That is because the wind direction has changed which points to one thinking more planes are landing over Chiswick where you actually had about a week + last week of easterly operations where Chiswick has no planes coming in overhead to land until the wind direction changed and became westerly operations which most likely got people on here thinking planes are all of a sudden getting back to normal in some capacity. Today, for instance, we are back to easterly operations where no planes are coming over Chiswick to land. But they are taking off and in most cases turning hard north over Ealing direction and Windsor is getting the inbound flights. It can switch and change in a short time and in some cases switch back again all in one day. PS. Most planes are either carrying cargo only or are dedicated, cargo operators. Some planes are carrying passengers but not the numbers the press like to dream up and some are landing with passengers and switching flights for other destinations. Some international routes are flying passengers on one plane under multi carriers so you have half a plane full rather than less than 25% full which makes sense.
Julian Pavey ● 2381d