Flightradar24 Thread Part III

marno21

The aircraft is shown as GLF6 on FR24 so some people may have been wondering.

smurfjed

Marno21, did you consider that there is a good reason why these flights are shown as aircraft type rather than tailnumber?

Fred Swanson

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Jamie2k9

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Normal customers are fully entitled to pay for the VIP service offered by the daa even if flying on a scheduled service.

smurfjed

I'm curious as to how that works in Dublin these days, i remember the old crew customs where VIP passengers would pass, what happens these days for VIP passengers and crew?

Oscar Bravo

9H-VCN on approach to Cork now (blocked on fr 24)

Bazzy

smurfjed wrote: »

I'm curious as to how that works in Dublin these days, i remember the old crew customs where VIP passengers would pass, what happens these days for VIP passengers and crew?

I dont fly that often but occasionally myself and the brother have reason to fly we are contemplating doing it according to the website they have their own unit/desk so they may let you enter via there

As with every country money talks

AGC

smurfjed wrote: »

I'm curious as to how that works in Dublin these days, i remember the old crew customs where VIP passengers would pass, what happens these days for VIP passengers and crew?

Platinum services effectively a mini terminal. Handling agents for private aircraft use it to transit passengers.

DAA will collect passengers from commercial flights also

Border control will come to there to check arrivals if required, US officials won't go there for departures to the States

Oscar Bravo

Beautiful 737(BBJ) crossing west-east over the country at the moment showing as "B737" on flight radar but the reg is N90R

marno21

smurfjed wrote: »

Marno21, did you consider that there is a good reason why these flights are shown as aircraft type rather than tailnumber?

Not really no, given that this information is available to anyone with an ADS-B receiver or anyone in and around the aircraft perimeter of Dublin Airport. It's not like it's confidential, not for public information.

boccy23

Some morning for matching up the trails with planes transiting Ireland.

PukkaStukka

EI331 incoming from Berlin went around at Dublin. Now lining up for its second attempt

Irishweather

E135 flying from YYT over Western Ireland now.

Oscar Bravo

Irishweather wrote: »

E135 flying from YYT over Western Ireland now.

N925FL

TomSweeney

Anyone at Dublin airport is due for a treat, A340-600 Lufthansa is redirecting there now ..

flightradar24.com/DLH453/dc85043

seems a medical emergency on board...

vicwatson

LH 453 LAX-MUC diverted over Glasgow to Dublin I think, why not BFS?

davo2001

vicwatson wrote: »

LH 453 LAX-MUC diverted over Glasgow to Dublin I think, why not BFS?

Better maintance options in DUB I'd assume.

vicwatson

davo2001 wrote: »

Better maintance options in DUB I'd assume.

But I think it's a med emergency

TomSweeney

vicwatson wrote: »

But I think it's a med emergency

According to Airlive on twitter it is a med. emergency, yes seems strange they diverted to Dublin ...

Jacovs

Would the person's nationality ever be a factor?
Like I myself would need a visa for UK but not Ireland, so if they had to divert somewhere it would be easier to go Dublin than Belfast if that was taken into account.

Fred Swanson

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JCX BXC

Take height and runway length into account as well. Lufthansa also sustain operations in DUB but not BFS making it much easier for operations.

Fred Swanson

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Irish Steve

TomSweeney wrote: »

Anyone at Dublin airport is due for a treat, A340-600 Lufthansa is redirecting there now ..

flightradar24.com/DLH453/dc85043

seems a medical emergency on board...

Was walking back through the town earlier, and saw it heading out shortly after take off, wondered what it was, looked on FR24 to see it being shown as a DUB-MUC flight, which had me wondering why, that explains it. I didn't think that Dublin justified a 340-600 on the Munich route just yet.

vicwatson

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But a longer flight time to get there than BFS

Irish Steve

vicwatson wrote: »

But a longer flight time to get there than BFS

Debatable. I've just played it back and they'd turned south east over Glasgow before the diversion started, getting into BFS would have required some serious descent rates to get the height off, the approach to Dublin would not have taken a lot longer, would have given the cabin crew a bit more time to get the cabin prepared for landing, with a much friendlier deck angle, and as mentioned, the transit time to a hospital once on the ground would have been a lot longer at BFS.

Chris_5339762

Runway length anything to do with it? Heavier load?

Chris_5339762

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

Runway length anything to do with it? Heavier load?

No

vicwatson

vicwatson wrote: »

But a longer flight time to get there than BFS

Multitude of factors come into play not just closest airport, no point landing at an airport that is right beside you if the ambulance to hospital takes two hours by road(for point only). Call will most likely have been made by both the doctors via sat link and Lufthansa ops. One of the "city in the sky" episodes covers medical diversions. Other more simple reasons could be, does Belfast have a 340-600 bar.

Bazzy

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Multitude of factors come into play not just closest airport, no point landing at an airport that is right beside you if the ambulance to hospital takes two hours by road(for point only). Call will most likely have been made by both the doctors via sat link and Lufthansa ops. One of the "city in the sky" episodes covers medical diversions. Other more simple reasons could be, does Belfast have a 340-600 bar.

That was a very interesting section on that programme

The smile on one of the doctors face when he was talking about directing a plane to divert it was a nervous smile tough to make the call at the end of a phone