Think how much CO2 was emitted because of that curfew law. Anyone who cares about the environment should be advocating for repealing it, or at least changing it to "if the plane would be scheduled to land within curfew at the time it takes off, then it's allowed to land no matter what time it actually gets there". Especially since the go-around there made as much noise as landing would have.
That flight started much later than planned, and already got an extension for 30 minutes after the curfew. If the pilots, or the airline acted smarter, they'd diverted to Hahn from the beginning. I also don't have much sympathy for the terrible distress of the poor passengers, coming in from Mallorca with a cheap mass-tourism carrier. Probably much drunken, as is usual. Imagine the ADVENTURE to be stranded in the middle of nowhere, driving through the dark night in unknown territory, to be greeted by the rotten concrete of FFM!
Yay! Serves them right. So much for (useless in the first place!) spent fuel/burned carbon. Harr, Harr, Harr :-)
The passengers of that flight went onto the long detour. The plane itself just got detoured 75 miles to Hahn, former US AFB. Took so long because the personell there wasn't ready to handle the luggage, or already gone. Because unexpected. Then the airline messed up further by bringing them to Frankfurt am Main by Bus/Coach, to wait there for a morning flight to Munich. The Bus could also have brought them to the next main train station, in lets say Mainz, from where they could have taken the next fast train to Munich, or whereever they needed to be, payed for by Condor. Cheapskates.
Think how much CO2 was emitted because of that curfew law. Anyone who cares about the environment should be advocating for repealing it, or at least changing it to "if the plane would be scheduled to land within curfew at the time it takes off, then it's allowed to land no matter what time it actually gets there". Especially since the go-around there made as much noise as landing would have.
That flight started much later than planned, and already got an extension for 30 minutes after the curfew. If the pilots, or the airline acted smarter, they'd diverted to Hahn from the beginning. I also don't have much sympathy for the terrible distress of the poor passengers, coming in from Mallorca with a cheap mass-tourism carrier. Probably much drunken, as is usual. Imagine the ADVENTURE to be stranded in the middle of nowhere, driving through the dark night in unknown territory, to be greeted by the rotten concrete of FFM!
Yay! Serves them right. So much for (useless in the first place!) spent fuel/burned carbon. Harr, Harr, Harr :-)
Flight Radar's article had better detail: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-news/airline-new... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225847)
The passengers of that flight went onto the long detour. The plane itself just got detoured 75 miles to Hahn, former US AFB. Took so long because the personell there wasn't ready to handle the luggage, or already gone. Because unexpected. Then the airline messed up further by bringing them to Frankfurt am Main by Bus/Coach, to wait there for a morning flight to Munich. The Bus could also have brought them to the next main train station, in lets say Mainz, from where they could have taken the next fast train to Munich, or whereever they needed to be, payed for by Condor. Cheapskates.