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I dont have any specialist knowledge other than youtube, but I understand that cargo can be a whole lot more flexible on crewing. For example, it may be easier for them to simply put 4 pilots on the aircraft, 2 of whom would depart Baku (say) and then swap out with the other 2 somewhere...

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Yes - i think i put a review on here at the time. A pleasure, in both directions, and much more convenient for our hotel than Malaga. The only slight faff was that the spanish taxi firm could only collect from the road on the spanish side of the border, meaning a need to walk across an expanse...

Im not sure thats quite right - CWL to ISB is about 3800nm and you can get about a 50 tonne payload off the ground with a takeoff run available of about 2300m. An aircraft at max takeoff weight needs just shy of 2500m at sea level. The b777 is quite good in that regard. But you are completely...

Yes, it may well be. But, as i suggested above, an element of cargo brings in revenue which allows the airport to offer more competitive rates to airlines (in theory, anyway), which eventually results in more pax. The whole point im trying to make is that all of the offers at any airport have...

Well, a bit of both I would say. The important thing for the airport is to make money and, more generally, to support regional growth. You can do that by attracting more passengers, or you can do that by attracting more cargo. It's helpful in this regard that the airport is part publicly owned...

Not quite as simple as that. An A380 needs 3000m to get off the ground when fully loaded - so you could send an A380 anywhere it can reach from BHX now. I cant immediately find a performance calculator, but i suspect an A380 fuelled to Dubai would need something around 2500m, or very close to...

Just back from a week on the Costa Del Sol. Flew in to Gibraltar. 12 minutes from arrival at the airport to complete bag drop and then pass through security at 5am on a Sunday morning. Arrival back yesterday lunchtime also seamless - though we got in before Qatar unloaded their SLF in to the...

I have, many times. Though this is not really comparable, because its woefully inadequate for the amount of people - mainly tourists - who want to use it. And there is absolutely no space to put any escalators in. Of course, there are escalators just down the road at Leicester Square, so why...

Sigh - not this again. If you hadn't removed the escalator, you couldn't have built the new security area at all. The queuing area is where the escalator was. Removing the escalator enables security to be moved substantially, which then frees up space for the upcoming duty free/departure lounge...

My update... Flew to Milan last Monday - arrived at the airport (via air rail link) at 14:09. Hand luggage only. Was standing in duty free at 14:15. Departure lounge was busy, but we were booked in to the lounge. All was going well until, after scanning boarding cards and walking down the air...

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Well - LHR has runways of that length for mainly legacy reasons; when they were built, many aircraft required that extra length. When the third runway was proposed, HAL argued that they needed a 3500m runway so that they could serve all the flights that currently operated on the other two -...

3000m is sufficient to run almost any aircraft, at max take off weight, to almost any feasible destination. There are only a handful of route/aircraft combos that would not be possible, mainly A340 operated. All of the big modern wide bodies (A350/B777/A380) can all get off in 3000m or less...

If Delta do anything from BHX it wont be to MCO. I would expect it to be in to Atlanta, from whence you can get to all of the Floridian airports subject to your specific requirements, with one of many flights to all of them every day. Or, indeed, pretty much anywhere else in the US.

Do you mean the informal entrance near the end of the runway (i.e. here)? If so, its not an official entrance, only an informal path through the trees. The official entrance (i.e. a public right of way) is further down, opposite Elmstead Avenue (about a 5 minute walk from the runway end). Worth...

I dont think its all about raw passenger numbers. And others have noted, Emirates' fair structure is not hugely competitive, you can save a fortune (c.£200 return) flying indirect (with a short stop) to Dubai with other quality carriers, and they therefore snaffled the 'must go to Dubai direct'...

But you've missed the two big problems - airfield capacity and planning. At the moment, stands are BHX's issue - there arent enough places to turn around enough aircraft quickly enough to utilise the runway to its full effectiveness. For the runway to operate at its theoretical max number of...

The plans that were kicking around pre-covid didnt move the northern extent of the apron from its current location (though did include a satellite pier to access the (currently) remote stands). You are correct that the apron was extended to provide more stands by bulldozing some of the car...

That is exactly why - it costs a small fortune to keep in operation. And, at the terminal end, it takes up space that they have in mind for other 'things', principally a further expansion of security. The planning app for the security upgrade shows the rough plan. A sensible approach would've...