Recent content by Tarn Spotter

It's time to attach the blame firmly where it belongs, the owners of the airport. You don't plan recovery from the day it's due to start, you plan from shut down and evaluate various recovery situations, until a clear picture is established. Airports knew they had paid badly, had unsocial...

My son the Funeral Director has a young son with serious lung and chest issues, 10 days ago he left his wife and 3 children to live on his own, all ready dealing with deceased who have contacted this awful disease . I hold an Open Operating transport licence (including hazardous goods), I can...

In In my defence, my warehouse and transport business at the moment working flat out delivery vital NHS equipment and PPE equipment as we have done for decades. In addition its working 24/7 to supply supermarkets with food from the manufacturers we work for. My son is a Funeral Director, his...

When you see today's world map of air pollution levels and compare it to 3 months ago, a huge change for the good, especially in China. It's thought already 100000 deaths have been delayed due to air pollution and rising a reason to cheer. The University of Leeds study showing that 15% of U.K...

Cash is king, a printed balance sheet showing millions of asset value, just worthless paper. I can remember in the 2008 financial crash having my annual bank meeting, been shown a figure of the amount this bank director had to reduce his overdraft book, basically telling me I would be lucky to...

Not sure this will be the case. In 3 months time the vast majority of workers will have used all their company sick pay, and drawn down their 20/21 holiday pay. Unless they are prepared to take an unpaid leave, no holidays. The unknown is seat prices and the positive effect of planes being...

Glad I did not put Sir Geoffrey forward as an airport name, Best may have loved the bottle, but he is still the greatest footballer I have seen in my life time, when Messi was 18 I thought he would be the best i had ever seen, great as he has become, he cant hold a candle to Best, excluding goal...

Surely we want control, whatever the price. The cosy relationship between the FAA and Boeing has led to a least two preventable crashes and questions about the relationship between EASA and Airbus are now being raised. Money should never be the bench mark for any decision where safety is vital...

I hope in Wednesdays budget the chancellor will look at the PSO E.U. rules and come up with a U.K. version that is attractive to all operators, keeping APD at nil but a set price by route, with agreed state aid. The present rules dont get the result we need and the airlines can play ducks and...

Norwegian was on the list of 6 airlines MOL predicted at the 2018 AGM would not be flying by the end of 2019, he was right with the other 5. At his press conference in November 2019 he was reminded of his prediction, this time by the national press, added another 6 months and on Sky news last...

How about naming after the great Sir Len Hutton, Born in Fulneck, Pudsey a true Yorkshireman.

This is an extract from my local paper, re Flybe. "The airline operated routes from Leeds Bradford Airport and had planned to run 2,500 flights a week from there during the summer of 2020" 357 flights a day I suggest above the normal daily movements from the airport. The paper normally prints...

Easyjet is offering £65 on Flybe routes flown by the company to the end of May and free travel for Flybe staff today and tomorrow. Ryanair is offering £19.99 flights on 5 U.K. Routes, to be booked by midnight sunday, until the end of April

Recent figures showing that 49% of flights made by males in the age group 18-35 are to stag do's, and 37% for females attending Hen do's, cant make good reading for all airlines. Same survey showed Stag and Hen flights down 15% year on year and likely to fall dramatically as this age group show...

As a seat only customer, having never bought a package holiday, Thomsons used to treat SO customer very badly, I have put up a thread of how my tickets were removed from me at Malaga years ago, due to incompetent admin, at the arrival airport they would ignore you if you were a SO passenger and...