Plane Answers: Turbulence causing aircraft to break apart and London holding patterns.

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6-10-2009 @ 10:00AM

nzm said...

Oh yeah – LHR is SHOCKING for holding patterns. The worst that I’ve ever experienced coming into Heathrow was on NZ2 - a 747 Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, NZ.

We had been in the air for 22 hours with a stop in LAX where we were herded into an uncomfortable transit lounge for an hour before continuing. Plus, we have to clear US immigration entering the lounge and before leaving it to re-board the aircraft. Don’t ask me why!

http://www.airnewzealand.eu/before-you-fly/international-travel/transiting-via-la.htm

In this report is an image of the terrific LAX lounge:
http://www.onewaynewzealand.com/blogentry.asp?id=133

You can’t even see out of it!

Anyway, we arrived over London and were placed in a holding pattern. Same deal as Malaycobra – round and round in circles with nothing to see as London in covered in thick cloud. This went on for 40 mins with little jolts and bumps as we flew through cloud or other planes’ wakes.

All we wanted to do was get.off.the.*******.aircraft!

cheers
Michele

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