I hope you could help me with this enigma. Yesterday I was spotting at SCQ, so I saw an orange tail approaching and wasn´t in schedule. It WAS AN EASYJET. No Easyjet over here yet. I phone the information and all they could confirm is that it was a passenger who had had a heart attack, but could tell me what Easyjet flight was. No Easyjet flight overflies my city (it´s a big divertion) and no yesterday flight arrived/left late to Spain. Easyjet doesn´t fly charter….so….any idea?.
By: EGNM - 27th November 2002 at 21:10
RE: Easyjet enigma
Yep thats the one i flew not too long bak! – i just copied it wrong from the paper copy
By: wysiwyg - 27th November 2002 at 13:44
RE: Easyjet enigma
That should be PATEL rather than PALEL. Patel is the transition (on that routing) between Spanish and French FIR’s. The transition from French to English FIR is SALCO.
That is just one of many routes between Malaga and Manchester.
By: EGNM - 26th November 2002 at 14:51
RE: Easyjet enigma
yep – sorry the routing i have for the Malaga was: –
LEMG- VIBAS1A STAR – VIBAS – UB112 – BLN – UN865 – VTB – UN867 – BLV – UM601 – PALEL – UN864 – SALCO – UA29 – DAWLY – UA25 – MONTY – MIRSI1A – EGCC
Sorry – just was a spur of the moment thing – mouth b4 brain!
By: Hand87_5 - 26th November 2002 at 08:39
RE: Easyjet enigma
Makes sense . The French ATC was supposed to start strike yesterday on 9pm ( once again)
By: wysiwyg - 26th November 2002 at 00:59
RE: Easyjet enigma
Yes, normal routing from Malaga would overfly between Santander and Bilbao but only if French airspace is open.
By: keltic - 26th November 2002 at 00:49
RE: Easyjet enigma
Malaga planes overfly Bilbao. In any case, your theory seems to me very interesting. Two theories…..traffic controllers and heart attack. You´re brilliant.
By: wysiwyg - 25th November 2002 at 23:37
RE: Easyjet enigma
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-11-02 AT 11:39 PM (GMT)]This is purely a stab in the dark but…
French air traffic are talikng about striking at the moment, so if I was returning to Gatwick, Luton or Liverpool from Malaga, Madrid, Barcelona or Alicante I would flight plan up towards Santiago, contact Shanwick on HF for Oceanic entry clearance and fly up Tango 9 about 200 miles west of the coast of France. About 150 miles west of Landsend you can hang a right turn for home. It’s a pain in the backside but this is what we do most times our neighbouring snail-munchers go on strike (apologies to Hand!). It could be that EZY had a medical emergency while doing this.
By: EGNM - 25th November 2002 at 23:35
RE: Easyjet enigma
SCQ – i suppose it could be a Malaga on the way back to Gatwick, Luton or liverpool – the latter prob most favourable
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