Ryanair plane lands in Alicante, Spain after Ryanair flight 2955 was forced through two diversions on Saturday, October 24. The Dublin-to-Bristol service touched down at 2:15 AM local time after severe weather stopped the landing attempt in England.
Passengers spent around eight hours in the air before the Boeing 737-800 reached Alicante, more than 1,000 miles from the route it had set out to fly. The aircraft had already been diverted once earlier in the journey, when weather pushed it away from Cornwall Newquay Airport and back to Dublin Airport.
Alicante return after Bristol abort
The flight left Dublin for Bristol International Airport on Saturday, climbed to 27,000 feet, and then aborted its approach after severe weather. It entered a holding pattern over the English Channel before the crew sent it to Alicante, where the aircraft touched down at 2:15 AM local time.
That choice sent the plane back to its home base instead of a closer airport in the United Kingdom. For passengers expecting to end the journey in Bristol and then continue by bus to Newquay, the final diversion replaced a short transfer with a return to Spain.
Storm Boelo and the earlier diversion
Before Saturday, the same Boeing 737-800 had flown from Alicante to Newquay but weather forced it to divert to Dublin. Storm Boelo was the weather system tied to that earlier disruption, and the aircraft later resumed the route from Dublin to Bristol.
The route therefore ran in reverse of the plan passengers had been given. Instead of landing in Bristol and continuing overland, the aircraft ended up more than 910 miles away from Bristol International Airport and 1,465 km from the intended destination area.
Passengers and next travel
Ryanair flight 2955 carried passengers through two separate diversions on a single trip, a disruption that began before Saturday and ended only after the overnight landing in Alicante. The source says passengers were to be transported to Newquay by bus after the Bristol arrival plan, but the final landing in Spain changed the journey’s next step.
What passengers faced next was road transport from Alicante rather than the original bus transfer from Bristol, because the aircraft ended the night back at its home base. The schedule disruption now sits with the airline’s own repositioning of the plane and the passengers who were left to continue their trip from Spain.
