Emirates A380 Double at Glasgow Airport

[@tomflyinghat9122]

Great piece of film well done.

[@martinf1736]

1 380 was a divert from Manchester yesterday

[@ShaunMartin-t8v]

I tracked this on flight path it was circling above my house at about 20000 feet for about 40 minutes because of the runway closure at Manchester then it headed for Glasgow.

[@gordonshields2788]

looks like it was a very efficient job by GLA ops and EK ground staff to get this done GLA does get a lot of stick !!! , but hats off too GLA for a great effort .

[@janethadley9162]

That was great filming Jim you the perspective of how high and plabe actually is I knew it was but not in the perspective as for those air hostesses so elegant but I've got to admit I can't watch their advert I nearly past out when I saw it with that young lady standing where she was thanks Jim enjoy the rest of your day

[@JimRamsayJWR]

Hi Janet, as soon as I saw that plane diverting to Glasgow I jumped into the car as I knew it would go to stand 37 and its as close as you'll get to The Big Beast! I waited about 1.5 hours until passengers and cerw were finally offloaded. I though it may hhadn;tave went straight back to Manchester, perhaps after taking on some fuel. Looks like the flight crew's hours must have expired. We wondered if the flight crew off the inbound Glasgow flight from Dubai (Which didn't circle an airport for 1.5 hours) might have enough time to jump in the seat and take it to Manchester but alas not. I caught the Glasgow flight "Destination Dubai" livery A380 land and as it did the Captain and 1st Officer decanted and it was all over for the Manchester flight! Espensive divert for Emirates!

[@jimbaird4651]

@@JimRamsayJWR Hi Jim. Great filming Mate. I heard on Airliners Live this Morning that this flight was diverting to Glasgow. I was too late finding out to go get ready and get over to see it, Or too Lazy maybe,lol. Even though I live in Erskine. Hope to see some more of Your clips again or come over when Arek is back again and maybe have A chat ? Keep up The Great work, Cheers Jim.

[@nickgolding5786]

Can’t see why it get diverted to birm ,

[@JimRamsayJWR]

@@nickgolding5786 No idea Nick

[@JimRamsayJWR]

@@jimbaird4651 I missed it landing but was lucky to catch them putting a tug on it and pulling it into remote stand 37. Arek?

[@ewanjh71]

Very curious why did they off load everyone on the tarmac and not the gate

[@JimRamsayJWR]

Easy answer to that - Glasgow Airport has 1 A380 Gate - Gate 30 - They had placed another Manchester divert (Aer Lingus A333) onto that stand, which they moved to let the DXB-GLA EK A380 which lands at the end of the VT onto that stand.