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Well....no, actually. I stopped posting here about a year ago because of the personally insulting and attacking posts being made towards me when I had the audacity to criticise airport management for their poor supervision of third party contractors but I keep checking in now and then to keep...

To be fair, I travel to West London and Reading quite regularly for business and for leisure. IF flights cost in the region of £40, it would be just about comparable with driving or getting the train in terms of overall cost and travel time and I'd definitely consider it. But that's IF the...

I mean....the flights are on sale on their website. 🤷 You'd imagine there will be some unhappy people if it doesn't happen.

I flew back to Leeds from Belfast City yesterday (Thursday) morning on Flybe. Specifically, Marathon's E175. It's a shame they can't keep it honestly. It was a great little plane and Flybe has gone a little way to restoring my faith. I've been back and forth to Belfast quite frequently recently...

I arrived at the airport at 4:30, it is now 4:40 and I am already having a drink airside, so the benefits of fast track cannot be underestimated. I've refrained from making any comment previously on the security debacle as UK airports. I've flown numerous times this year from numerous airports...

I have a flight to Dublin tomorrow morning and obviously I have been watching the variety of news stories about the ongoing carnage through security. I've been trying to avoid the morning rush wherever possible and my general security experiences at those other times of the day have been...

I just want to quickly return to the Belfast flights. As I said, I'm back and forth a fair bit at the moment and I noted that on one of the days I was looking to book in August, there are now EIGHT flights between Leeds and Belfast among the three serving airlines. You'd imagine this was...

I'm currently sitting in Belfast City awaiting my flight to Leeds with Aer Lingus. For a variety of reasons, I'll be travelling between the UK and Ireland/Northern Ireland more regularly in the forthcoming months. When I was booking future flights, my main priority was cost (hence it is usually...

I have no issue with my opinion being challenged - it's a forum at the end of the day. One should expect people to have opposing viewpoints. However, I took an amount of umbrage at the suggestion that my point of view was uninitiated. Even if I had zero experience of anything in life, I don't...

As the "uninitiated" person here, I'd point out that I am speaking FOR and AS the general travelling public. So, of course it is the fault of the airport because that is who is visibly responsible. Will anyone be getting on Swissport's Twitter or Google or TrustPilot? If you're unsure about the...

I think the airport shoulders overall responsibility for the situation. It is an operational issue at LBA. There should be service level agreements and the airport should robustly manage them. To be perfectly honest though, a little bit of common sense wouldn't go amiss. The two flights ahead...

The premium you have to pay for flying to and from Leeds is outrageous, full stop. But I was looking for some flights to Belfast and, needless to say, I won't be travelling with FlyBe considering their high fares and diabolical recent performance. That said, my friend is currently awaiting...

I've decided to log back in after two long years as I've started flying again and used both the Easyjet service and the Flybe service when working in Northern Ireland a few weeks ago. A friend of mine is now looking to visit and is trying to negotiate the current airline carnage. A few weeks...

My apologies by the way - there is a lot of crossover with the Access thread. It started by being related to Flybe - I promise!

I'm going to stand by my statement regarding both the 777X and the MAX, despite Boeing typically trying to prove me wrong just minutes before I offer my sentiments. Recent message releases from Boeing show that there are similar concerns within Boeing about the 777X as the MAX. It's already...

Boris Johnson has a very early opportunity here to make good on what he said following his election victory and cancelling these important projects will simply show him to be a liar and a cad. I don't think he has any choice but approve HS2 and, quite frankly, he will have to find the money...

I genuinely believe that this was a perfect excuse for Ryanair to slash routes and bases and now they have reduced to a single aircraft, it will remain a single aircraft until such time that they no longer operate a base from LBA. It is absolutely no surprise to find that MAN has announced a...

Interesting debate this and I'm going to slightly off topic in my response (SORRY!) before bringing it back to LBA. I have done a fair bit of domestic flying for work in the past year or so across many different routes. One of the routes I seem to be using more regularly at the moment is BHX -...

I wonder whether it would be worth bombarding Wizz Air head office with adverts to fly from LBA?

It's been a little while since I last posted here for a number of reasons. Chiefly, there just wasn't much to talk about. With the announcement of the *new* new terminal, I think it is time a number of things were discussed. Let's start with something positive. I've said for a number of years...