Thomson Flight Diverts For Sick Passenger
A Thomson Airways flight diverted to the island with a sick passenger tonight [Feb 3] landing at the LF Wade International at approximately 9.15pm.
Thomson flight #31 was on its way from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic to the London Gatwick Airport when it diverted to Bermuda and was met at the airport by emergency services.
The passenger was transferred from the aircraft into an ambulance and transported to King Edward Memorial Hospital for treatment. After taking on fuel, the flight continued on to its destination at approximately 11.20pm.
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Unfortunately we have another flight having to divert to the Island due to ailment of a passenger
But tell us why can’t the Government (former and present) get some of these unknown flights that fly overhead (daily) stop off here to allow people to visit us also?
I vividly recall when British Airways landed here and continued on to the Bahamas as well as Jamaica and ending in Panama…We still can book flights from England to the all other places throughout the Caribbean so please Minister Shawn Crockwell / One Bermuda Alliance get on with reintroducing the old British Airways flights, as well as new Airlines.(B.A. presently have us by the short and “curly” and are able to charge an absorbent price to fly to Europe etc.)
BDA is too expensive for the average tourist!! That is why all these flights go to other islands!!
Oh Ray! I’m sure you mean well but the reason these flights don’t stop here is because ‘here’ is not where these people wish to go.
The flights of yesteryear were tolerated because people were still used to the limited range of the older airliners and accepted stopovers as the norm.
If I wanted to I could fly from London to Sydney direct so why would I tolerate a stop off in Dubai?
Now as to why there isn’t more demand to stop ‘here’ we need to realize that other places have always been as attractive as Bermuda is for a vacation but are now far more developed and able to offer an economy of scale that Bermuda never will.
We had a head start in ‘fly in’ tourism thanks to our jet capable airport gratis the USA. We made very good use of this head start and built up to the fever pitch late 70′s early 80′s numbers – but – just like the early 2000′s were the peak of IB – we will never see this reoccur and it’s not even totally our fault. It just is.