I’m back … with the help of Aerlingus & Ryanair

Posted on December 20, 2006, under Theories, irishblogs.

There’s been a few reports of fog in Ireland and the UK. I somehow made my way home through the fog yesterday. It involved the following events, in no particular order.

  • eating 2 panninis (one in Germany, the other in Ireland), drinking 4 coffees (1/3)
  • getting a flight from Dublin, at 11:30am, which was delayed 50 minutes due to weather problems (see pics below)
  • landing in Dublin and waiting for 6 hours for a flight to Cork
  • getting a fright seeing that Aer Arran had cancelled all their flights to Cork and to many other destinations.
  • stealing some free WLAN at the airport as well as some electricity, near the check-in section I could get a good reception, but it was disrupted by people standing in front of me.
  • seeing a young lady (21 or so) breast feed her kid opposite McDonalds and the look of disgust/intrigue from people eating their Big Macs.
  • landing in Cork and surprised by the fact that there is a Starbucks and a Subway there !

The pics of fog, after landing in Dublin yesterday:

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During out flight the captain of the Ryanair flight mentioned that conditions in Cork were just below the minimum to land the 737-800, and we might have to divert. Thankfully 15 minutes later were were safely braking on Cork Airports runway. The weather doesn’t seem to be getting better, today there is 160/400 flights cancelled by BA alone in the UK !

So the trip back took 12 hours, where as before when there were direct flights between Cork & Munich it took only 4.5 hours to go door to door. :( Maybe when aerlingus get to read my other blog post they will put the Cork/Munich route back into operation.

2 Replies to "I’m back … with the help of Aerlingus & Ryanair"

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Donncha O Caoimh  on December 20, 2006

I had a similar experience landing in Cork airport a few years ago, and unfortunately weather was so bad we were diverted to Shannon and I had to endure a 3 hours bus ride back down to Cork.

We were *so* close and the pilot pulled up again!

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paul  on December 21, 2006

Wow ! I’ve had a breached landing once. We were landing in Munich and we just touched the tarmac, and the pilot put the pedal to the metal and we took off again. We had to circle a few times and during it the pilot came on the intercom and apologised about the event, but it was due to the following plane behind us being too close !

So after 4 loops circling, we finally got a spot to land.

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