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It was on Saturday that a British Airways passenger plane landed in Arlanda, leaving 33 passengers, 29 of them Swedes, despite a ban on carrying passengers between the UK and Sweden as a result of the new mutated corona virus in the area. From london.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven declared that British Airways had broken the rules.
– We are now moving to manual control of all aircraft flight plans on the way from the UK to Sweden, says Mikael Andersson, press manager of the Swedish Transport Agency.
Every plane that flies from the UK must leave an itinerary three hours prior to departure. The waybill is sent digitally and is usually not verified further.
After the loss on Saturday, each flight plan will be manually reviewed and if it is not clear enough, the Swedish transport agency will contact the airline.
– This means that we basically work around the clock to do these checks because, although there are not so many passenger flights between the countries, there is also a long list of transport plans.
Mikael Andersson describes the work performing these checks was cumbersome and time consuming, but at the same time it said there was no alternative:
– A boom is a boom too much, this gives us extra security and there should be no more failures.
The decision on the new routines was made on Saturday and went live on Sunday.
The ban on flights from the UK it does not apply to non-passenger flights and British Airways also continues to fly empty planes from Heathrow to Arlanda in order to then carry passengers back to the UK. One of the aircraft that flies empty is British Airways flight BA780, which operates London-Arlanda every day, except certain weekends. BA780 arrived at the Arlanda site on December 27 and is also scheduled to return on December 28, 29 and 30.
