The U.K. doesn't do exit passport control anymore right, aligning with U.S. policy? You don’t have immigration checks to leave the UK, but (and it’s a huge one), for an international flight you have to show your passport and boarding card at the gate. The last time I flew from T5 there were gates w...
Jump to postChristian Hornier apparently in trouble? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/68205305 Any ideas or guesses on what he's supposedly done? Fred Dickpic it seems. Jeez, the guy already has a Spice Girl at home and he's still looking for side chicks? If it was a Dickpic he would have been out of the d...
Jump to postI totally agree that the length of a grounding will not be about politics. The key question in my mind is did Alaska Airlines or one of their contractors open or work on that plug after Boeing delivered the aircraft? The same question applies to the loose bolts found on the United planes. Did Unite...
Jump to postIMO you can rule Spirit out of the investigation, they supply the fuselage complete with doors/plugs to Boeing in green primer, Boeing would have to open the plug to ensure that the top coat of paint flows round into the door frame, thus it would be their responsibility to close the plug once the pa...
Jump to postI can’t comment on how it will go in the UK, but in the US there would be no possibility of getting his job back, and he could be facing prosecution, and jail time. This is not so clear cut, he did not operate and then test positive, he was a passenger. There are steps that could have been taken. U...
Jump to postPreserving airliners is hard in the UK. I feel that part of the problem is that there are no museums capable of storing them. Museums are either to far from major populations or have insufficient public transport. Take Duxford for example, the collection is amazing but quite frankly it's basically ...
Jump to postExter? A'Net joke, a while back someone came up with the idea of closing LHR and replacing it with a new airport at Exeter..... You can guess the response to that idea. As it is, when flying from the US west coast to anywhere other than LHR the BA website already pushes for a connection anywhere bu...
Jump to postYou’re arguing that they just stopped operating because they chose too and you are clearly missing the point entirely. They stopped operating because they had NO choice. American carriers have bankruptcy protection and can continue to operate and carry passengers. Your words said basically “yes but...
Jump to postBack in February 2005, a large fire severely damaged the Windsor Tower in Madrid, Spain and burned for 24 hours. The steel framed section collapsed, while the reinforced concrete section remained standing. The building was undergoing renovation work at the time of the fire and was demolished afterw...
Jump to postI can’t believe how alarmist and ridiculous some of the replies here are. My word! Exactly, such things as tourism will never return, 5 year lock down, summer season is already over, tourism is not important. Who believed that China would be claiming now to essentially be over the pandemic ? Who re...
Jump to postGlove misuse is no different here in the UK, see pople pull up in their car wearing gloves, get out, do their grocery shopping, load it in the car, then drive the car home still wearing the same pair of gloves. As they will carry the shopping into the house (touched with the gloves) thats potentiall...
Jump to postIn the 10 years since he quit the board disagreeing with the expansion programme, both profits and dividends have increased 5 fold. Yet he still says he knows better than the airlines existing management. Yes he had a great idea with Easyjet, his other ventures under the "Easy" label haven...
Jump to postIAG and Virgin are both private companies. Why is one's request for money more valid than the others? SRB may be loathsome, but do you really want the government picking favorites? I would expect you would see governments looking to preserve the jobs and the service. Virgin Atlantic is a private co...
Jump to postBonds trading at 33% of face value: https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/bond/no0010868284-norwegian-air-shuttle-asa-6-375-19-24 The emphasis on here has all been about the share price, in reality the share price has little effect on the performance of a business in the short term, its just the stock ma...
Jump to postLHR must allow flexibility in this current crisis ... forcing airlines to fly ghosts flights or lose your slots is crazy ... https://www.9news.com.au/national/empty-ghost-flights-across-europe-as-coronavirus-turbulence-continues/8b113a3c-5465-4d48-82e2-cb20b1308a53 You need to change your opening w...
Jump to postHopefully the old FlyBE Q400s are leased somewhere near the British Isles because the MRO operation didn't go out of business and needs customers: https://aviationweek.com/mro/flybe-aviation-services-continues-trading-after-airline-collapse Right. So, am I correct: 1) there is an airline that goes ...
