{"id":25847,"date":"2022-08-16T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=25847"},"modified":"2022-08-16T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:45:21","slug":"united-airlines-flight-diverted-to-iceland-after-crew-timeout-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/united-airlines-flight-diverted-to-iceland-after-crew-timeout-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines flight diverted to Iceland after crew timeout| Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>United Airlines was forced to divert a Newark-bound flight from Athens, Greece to Iceland because the pilots and flight attendants \u2018 time out after a lengthy delay in Greece<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Once on land in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Icelandic_language#:~:text=Icelandic%20(%2Fa%C9%AAs%CB%88l,it%20is%20the%20national%20language.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Icelandic <\/a>capital Reykjav\u00edk, a new crew of pilots and flight attendants took over and after a further three-hour delay, the flight eventually took off for Newark again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-united-airlines-flight-ua125\">United Airlines flight UA125 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1053474344-740x710-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1053474344-740x710-1.jpg 740w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1053474344-740x710-1-600x576.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1053474344-740x710-1-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption><strong>United Airlines | Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The unexpected diversion occurred on Sunday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.united.com\/en\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Airlines flight UA125<\/a> from Athens to Newark was delayed on land in Greece by approximately 5 hours for an unrelated issue which meant that the crew didn\u2019t have enough hours to fly to Newark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The maximum number of hours that pilots and flight attendants are allowed to work is operated by a system called \u2018flight time limitations\u2019 which is designed to prevent aircrew from operating when fatigued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>With the average flight time from Athens to Newark stretching to almost ten hours, the long delay on the ground pushed the pilots and flight attendants beyond the maximum FTL threshold.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crew timed out?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H9bcuSrCDV\">pic.twitter.com\/H9bcuSrCDV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; metshomeruns (@themetshomeruns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themetshomeruns\/status\/1558912980015882242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>United had limited options \u2013 either send the crew to a hotel for rest and try again the next day or despatch the flight but with a stopover for a crew change. United opted for the latter possibility, positioning a completely new set of the crew from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.united.com\/en\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States<\/a> to meet the flight in Iceland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also, read    <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/six-flights-from-the-middle-east-bound-for-the-kozhikode-airport-diverted-to-kochi-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Six flights from the middle-east bound for the Kozhikode Airport diverted to Kochi | Exclusive<\/a>    <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/19\/karnataka-government-break-buildings-taller-than-45m-near-jakkur-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karnataka Government: Break buildings taller than 45m near Jakkur airport<\/a>    <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/vistara-announce-to-start-operating-on-the-mumbai-jeddah-route\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vistara announces to start operating on the Mumbai-Jeddah route<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>However, not everyone on the flight was pleased to apply United\u2019s decision. On Twitter, one passenger stated, \u201cone stupid decision after another got us from Athens to a small airport in Reykjavik with no infrastructure to help this flight\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another described the delay in Iceland as a \u201ctotal mess\u201d after United had initially stated the diversion would result in just a \u201cquick stop\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1756848032-scaled-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Although the diversion made for a very long trip for the passengers aboard UA125, the only other option would have been an even longer delay in Athens so that the original crew could get some much-needed rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stay updated with aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join our Telegram group for the latest updates<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines was forced to divert a Newark-bound flight from Athens, Greece to Iceland because the pilots and flight attendants \u2018 time out after a lengthy delay in Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[392,79,2030,393,1807,5284,81,178,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-25847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-airlines-news","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-aviation-a2z-news","11":"tag-aviation-news","12":"tag-crew","13":"tag-iceland","14":"tag-latest-aviation-news","15":"tag-united-airlines","16":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25856,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions\/25856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}