Let's be clear on something here.... The pilot blew a .04 which is coincidentally the legal blood limit for flying in the US. That's not *drunk*. The legal limit to drive in most states of the US is double that at .08. The guy probably had a fun night out before enjoying Edinburgh and hadn't quite ...
Jump to postAmong the more mundane reasons there is always the good old hole in the single runway:
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 09012.html
Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think October 2024 had happened yet.
Jump to postby738 wrote:skipness1E wrote:Air Scotland didn't become a well known brand in it's time
I’m not sure you’re comparing apples with apples.
A two season virtual paper airline with transfers on a wet leased 757?
..... the ET pilots should have never have been put in this scenario in the first place. Exactly. I remember seeing a documentary about the Max in which a (female) aviation safety expert made the simple and obvious point that if the Max had been aerodynamically sound there wouldn't have been any ne...
Jump to postThey seem to be increasingly launching routes that are not strictly holiday ones. Manchester-Prague, London-Rome, Birmingham-Krakow, Leeds-Budapest, etc. I wonder what is the passenger mix in those flights. Jet2 looks increasingly more like easyJet UK and easyJet UK looks more like Jet2. There is n...
Jump to postMy link was to the Scottish edition of the Sun because another poster had asked about photos and I knew it had a photo of the actual incident. For the record I was not endorsing the Sun. I fully understand why people from Liverpool hate it (and for good reason) but that has nothing to do with a phot...
Jump to postSix Britons have been arrested at Schiphol Airport for a fight on board an aircraft. It happened on a KLM flight this morning from Manchester to Amsterdam. https://nos.nl/artikel/2427654-arrestaties-na-knokpartij-aan-boord-klm-vlucht-naar-amsterdam https://mobile.twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/1...
Jump to postAm I correct in thinking that Cityflyer hasn't been affected (or at least not so badly affected) by the IT issues? The EDI-LCY flights seem to have been operating more or less normally despite the meltdown elsewhere. I have to go to London next month and I need to decide between Cityflyer to LCY (my...
Jump to postBA38 captain is said to leave the company under peer pressure, although eventually returned (I wonder if that was under PR pressure). Don't believe everything you read in the UK media. Captain Burkhill took voluntary redundancy thinking (wrongly) that he would walk in to a job with another major ca...
Jump to postAbout 30 years ago I was on a British Airways BAC 1-11-500 landing at Munich Riem which usually required a steep turn on finals. As we levelled after the turn I looked out of the window and noticed a small hatch on the wing had opened and a brownish fluid was running out. I wondered if it was hydrau...
Jump to postThere is no shortage of fuel. One company had a local supply glitch affecting a small number of filling stations. Hysterical media hype and idiotic behaviour ensured that it became a national issue. I have seen a suggestion that a so-called "whistleblower" in the fuel industry leaked the s...
Jump to postI wonder if CityJet could see an opportunity to pick up the pilots and lease some cheap ATR aircraft and bid for the franchise? Perhaps their finances would kibosh any ideas of this though. Awful time for the crew and other workers of Stobart Air! Isn't CityJet in the Irish equivalent of Chapter 11?
Jump to postFor what it's worth all the Aer Lingus Regional flights at BHD are showing as cancelled - EDI, MAN, EMA, EXT, BHX, LBA Loganair are offering rescue fares for £60 including baggage for customers out of Belfast, according to their Twitter. You need to call 0344 800 2855 to make the booking and have t...
Jump to postFor what it's worth all the Aer Lingus Regional flights at BHD are showing as cancelled - EDI, MAN, EMA, EXT, BHX, LBA Loganair are offering rescue fares for £60 including baggage for customers out of Belfast, according to their Twitter. You need to call 0344 800 2855 to make the booking and have t...
Jump to postFor what it's worth all the Aer Lingus Regional flights at BHD are showing as cancelled - EDI, MAN, EMA, EXT, BHX, LBA
Jump to postMy own guess, based on that, is that Easyjets chances to prevail are slim and that they will take the fine, change their practices and agree to add discrimination to forthcoming training sessions for all employees. The issue here isn't so much that Easyjet or its staff discriminated, more that they...
Jump to postExactly. Just because *he* has chosen not to leave the Bronze Age, doesn't make it anyone else's problem! As I understand the situation this is a case of religious freedom, the reason for not seating them together was not one of gender, it was due to religious beliefs. It is totally unacceptable fo...
Jump to posthttps://simpleflying.com/easyjet-sued-passenger-moved/ Good luck to her. I'm a regular Easyjet passenger and a big fan but it's the 21st century and they should have had a clear policy on this sort of nonsense (if you don't want a woman sitting next to you, get off the aircraft) instead of apparent...
Jump to postPerhaps if they insisted that their contracted staff never use the phrase "well we don't work for FlyBE so you'll have to take it up with them directly" they might not be in that position? On a single SOU > MAN flight last year I must have heard that comment more than 20 times and there w...
Jump to postLet's rephrase their question. Who do you think the leasing company will re-lease these aircraft after they repossess them from Thomas Cook? Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk the Coca Cola Company? I mean, which airline seriously needs these old 757, 767 planes? Gesendet von meinem SM-G950F mit Tap...
Jump to postThere are thousands of workers across the group that have just been made redundant with immediate effect. It's not their fault the group's finances were in a mess for a number of years now and it's not their fault both the current and former senior management team didn't do enough to turn things ar...
