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    Leeds Bradford Airport £100m Regeneration Programme

    Presumably if the people that really mattered - eg airline bosses, potential passengers etc - had a strong opinion on the cladding and external appearance of the building, the airport would have gone for a more premium product.
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    I didn’t think there were any flights to the Greek islands from LBA at this time of year ?
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    Leeds Bradford - General Thread

    But they are ‘venturing’ down a different route with an appeal hearing scheduled in just a few weeks. Why, having invested all the time and cost of this CLUED process, would they change course now?
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Thanks. So is any of the £100m allocated to airfield infrastructure being invested in moving the touch down zone ?
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    easyJet

    Can you slot sit for just 6 weeks. Surely to protect a slot you would have to operate for the full IATA season. And is GVA sufficiently slot-constrained that EZY would need to undertake slot sitting? They look to have 14 or 15 aircraft based at GVA, so isn't a much more likely explanation...
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    How much of the £200m investment earmarked by the airport is being spent on this ?
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    Dublin Airport (DUB)

    First posted online in February 2015; was taken at Dublin airport
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    I’m a bit baffled why people are giving the reason for aircraft not diverting into LBA ‘as technical’ or related to the runway length. I mean, sure, A380s aren’t coming here for obvious reasons. But 737s, A320s etc - the aircraft that fly in and out every day, it’s bizzare. Meanwhile, the...
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    3mm of slush on the runway following the brief blizzard referred to by WH. Only took about 20-25 mins to brush it off and remove it completely. Aer Lingus was able to hold and land once cleared. Ryanair couldn’t hang around so went to EMA.
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    yes it does. The glideslope antenna is not on the runway, it’s on the grass, about 100m to the side of the runway centreline. Therefore its an issue with the condition of the ground in front of the antenna, not the condition of the runway. If suddenly that ground is 8 inches higher and is...
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    There was a live stream from MAN yesterday morning - available on YouTube. The accumulation of snow was nothing like those at LBA. At MAN, even early yesterday morning, you could still see the grass at the side of the runway and in front of the Glideslope antenna. At LBA the accumulation...
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    It LBA has, for example, 5 to 6 inches more snow than Manchester then there will an an extra 11,000 cubic metres of snow to clear just from the runway, even though MAN’s runway is longer. 11,000 cubic metres is the same as the snow being 5ft high covering a standard football pitch.
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Obviously not. It’s 200m RVR which is right on the limit for Cat 3. The ATR-72 are Cat2 capable, which requires 300m RVR to legally make the approach.
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    2025 predictions for LBA

    Not in the conversations with the people that matter it doesn’t
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    easyJet

    Ah, the WEF. I thought we hadn’t heard a mention of them for at least 24 hours.
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    easyJet

    The point of higher taxes is to raise money. If the motivation was about reducing demand for flying then (a) taxes rises would be higher (b) they would have explicitly linked the tax rise to a targeted reduction in flying and (c) they wouldn’t be talking up airport expansion at places like...
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    Route Development & Rumours

    They have already overruled Newham council’s position on LCY (a Labour council btw), so does that not count as ‘action’
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    Route Development & Rumours

    The Labour government announced very recently they weren’t against airport expansion and one of the first things they did in power was to overrule Newham council with regard to LCY’s passenger cap...
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    A new airport.... South Yorkshire Airport City?

    I must admit that wasn’t my interpretation of the recent written update to the council’s executive board. It said the initial public sector contribution to capitalising the SPV would need to be ‘greater than initially envisaged’ or words to that effect, but I didn’t see anything to suggest...
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    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    What would you have done differently? From the comfort of their armchair, people always seem to rush to their keyboard to criticise, but seldom offer alternatives
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