All Transatlantic flights grounded

EK01 · October 03, 2009, 09:48:05 AM

According to the BBC news all transatlantic flights from the UK have been grounded due to a major ATC failure at Shanwick. They did not mention if overflights from Europe were alaos affected.

pjm · October 03, 2009, 09:52:42 AM

Turning on the network feed and shifting focus to the UK now :)

MrT · October 03, 2009, 09:54:40 AM

Me too!

John Racars · October 03, 2009, 09:55:36 AM

Quote from: EK01 on October 03, 2009, 09:48:05 AM
They did not mention if overflights from Europe were alaos affected.

From here the transatlantic flights are still going enroute from / over the Netherlands in the direction of the UK...

pjm · October 03, 2009, 10:01:11 AM

Can't see anything heading across the Atlantic, lots of traffic between Europe, Middle East and Spain/Portugal tho....

MrT · October 03, 2009, 10:04:11 AM

Heading back to my patch around Melbourne, Oz

Much quieter! Boring, but much less stressful !

Andy Frost · October 03, 2009, 10:18:28 AM

Here's the link to the story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8288313.stm.

Allocator · October 03, 2009, 10:21:41 AM

Aircraft still seem to be routing via Lands End. DAL7 to KATL and AAL115 to KJFK have just coasted out. AAL55 over Dublin out of EGCC looks like it's heading for the same route.

EK01 · October 03, 2009, 10:34:12 AM

Allocator,

Looks like it is just the more northerly crossings that are affected.

pjm · October 03, 2009, 10:34:58 AM

Very strange DAL7 seems to be heading towards UK/Scotland despite the route saying its OMDB- KATL - is it heading back to the UK?

John Racars · October 03, 2009, 10:38:57 AM

Over EHAM some minutes ago: AWE701 EDDF-KPHL heading 304
Over German/Dutch border: DLH410 EDDM-KJFK hdg 303

Allocator · October 03, 2009, 10:40:32 AM

Quote from: pjm on October 03, 2009, 10:34:58 AM
Very strange DAL7 seems to be heading towards UK/Scotland despite the route saying its OMDB- KATL - is it heading back to the UK?

It was certainly going SW whilst I was watching it. I'll have another look.

Edit: Can't see it now, I'm presuming that it's flown out of cover to the SW? Where was it when you saw it?

Edit again: There are 2 DAL7's out there! N832MH going SW from Lands End and N830MH over Ireland heading SE. Guess that the cres forgot to change the Flight ID?

pjm · October 03, 2009, 10:44:39 AM

Quote from: Allocator on October 03, 2009, 10:40:32 AM
It was certainly going SW whilst I was watching it. I'll have another look.

Just to confuse things, there are actually 2x DAL7's going different directions :)

Allocator · October 03, 2009, 10:46:37 AM

Yep, see my edited post above.

Andy Frost · October 03, 2009, 10:54:03 AM

BBC now saying that the problem has been resolved and expected to be working properly again at 1200 uk time.