Ridiculous Reason For Flight Delays Right Before Takeoff

Not Following Curfew

Another passenger shared that the pilots broke curfew on his flight from Dubai to London. Or, rather, the whole flight broke curfew. It was so hot in Dubai that a bunch of extra goods had to be removed from the plane to make it safe for flying in that weather.

After this was done, the plane took off and landed at Heathrow at 10 p.m. The workers at the Dubai airport calculated that, since the flight had been delayed, it wouldn’t be possible for all of the passengers and baggage to get off their Emirates 777 plane in time for that plane to depart Heathrow again by 11:30 p.m. Apparently, Heathrow has a “departure curfew” of 11:30, well who knew?

Not Following Curfew

The Dubai crew sent a message requesting that the plane lands at England’s Gatwick Airport instead. Unfortunately the pilot didn’t get that message,

The plane still landed at Heathrow, but no one there was expecting them, so they had to take off again and fly to Gatwick. Another plane, which was having technical difficulties, was blocking the Gatwick runway. What should have been a very brief flight took forty-five minutes as the plane hovered over Gatwick, waiting for the runway to be clear.

A passenger said: “Having arrived an hour late at the right airport, we were now three hours late at the wrong airport,”. We certainly don’t envy anyone on this flight.