Recent content by richard winterbourn

Using cars to drive to Birmingham Airport? I think i fill the category of people who probably do, living in Leominster in rural Herefordshire. However i stopped driving there 20 years ago. Now, in just over two hours i can be inside the airport by using excellent rail facilities. First...

Question that, i hope, someone might be able to answer. I am a very frequent traveller with, currently, in excess of 90 'stamps' in my passport. However, when returning from Bergamo on Monday there was a major change in passport control. In addition to stamping my passport, border security...

Birmingham be proud of a wonderful and so humble Brummie - Karen Carney, who with Carlos Gu won Strictly Come Dancing tonight. I hope the city recognises her achievement and honours her in an appropriate way.

This is a fingers crossed journey... Flights to Faro from Brum on December 27th were too expensive by the time i got round to booking so i'm taking an alternative route. 0925 Bhx to Lisbon arriving at approx 1200, then exit airport and take the meyro to Lisbon Oriente and the inter-city...

Then sir, i am happy to stand corrected. A wonderful humble and multi-talented brummie we can all be proud of....

An equally random comment but which, for me, brings intense pride as someone born in Birmingham but in which i have not lived in now for nigh on 78 years... But i am still intensely proud of my birth city. For the past month or so i have watched and listened to Karen Carney, the celebrated...

The question that needs answering here is: if they arrived at 5.15am for an 8.40am flight, how long did it take them to exit security? Asking the question when with a celular phone call they could also have provided the answer is unfair. Did they queue for 20 minutes, 30 minutes or longer...

Thank you Scottie Dog. I did not appreciate how detailed routings are and, indeed, thank you for your explanation. For me, a seasoned traveller, I do get a lot of pleasure sitting out in front of my barn with a glass of wine and imagining the thrill that young families must be getting as they...

It's not anything that is really important, other understand airline flight paths. Where I live just outside Leominster I have a lot of overflying aircraft, only north-south strangely. But whereas there are flights out of Manchester and Liverpool, a lot of overflying planes originate in...

October seems a long way off, but for those of us who will be visiting Schengen-area countries, we need to start planning... Biometric details, including finger prints will be needed before we will be able to enter Spain, Portugal, Italy and a host of other countries. That is my initial view...

I am quite surprised that Faro is already fully booked on most of the days close to New Year's Eve - and those that still have seats are very expensive. Any heads-up on Ryanair possibly adding extra flights. At the moment it looks as if I will have to fly to Lisbon and then take the train down...

Passed through Brum this morning on my way back to Faro. Seamless through security? Well not quite, my bag was sided onto the check contents line. And the culprit? Cadbury's drinking chocolate powder.... Cadbury's one of our greatest brand names, and in Brum's airport... How galling!

How the general public react to emergency situations generally dictates how it affects them. And, they are easily motivated by idiots on social media. I have little faith in that changing. But as a group with special interest in Birmingham Airport I hope we can gain some confidence in how the...

No-one winds on a day like today: holidays, business trips and the general business of the airport disrupted. But early reports suggest the evacuation and the manner with which the incident occurred, was handled calmly and with professionalism by Birmingham Airport and the mainline emergency...

Seasider, can you message me, I have more info re your visit to Rio de Janeiro.