My wife is still in Lusaka (Zambia), she was due to fly home from a school trip Thursday morning and her bags where already on the plain when it was cancelled, BA are picking up the tab as far as she's been told.
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This volcano and cancelled flights
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i wasn't supposed to fly anywhere and the volcano has cost me just under a grand in cancelled work
Just to balance that a bit I was a due to travel to Djibouti on Wednesday to do a job
The win, win for me is I hate the 'kin place & they're still going to pay me for it
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about to find out if they will pay me despite the cancellation. can't argue the toss with them too much as the overall loss of work would be too great if we fell out
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and the irony is that the job was for a major manufacturer of jet engines
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Stuck in Kuala Lumpur since Friday with wife and 3 kids, option of a flight to Rome tomorrow but think I will wait it out. It's cost me plenty so far.
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They're starting to open airports tomorrow - as far South as NE England
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The wife texted from Zambia earlier, they've been told to be ready at six hours notice. She may be home tomorrow, I'd better tidy the house just in case
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Stuck in Kuala Lumpur since Friday with wife and 3 kids, option of a flight to Rome tomorrow but think I will wait it out. It's cost me plenty so far.
EVIs that you TKH?
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SAS are currently showing this afternoon's Stockholm to Manchester flight as 'planned'. But my ticket is for Thursday am. I'm going to be keeping a close watch on things and, if flights start going, see if I can get on an earlier flight.
I need a haircut.
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The knock on effect of all the cancelled flights will be horrendous. How long to clear the backlog/flights getting back to normal?
I'm stuck in Melbourne. Due to fly back today but no boarding for UK-bound flights. I'd rather be here than Dubai but the next available seat is mid-May... So, there must be quite a backlog in Dubai. Could be worse: 27 degrees, cold Coopers in the fridge.
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And I'm stuck in Santa Cruz, California. I was due to fly on Wednesday, so I might either be one of the first ones to fly, or if it's canceled, then I might be here for another week or more. I'm managing to live pretty cheaply, though if the flight's canceled, it's going to start costing more in car rental (and buying people beers for letting me stay on their sofas...)
I wouldn't mind it either way, I can do a reasonable amount of work here if I'm stuck, and I probably should be good for sofa space for a bit, but it's the uncertainty that's an arse.
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Apart from an intended trip out to Berlin on Friday which I assume isn't going to happen I'm finding it very pleasant at the moment with no flights into or out of Heathrow. I'm not looking forward to the 24 hour flying on the first full day of operations - bloody planes.
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Currently in Gran Canaria, meant to have an interview on Thursday morning. Hopefully worse case I would be back by Monday as meant to start a new job.
I am meant to be flying tomorrow, we shall see,
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I had a text from the wife at 10:17, saying that she was just about to board the plane in Lusaka, but she didn't no where they would be landing
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do they assume we live in a perfect world where nothing unusual ever happens?
This is a bit more unusual than usual though
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Good point
But like the 'lost revenue' in the winter, if nature stops you from doing something then you never had the money in the first place!Posted 2 years ago # -
if nature stops you from doing something then you never had the money in the first place!
I guess it's like if you're self employed and break you leg, you are loosing money because you can't earn money and you still need to pay the mortgage and feed the kids.
The airlines have no revenue at the moment, but they still need to pay staff, interest payments, insurance and all the other fixed cost which you pay whether you're operating or not. So you do lose money in a very real sense.
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The wife finally landed at Heathrow just before 01:00 this morning, after stopping at Barcelona for a while, to re-fuel. The school sent the minibus to pick them up and she arrived home at 05:45
Just one small problem, all the luggage is still in Lusaka, as the plane was too heavy to fly in the midday heat and they where given the choice 50 people get off, or leave the luggage Posted 2 years ago # -
Just got back to sunny South Wales this morning.
I was stuck In Wroclaw (Poland) right at the beginning of this ash last Thursday.
Stayed in Wroclaw all weekend but decided to travel by train across Poland / Germany / France to Calais.
Bit od an epic journey, but could not get a ticket on the Eurostar though the Channel tunnel for love nor money. So my ticket only took me to Calais, where I would have had to get off the Eurostar.
I asked the staff if I could stay on the Eurostar and pay the extra, to my surprise they said yes, and wouldn't charge me anything either.
So I travelled into London late last night, got up early - Paddington to South Wales this morning.
I flew to Poland week last Monday for a 2 -3 day business trip........
Home now, exhausted.
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Home.
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Certainly looks to be a LOT more vapour trails than usual in the tent of blue sky I can see from my office this morning.
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