V-Flyer

LGW is closed.

VS28 to STN
VS30 and 32 to LHR

It's a joke, even this morning the weather people are only talking a snow event in Wales & south-west...they're mentioning a 'dusting' here in the south-east! My car is abandoned, Steve's stuck in 'snow on inch thick ice' blocking the road and....yes Scrooge...Gatwick is sc****d!!

Good luck everyone impacted by the white stuff!

James >>>

05:55 BA2154 BRIDGETOWN DELAYED North Terminal
05:55 BW2900 BRIDGETOWN DELAYED North Terminal
06:35 BA2232 BERMUDA DELAYED North Terminal
06:35 EK011 DUBAI DELAYED North Terminal
06:55 DL12 ATLANTA DIVERTED North Terminal
06:55 QR075 DOHA DELAYED North Terminal
06:55 US4971 DOHA DELAYED North Terminal
07:05 CO9708 ORLANDO DIVERTED South Terminal
07:05 VS028 ORLANDO DIVERTED South Terminal
07:10 BA8110 AMSTERDAM DELAYED North Terminal
07:10 US732 CHARLOTTE DIVERTED South Terminal
07:25 BA2585 VENICE DELAYED North Terminal
07:25 HV5195 ROTTERDAM CANCELLED South Terminal
07:35 BA2036 ORLANDO DELAYED North Terminal
07:35 EZS8469 GENEVA EXPECTED 1010 North Terminal
07:35 TOM031 MONTEGO BAY DIVERTED North Terminal
07:40 BA2901 MANCHESTER DELAYED North Terminal

I am sat in Revivals after waiting an eternity for the bags. Seems many of the LGW flights have been diverted to LHR. What a nightmare for all of those wanting to get home or get away.

Thanks,
Sarah

How can LHR be operating (relatively) normally, but LGW be shut?!

you have to have a lot of sympathy for some poor bugger trying to sort this mess out- planes everywhere but where they should be

quote:Originally posted by clarkeysntfc
How can LHR be operating (relatively) normally, but LGW be shut?!

Once again it seems Sussex (Gatwick) has had much more of a snow dumping than around Heathrow area. Here in Mid-Sussex nearly all trains are cancelled, roads blocked...we're just not able to go anywhere.

I'm currently sitting in a restaurant in LGW South Terminal waiting for a flight to Calgary and watching the snow fall.. the runway is still being ploughed, fingers crossed we can get away today!

quote:Originally posted by antrichardson
I'm currently sitting in a restaurant in LGW South Terminal waiting for a flight to Calgary and watching the snow fall.. the runway is still being ploughed, fingers crossed we can get away today!


Hope you get away! Good Luck!

I think everyone needs to calm down a little. I now live in Geneva, the home of snow, and as I type Geneva airport is currently closed and it was shut for 6 hours on Sunday.

So if in a country where they are more than prepared for snow an airport can close I am not surprised Gatwick can close too.

All our LGW flights today are either cancelled (VS 28 / ANU), will operate from LHR (BGI and LAS) or delayed overnight (HAV).
What a nightmare, we still haven't recovered from the closure last week. So relieved I'm not flying again until the end of the month.
At least all our flight diverted into LHR or STN this time and not MAN and Birmingham.

quote:Originally posted by virginboy747
All our LGW flights today are either cancelled (VS 28 / ANU), will operate from LHR (BGI and LAS) or delayed overnight (HAV).
What a nightmare, we still haven't recovered from the closure last week. So relieved I'm not flying again until the end of the month.
At least all our flight diverted into LHR or STN this time and not MAN and Birmingham.


VB, what happens to the LAS/BGI pax, who stayed over in a LGW hotel last night for their flight today. Do they get bussed to LHR?

Not going to open for a while. NOTAM:

SNOWTAM
FROM: 10/01/13 07:35
A)EGKK B)01130735 C)08R F)2/2/2 G)XX H)999 T)SWEEPING AND DE-ICING OF RUNWAY,TAXIWAYS AND STANDS CONTINUE)
Q) EGTT/QFALC/IV/NBO/A/000/999/5109N00011W005

B) FROM: 10/01/13 11:45C) TO: 10/01/13 16:00 EST
E) AD CLOSED FOR SNOW CLEARANCE

As individuals disruption to our plans is never welcome; we're off to Lanzarote next week, from East Mids, and hoping our flights will be okay.

But then you read about the quake in Haiti and things don't seem so important.

quote:Originally posted by stevebrass
But then you read about the quake in Haiti and things don't seem so important.


As true as this is most people don't see the bigger picture. [V]

It's been snowing here in Manchester all morning, nothing too heavy though and it's due to get warmer and rainy at the weekend (YAY!)

The area around Gatwick has had heavy snow but to shut the runway for so long?

quote:Originally posted by Lizz
quote:Originally posted by stevebrass
But then you read about the quake in Haiti and things don't seem so important.


As true as this is most people don't see the bigger picture. [V]

It's been snowing here in Manchester all morning, nothing too heavy though and it's due to get warmer and rainy at the weekend (YAY!)


We're flying Man to MCO in April - hopefully no snow problems that day.

quote:Originally posted by Door013
The area around Gatwick has had heavy snow but to shut the runway for so long?

Looks like they've extended the closure >> 'Updated at 13.40: Following continued snowfall the runway at Gatwick Airport is currently closed for snow clearance and is expected to remain closed until 16.00'

quote:Originally posted by stevebrass

We're flying Man to MCO in April - hopefully no snow problems that day.

MAN should be OK by then but what about MCO? [:D]

Solar De-ice: quote:Pilots are forced to sit their planes in the sun until the ice melts.

quote:Originally posted by stevebrass


We're flying Man to MCO in April - hopefully no snow problems that day.


Now that is a little melodramatic!

quote:Originally posted by stevebrass


We're flying Man to MCO in April - hopefully no snow problems that day.


Please don't jinx it!

FL having one of the coldest January's on record.

quote:Originally posted by slinky09
quote:Originally posted by stevebrass


We're flying Man to MCO in April - hopefully no snow problems that day.


Now that is a little melodramatic!


Well I used to live in Manchester, and I remember May 1981 being snowed on as I tried to repair my car!

quote:
Well I used to live in Manchester, and I remember May 1981 being snowed on as I tried to repair my car!


And this is why I'm all for global warming [:w]

According to Sky News (20103101 0920GMT) Manchester Airport Clsed due to heavy snow - all flights diverted. Heavy Snow forcasted for many areas (inc North London) this afternoon.

quote:Originally posted by hackneyguy
According to Sky News (20103101 0920GMT) Manchester Airport Clsed due to heavy snow - all flights diverted. Heavy Snow forcasted for many areas (inc North London) this afternoon.


Seems to open again...a few cancellations and a good number of late departures. VS076 diverted.