Powerful storm Isha caused the diversion of dozens of flights in Britain and Ireland on Sunday and Monday, sending passengers to Germany, France and northern Britain, stranding some at airports overnight.
At Dublin Airport, 166 flights were cancelled Sunday night, another 29 flights were cancelled on Monday, 36 flights were diverted to other airports and 34 aircraft performed what are known as “go-arounds,” or aborted landings,
Storm Isha has caused big disruption across the UK and while London hasn’t been the worst affected area, it has still caused some problems.
Here is an image of all the diversions recorded by Flightradar 24.
Footage from Big Jet TV showed planes struggling to land at Heathrow Airport
RyanAir Flight FR555, was meant to make a quick hop from Manchester to Dublin. After circling nearby in a holding pattern, it attempted to land at Dublin but made a go-around and diverted to Paris Beauvais. What’s usually a half-hour flight became two-and-a-half hours.
Storm Isha also impacted another RyanAir flight. Flight FR2970 was supposed to fly from Tenerife to Edinburgh but ended up in Cologne after a short holding time over the Scottish city.
There were over 100 go-arounds at UK airports, according to NATS, the UK’s air traffic control operator.
According to CNN there were 44 cancellations at Edinburgh, according to a spokesperson for the airport, who called Sunday’s operations “challenging.” Eight flights were diverted.
Manchester saw 14 cancellations, but fewer go-arounds than other airports because of the direction of the gusts, according to a spokesperson. “We did see some diverted flights leaving Manchester and some diverted to Manchester because of conditions at other airports, particularly Dublin,” they said. A domestic carrier, Loganair, cancelled all its flights yesterday at the airport.
London’s Gatwick Airport saw 22 diversions but was able to take five flights diverted from other airports, according to a spokesperson for the airport. Stansted, northeast of London, was less affected, with nine cancellations but receiving 31 diversions.