Jump to postFrankly, Virgin should buy them and / or set up a sensible link service. I hope they are in the postiion to do so but have no idea whether they have the funds to put it into action. LHR and UK need a strong Virgin to bring diversity to the market. Without Virgin, what would it be like? Can you imag...
Jump to postuta999 wrote:I wonder if credit card companies are holding onto their money yet. That will be the sign of things to come for DY.
If they were remedy slots they will be made available first to anyone who can take over the conditions. If nobody can only then will they either go back to BA or back into the slot pool. I'm not sure that remedy slots are transferable until the original conditions have been met. BA will get them ba...
Jump to postStock down another 13% today, down to NOK 15.85, a new 52-week low. Lowest value since the financial crisis. Now down to 12.77, the quoted February figures were down around 20% on most factors, and we need to bear in mind that Norwegian primarily works in Europe and North America, coronavirus only ...
Jump to postWhat will happen to Flybes Heathrow slots? Back to BA who I believe are the underlying owner. There were mentions that FlyBe is about to become owner of these slots, via grandfathering of sorts. March 1 was mentioned as a cutoff date, but I am not sure; someone more knowledgeable would be able to s...
Jump to postWhat will happen to Flybes Heathrow slots? Back to BA who I believe are the underlying owner. There were mentions that FlyBe is about to become owner of these slots, via grandfathering of sorts. March 1 was mentioned as a cutoff date, but I am not sure; someone more knowledgeable would be able to s...
Jump to postThe BBC news has just shown the maintenance engineers at Exeter wheeling their tool boxes out of the hangar and loading them in their cars.
Jump to postCompany law in England doesn't have the concept of Chapter 11. It does however state that company directors must not trade recklessly (ie carry on running the business as normal when they know a company has no hope of paying its debts, instead of calling in administrators) and they get into a lot o...
Jump to postI don't doubt your general analysis, but Norwegian were only sitting on free cash of around 1 months turnover at Jan 1st. In the worst quarter of the year anyway they would have expected to be in red ink territory until Easter under the best of circumstances, and with the measures already put in pl...
Jump to postNorwegian's financial results for 2019 can be seen here: https://media.uk.norwegian.com/documents/interim-report-2019-q4-93741 For 2019 Norwegian made a loss of NOK1,609. This followed a loss of NOK1,454 in 2018. The report includes a summary of their cash-flow. A quick glance through the report sa...
Jump to postIs there any chance that DY actually go bust this time, are they in a tight cash position? Norwegian's financial results for 2019 can be seen here: https://media.uk.norwegian.com/documents/interim-report-2019-q4-93741 For 2019 Norwegian made a loss of NOK1,609. This followed a loss of NOK1,454 in 2...
Jump to postOoh, another one! People going BELOW the speed limit on a road with a single lane of traffic going my direction, especially when I can't pass them. I get frustrated when I'm stuck behind someone going the speed limit but I can't get mad at them for obeying the rules, but when they're under, I rage ...
Jump to postWhen people say "easy peasy" I want to headbutt them into unconscious. Also when people say "Let's do a time check" which I think is more a UK thing. Don't blame us for "time check" its certainly not a UK phrase As to my pet hates, here's a few Drivers of Audis BMWs an...
Jump to postThis just shows that Britain isn't really capable of getting things done. How many years have they been talking about this only to flip and flop about the issue with endless reviews, committees and so on. The whole country is being held back by a small group of selfish people that decided to go and...
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Broccoli & Stilton
Scotch Broth
Cock a leekie
There's a simple answer to why US cupholders are larger than European ones, because the cups are larger !!!. Especially true of Southern Europe where the coffee of choice is an espresso, rather than a US style Grande latte with caramel syrup you drink your espresso fresh, hot. I'd be surprised if t...
Jump to postThere's a simple answer to why US cupholders are larger than European ones, because the cups are larger !!!.
Especially true of Southern Europe where the coffee of choice is an espresso, rather than a US style Grande latte with caramel syrup
Brilliant! Proof that Brexit really works well for uk What ever has this got to do with Brexit ? Its a local decision made by a local authority planning committee. The airport owners are likely to appeal the decision at which point a government inspector will decide the matter. Very strong chance t...
