For travellers from Amman, the week has not been brilliant so far. Anyone checking the daily British Airways service from the Jordanian capital on Monday at ba.com will have read: “We’re very sorry, this flight scheduled from Amman to London, has been diverted to London.”
All had been going well until the aircraft was overhead Biggin Hill, southeast of the capital. Flight BA313 joined a long queue of aircraft waiting to land at Heathrow, where high winds had more or less halved the usual “flow rate” of arrivals. While successive Emirates flights from Dubai headed off for Gatwick and Birmingham, and American Airlines from New York diverted to Manchester, the Airbus A320 flew circuits for 40 minutes before heading north to Essex – where the giddy passengers endured a couple more loops before landing at Stansted.
