?
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/FBU710