Featured Map for 27 March 2019:
East by Northwest

Monday morning's British Airways flight from London City Airport to Düsseldorf (BA 3271), operated by WSL Aviation using a BAe 146-200, ended up flying to Edinburgh instead. Somehow, the flight was planned to Scotland's capital so neither the pilots nor cabin crew were surprised (unlike the passengers), nor was there any safety risk, nor nefarious characters as in Alfred Hitchcock's classic film North by Northwest. After refueling, the flight continued to the passengers' expected destination in Germany.

Today's Featured Map shows the scheduled route of this flight in grey, along with its circuitous route via Scotland in red. Hopefully the passengers received frequent flier credits for the extra distance flown!

References and additional information:

• British Airways flight was supposed to go to Germany. It went to Scotland. – CNN Travel (26 March 2019)
• British Airways
• WDL Aviation
• D-AMGL WDL Aviation British Aerospace 146-200 – Planespotters.net
• FlightAware
  • D-AMGL (CFE3271) Operating as Cityflyer Express 3271 LCY-DUS on 25-MAR-2019 (Diverted)
  • D-AMGL (CFE3271) Operating as Cityflyer Express 3271 LCY-EDI on 25-MAR-2019
• North by Northwest – IMDb