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All these planes were circling around London at the same time.

I hope the passengers paid extra for the sight-seeing tour.

Were the groundstaff on strike?

No Sunday lie-in if you live around Chesham.

This is a monumental piece of bad-planning.

Surely flight speeds could have been adjusted somewhere on the flight path to enable the planes to fly straight into Heathrow, yet every plane seems to have to queue up to land.

New York to Heathrow is just under 3,500 miles

Sao Paulo to Heathrow 5,900 miles

New York to Heathrow

Boston to Heathrow

 

 Raleigh-Durham to Heathrow

Chicago to Heathrow 

 Hanoi to Heathrow

 Sao Paulo to Heathrow

 Dubai to Heathrow

 Houston to Heathrow

 Denver to Heathrow

 Houston to Heathrow (Different Flight)

 Seattle to Heathrow

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Murcia to East Midlands

Alicante to Stansted

Alicante to Manchester - Landing

 Alicante to Manchester - Take off

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Leeds to Krakow

Manchester to Munich

Leeds to Rome

Budapest to Birmingham

Yet Zurich to Birmingham comes in from the South

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Alicante to Cardiff

Manchester to Doha

Alicante to Stockholm

Murcia to Leeds

Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse.

Instead of disrupting the country and bringing traffic to a halt, therefore creating additional pollution by lengthening journey times, here is one suggestion that you could focus on to reduce air pollution.

Why not go and blockade Ryanair & Michael O'Leary's office. He has stated recently that Ryanair are the greenest airline. Bollocks to green, he'd be interested in the cost savings from a reduction in fuel costs.

Where I live I am on the flight paths into and out of Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool and as I found out this morning, Doncaster/Sheffield airports.

Why would a flight from DSA need to fly south and then North-West when flying to Faro?
There are many more examples of wasted mileage when looking at flight-paths, but this one seems exceptional. 

I appreciate that planes need to be planned to fly from airport to airport, but why does this flight need to go around Manchester?

I can't see any reason for it not being able to fly south over EMA & BHX, unless it is because it flies over Lord & Lady Snob's mansion.

BHX to FAO doesn't need to go west before flying south, 

But that's just one flight I hear you say.

Economies of scale?