Jump to postkjeld0d wrote:schech wrote:Thankfully they managed to remove the chassis
Remove the chassis?
Looking at this article, the author says that EasyJet has always been an Airbus operator. EasyJet started as a Boeing operator (737-300 and 737-700). The potential destinations which are mentioned are nice but a business case will determine if any of those routes are interesting, not just the range...
Jump to postIf the Scottish government gets back the £1 they paid for it they should consider themselves lucky. Whatever its historic importance, Prestwick today is a white elephant. Not being a fan of the current Scottish government I can't help wondering if the decision to keep it open had anything to do with...
Jump to postSorry but 1 April has passed
The complete answer to this idiocy is in four characters - QF32
leghorn wrote:The ruling will be appealed to a higher court. This judge just got the case off his desk.
upperdeckfan wrote:Curious to read that cabin crew "also became stressed at certain point"
BTW, does anyone have the reg, # of this aircraft?
https://www.unilad.co.uk/featured/woman ... t2-flight/
Jump to postThere has been a thread for the last eight hours. I don't think we need a second one.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1418719
So all the passengers were able to get on an airplane to EDI with tickets to DUS? Where did their bags go? Isn't there a major security issue here? Er, no. Haven't you read the thread? This was a flight which was supposed to go to DUS but due to an error, as yet unspecified, the pilots filed a flig...
Jump to postDid the crew not make a PA call, "welcome on board this flight to EDI", at which point the pax might have noticed "that's nowhere near Dusseldorf". Something just doesn't add up. It's nothing to do with being an aircraft enthusiast; even with complete cloud cover, you would sens...
Jump to postWhat I find more surprising is that to the best of my knowledge the leased WDL 146 is dedicated to the DUS route (plus the odd France flight on weekends), just like before the leased-in Eastern E70 was used on that route. So alarm bells should have rung in the cockpit when they got the flight plan ...
Jump to postI've flown LCY-EDI countless times and I've flown LCY-DUS once or twice. If I'd been flying to DUS I think I would have noticed if we hadn't started to cross the North Sea! I don't ever remember being on a flight where the cabin crew haven't welcomed the passengers on board "our flight to xyz a...
Jump to postAs a long time user of Edinburgh Airport I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand we all want more flights and I want to see my local airport prosper. On the other hand the place is shambolic enough at the moment without even more flights and passengers. Many of the problems at EDI are due ...
Jump to postTo the best of my knowledge this is the first time this issue has been litigated in a British court. If there is a legal precedent anywhere else it's most likely to be in America. Does anyone know if there has been such a case in the USA or another country?
Jump to postEDI is my local airport and I wasn't aware this is happening. If an aviation fan like me doesn't know, there's something wrong with the publicity.
Jump to postI One serious problem with this loss was how the pilots tried to get to BOS instead of just getting to the airport in Halifax. After this pilots were trained or retrained to go to the nearest suitable airport, not just what they think is. I thought that myth had been laid to rest a long time ago. T...
Jump to postI love my cat to bits and hate to leave her. Can I claim her as an "emotional support animal" and take her flying or do you have to be American to do that?
Jump to postThe take off from DUS is also very entertaining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEQf7O ... gs=pl%2Cwn
It helps to illustrate the lunacy of the current UK government - if any further illustration is needed - that one of their no deal "technical notices" issued this week advised the use of air freight (particularly of medicines) to get round the possibility of blockages at the sea ports
Jump to postHow about posting a source. Otherwise, the flight could have been delayed due to a MX issue or some other issue. Not really fair to accuse someone of something and not be able to provide a source. Hear, hear. There is nothing showing about this in any mainstream Scottish news outlet. If the source ...
Jump to postWould 20 tourists be allowed on a 75 year old vintage aircraft in the UK? I think not. Allowed to fly through a mountain range? Probably not. Accident avoidable. Probably. D-AQUI has certainly flown in the UK. I know because I flew on her on a trip over some fairly mountainous territory in Scotland...
Jump to postbluefltspecial wrote:a320fan wrote:They should take a page out of Canberra Airports play book and just park a car behind their aircraft so it can't be moved until it's paid.
I hadn't heard about this, but that's brilliant.
Flybe's reliability has always been an issue (I speak from past personal experience) although it seems to have improved recently and is now merely a bit below average rather than shockingly bad as it used to be. I have a perception that the routes with the fewest cancellations are those on which the...
Jump to postGreat move by BA as it will stop idiots unnecessarily reclining their seats on 40 minute flights. Hear, hear. I absolutely fail to understand why people feel the need to recline their seats on board an aircraft when they wouldn't expect to do so on a train journey of similar length. I'm not a regul...
Jump to postAs a Brit who has never owned, fired or wished to own or fire a gun of any description I would be interested in an explanation of the view apparently held by a lot of Americans that the way to deal with gun crime is to give even more people guns. I'm sure that following the most recent tragedy I hea...
Jump to postBBC is forecasting very little snow, MetOffice is saying lots of snow with weather warnings for Mon-Weds. This is for Redhill Aerodrome / RH1, a couple of miles North of Gatwick. The BBC recently ended its contract with the Met Office which had run for 93(!) years. I believe their forecasts are now...
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