Jump to postIt appears that the owners will put in more money, should have been doing this in the first place and the Government will "have a look at APD". So basically put more money in yourself and we may do something or go bust... No Government money spent. If Flybe have been allowed to defer APD ...
Jump to postAPD is a tax collected from passengers on behalf of the Govt. Flybe have already had the money, its pure fraud to not hand it over. Unfortunately they operate a rag bag collection of routes that if they did have a chance of being profitable FR or U2 would be there operating them at a far lower cost ...
Jump to postThousands of pro Scottish Independence protesters have marched through Glasgow under poor weather conditions and is is the first of eight that are planned for this year. The first match came in the wake of the general election last month, which saw the pro Scottish independence win 48 out of 59 sea...
Jump to postIn IR655, there were 10 attempts made to contact the aircraft before shooting it down. I wonder how many times Iran tried to contact this flight. Would you try to contact a cruise missile? Coz cruise missiles regularly fly at 400kt... :roll: Yes, that's not far off the speed of a tomahawk As to the...
Jump to postSeriously? Read this thread. From engine malfunction, to stating that even insinuating that it was shot down is an insult to Iran to yeah we did it. One contradiction after another. Pretty much hanging to a slippery rope while the evidence is pulling it up to a point there’s no more bullshit to han...
Jump to postMeanwhile the facts are the opposite, in 72 hours an internal military investigation report determined the accidentally shot the aircraft down. That is exceedingly quick to get a report like that out. .” Exceedingly quick ? Is the military command system in Iran so lax that it takes 3 days for it t...
Jump to postMy two cents, younger people don't think a car is a status symbol, so yes there is room for a basic car and actually a shared car might be the prefered option here. Have a car when needed, but don't have all the cost associated with owning one. Here in the UK its the opposite, in recent years manuf...
Jump to postHaving recently been looking for a newer smallish car, I discovered that quite a number of manufacturers selling in the UK market have introduced low spec basic models. Small standard spec cars from Ford, VW etc tend to have a UK list price of around £15k before discounts etc, they and others now of...
Jump to postThe difference comes down to: WW/ Eurofleet - a long term career choice Mixed fleet - a short term way of seeing the World No one will ever be able to make the Mixed fleet pay rates work in terms of a mortgage, settling down , raising a family etc, whilst the WW rates put staff in a fairly high earn...
Jump to postAs a frequent passenger, I can say that once on board, you can usually tell, without looking at the route allocation, if the crew is WW or MF fleet. For one thing, WW crew are noticeably older than MF crew. WW crew tend to be more relaxed and self-assured in their service delivery. That's not to sa...
Jump to postAre there (m)any smaller airports used by LCCs where pushback isn't done i.e. plane lands, goes to the apron at the terminal, opens doors, stairs wheeled up to plane, passengers deboard, next passengers board, starts engines and then proceeds to the runway under own power without ever having been p...
Jump to postIf only Alaska Airlines were the only offender for ridiculous slogans on aircraft: Remember "4 engines 4 longhaul" and "No way BA-AA" ? These of course were in part a retort to "World's favourite airline" Seemingly marketing departments are allowed to not only dream up ...
Jump to postMy least favourite is "It can't be true it was in the Daily Mail"
Meanwhile my favourite involves building 6 runways at Exeter
Looking at Note 2, I wonder what impact HS2 is going to have, or direct flights from these airports. HS2 will have very little impact on LHR expansion, at present it will connect Birmingham by 2028 which of course has no LHR service, and then Manchester & Leeds by 2035. Anywhere else is just a ...
Jump to postLooking at Note 2, I wonder what impact HS2 is going to have, or direct flights from these airports. HS2 will have very little impact on LHR expansion, at present it will connect Birmingham by 2028 which of course has no LHR service, and then Manchester & Leeds by 2035. Anywhere else is just a ...
Jump to postHappy Holidays pals! Why there are no morning flights from US West Coast to Europe? A flight that could leave LAX at 11:00 AM would arrive LHR next morning at 6:00 AM and that would be a perfect flight for a business traveler. But, there is no airline with a morning flight from anywhere in the West...
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