Why Do Thomson Airlines Go Via Dublin To Gran Canaria From East Midlands ?

YG55 | 14:13 Sun 06th Aug 2017 | Travel

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Asking for a relative ... when he flies from East Midlands Airport to Gran Canaria, why do Thomson go via Dublin without even landing there ?

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webbo3

How can they be going via when they dont land , are they just flying over it.

Tilly2

Do you mean that the plane flies over Dublin?

Tilly2

It must be something to do with the curve of the earth. It's the same when you go to Canada from Heathrow. The plane flies out over Scotland , Iceland and Greenland.

YG55

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Yes, it flies over but doesn't land so it seems pointless going on a detour over Dublin.

albaqwerty

may I ask how he knows they fly over Dublin before I go and do a search?

YG55

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I don't think it's the curve thing cos it's too close.

YG55

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He follows the route on the screen on the seats in the plane lol

Tilly2

I suppose you would expect the planes to fly due South but they don't.

malagabob

It just depends where the aircraft is routed. I've noticed flights from Cardiff flying out over the Irish Sea and over Sothern Ireland before flying South. I've even been on a flight to Tenerife out of Bristol and the aircraft has flown way out past Lands End. Normal route is over Exeter.

Tilly2

Actually Gran Canaria is to the south west of the UK, as is Dublin.

Tilly2

...from East Midlands.

albaqwerty

http://www.awsw.co.uk/allco2/EMA_co2.html

cor, takes forever to load, it's from 2011 and something to do with emissions and load of cargo/passengers.

Tilly2

I'm sure that airlines don't fly their planes over unnecessary routes.

Prudie

What a funny question, if you look at flightradar you'll see that planes have to follow an invisibey road map in the sky, they will often be in a line one after the other. They can't just take off and point. The route will depend on weather too, I'm sure they don't always fly over Dublin.
Flights to US and Canada from London will often go up and over Scotland or sometimes they fly right over my house in Dorset. All to do with which way air traffic control tells them.

-SharonA-

On a flight to Jamaica once we flew over Iceland and it was a Thomson flight.

YG55

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Thanks everyone. Yes i agree it's a daft question and i have asked him why it matters but he is a bit of a witterer.

237SJ

I can't see why aircraft would go miles out of their way unless it was to avoid bad weather as it costs too much money in fuel. There are beacons that aircraft lock onto which is why you see a curve in the contrails in the sky but not as far as Dublin from East Mid airport.