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Someone from LS Ops might have an idea which is doing what from where, provided such a person is on FFA. I have to say putting the -300s through Luton wouldn't be very wise, given their increasingly erratic reliability. At least the facilities and capabilities are at hand at LBA for these senior...

Probably their Cessna 421, G-BRIT.

Way back when Britannia Airways operated W patterns through LBA and other regional airports (1970s and 1980s) almost all the aircraft and crews were based at Luton and were moved around by road. So, the concept isn't a new one but the main change now from 40-50 years ago is the increased road...

I wonder if a Jet2 aircraft has to park on a taxiway to make room for it?

I shall be the one to ask if there is any substantial basis to all the exponential easyJet talk? Is there? I do hope so but I've learned about cautious optimism, if not cynicism, over many years in the civil aviation industry.

A lot can change in 54 years. Bristol now streets ahead of Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow once equal. However, the relationship between Newcastle, Liverpool , Leeds Bradford and East Midlands is much the same.

Reading a copy of I-Spy At The Airport, published in 1970. Here is a selection of annual passenger numbers from, I can only guess, 1969. Leeds Bradford 311,000 East Midlands 290,000 Newcastle 356,000 Bristol 130,000 Cardiff 156,000 Blackpool 149,000 Liverpool 454,000 Birmingham...

It was!

The runway extension is 40 years old today.

The runway extension will be forty years old in just over a fortnight.

Both additional leisure and business routes are all good. My point is avoiding overkill on the likes of Palma, Malaga and Alicante.

Ljubljana, Pula, Corsica, Bari, Rijeka. Anywhere not served by Ryanair, TUI or Jet2.

Hawk inbound for ILS approach RW14. Might be heard rather than seen. Cloud overcast at 100 feet.

Thankyou radar. I was hoping you would come in at some point. As I recall Manchester replaced their Schmid system with Frequentis at roughly the same time as LBA did likewise. Perhaps they've changed again since that time. Anyway, whatever they use, I stand by my assertion that their RT quality...

A very fair point but I promise it is the same few controllers plus the same issues every time. I suspect these are things that pilots won't necessarily notice if they are wearing a headset in the cockpit as the sound is directed straight to their ears but a loudspeaker makes them more...

Nowt wrong at my end, be assured. I've been listening to the airbands for over forty years and I know when something isn't right. Plus, just a few weeks ago, I telephoned the Tower controller on night shift (I was at work too) to inform him his transmissions on UHF were virtually unreadable...

I appreciate the information quik. But my point here is that the transmissions from some controllers are what I would describe as sub-par and across all LBA frequencies, which suggests something wrong with individual microphones or speech technique, e.g. speaking too close to the microphone...

Problem started when 123.75 was replaced by 125 or 133 something. New aerials on the Tower at about the same time. On a separate note, I think 'Works 16' need a new radio. It sounds like someone is playing a washboard in the background! Furthermore, there's at least three ATCOs who could do...

I heard that too. It was surprisingly loud.

Why don't folk just call it PPRUNE instead of Dried Fruit ?