Recent content by Nibbles

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Lets see what pops up in the reasonably near future...! I disagree - the biggest inhibitor to big time growth at the airport is airfield capacity. More stands would help, but the airfield layout still constrains aircraft flow rates significantly. And there isnt a huge...

Yes, there are stairs and you can use them - even if they are not well signposted. Or you could walk to International and get the air rail link back 😁 That said, the 'lifts' aren't your typical dodgy back street car park kind that shake their way up a floor or two. They are huge, easily...

I wouldnt go that far. Interestingly, I've noticed several billboards with adverts for United flights to New York in and around Birmingham city centre in the last few weeks - there is (sometimes) no smoke without fire.

I know of one very strong route rumour (and will be very popular with passengers) just waiting for an email to be sent and subsequently a signature on a page (though cant divulge the details). Knowing Ian's background, i suspect it might be the same one he knows of. We shall see...

I dont have any specialist knowledge other than youtube, but I understand that cargo can be a whole lot more flexible on crewing. For example, it may be easier for them to simply put 4 pilots on the aircraft, 2 of whom would depart Baku (say) and then swap out with the other 2 somewhere...

Top class use of AI... https://www.facebook.com/reel/931305802560456

Yes - i think i put a review on here at the time. A pleasure, in both directions, and much more convenient for our hotel than Malaga. The only slight faff was that the spanish taxi firm could only collect from the road on the spanish side of the border, meaning a need to walk across an expanse...

Im not sure thats quite right - CWL to ISB is about 3800nm and you can get about a 50 tonne payload off the ground with a takeoff run available of about 2300m. An aircraft at max takeoff weight needs just shy of 2500m at sea level. The b777 is quite good in that regard. But you are completely...

Yes, it may well be. But, as i suggested above, an element of cargo brings in revenue which allows the airport to offer more competitive rates to airlines (in theory, anyway), which eventually results in more pax. The whole point im trying to make is that all of the offers at any airport have...

Well, a bit of both I would say. The important thing for the airport is to make money and, more generally, to support regional growth. You can do that by attracting more passengers, or you can do that by attracting more cargo. It's helpful in this regard that the airport is part publicly owned...

Not quite as simple as that. An A380 needs 3000m to get off the ground when fully loaded - so you could send an A380 anywhere it can reach from BHX now. I cant immediately find a performance calculator, but i suspect an A380 fuelled to Dubai would need something around 2500m, or very close to...

Just back from a week on the Costa Del Sol. Flew in to Gibraltar. 12 minutes from arrival at the airport to complete bag drop and then pass through security at 5am on a Sunday morning. Arrival back yesterday lunchtime also seamless - though we got in before Qatar unloaded their SLF in to the...

I have, many times. Though this is not really comparable, because its woefully inadequate for the amount of people - mainly tourists - who want to use it. And there is absolutely no space to put any escalators in. Of course, there are escalators just down the road at Leicester Square, so why...

Sigh - not this again. If you hadn't removed the escalator, you couldn't have built the new security area at all. The queuing area is where the escalator was. Removing the escalator enables security to be moved substantially, which then frees up space for the upcoming duty free/departure lounge...

My update... Flew to Milan last Monday - arrived at the airport (via air rail link) at 14:09. Hand luggage only. Was standing in duty free at 14:15. Departure lounge was busy, but we were booked in to the lounge. All was going well until, after scanning boarding cards and walking down the air...