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Yes wanting to save one to two hours of a journey to another airport once a year (twice if they’re lucky) to go on holiday is really not the justification for spending a now apparent £bns on reopening a failed venture. I suspect a lot of them know this hence they start talking jobs and...

They’re now estimating it to be a cost of £1bn if I read that right? Nothing quite like a bit of news bombing to distract and divert attention is there. What a mess. Just a thought, as I couldn’t read the article (the tool that @radar kindly posted some time ago appears to be stuck in a...

Regurge have issued the following on a Facebook post today. Much as it pains me, I have to agree with this stance. I feel they’ve discovered the Achilles heel of the cabal. Lots of updates over the last 6 months or so have been nothing of substance at all, just more money being spent and ‘lots...

That darts already been blindly thrown.

Crickets on the support page.. Just some tacky AI April fools images keeping the supporters engaged.. I eat my words, he has posted.. Was just about to say, ears must have feel burning.

Can they do that, or is it a move to say that they don’t support the spending so any additional funding requests will be rejected? I’m surprised the Mayor and her team haven’t issued something in anticipation of this, could it be due to the apparent investigation of the Chief Exec? I maintain...

Sounds like this mornings planned (and already delayed) extraordinary audit committee meeting didn’t go too well, least not according to Regurge Doncaster statement on their Facebook page.

Maybe, but they won’t discuss it in public due to the gagging order that’s effectively been imposed. There’s a train of thought that the only part of the agreement that may be renegotiated is the performance targets for 2031 being pushed back to 2036 and a reduction in the number of passengers...

I used DSA a few times as a passenger (a lot of times as a pilot but that’s another matter) and it was a nice experience there’s no denying that. But as we know, it was a nice experience because it was so quiet. I used LPL for work a few years ago and it was also quite a nice experience but I do...

I see that the mechanic has gone crying to the Yorkshire Post again claiming that anyone calling the project a vanity protect has ‘ulterior motives’, but fails to say what these might be. Chadwick would be best placed to understand the definition of a vanity project. The fact that it’s a...

I saw that article, funny how these supposed statements of interest have only made it to a Facebook site that I’d never heard of until now. Anyway, I’m reliably informed that they are unlikely to be interested in DSA for passenger flights. The current situation will not help matters either...

Generally speaking yes. Some might believe it’s difficult to make much ancillary revenue from seat only passengers, however Jet2 are very good at onboard sales. The issue I think is attaining consistent high load factors with seat only flights. May explain why Ryanair and easyJet have got into...

Some humans work weekends managing fares, least they used to! 😉

It’s the latter. Politicians know the importance of ‘running the news’. What they’ve been doing the last few weeks, particularly after the leaked lease details, is announcing anything they can as ‘good news’. People generally aren’t interested in the technical details and so if they hear things...

I was unfortunate enough to catch it on Calendar news earlier including the snippet of Ros Jones trying to string some sentences together and failing miserably to do so. It was very odd, mentioning something about taking off but it was about some people running for charity and nothing to do with...

They’ll presumably say ‘but it’s a different kind of fog’. No, the irony is not lost on me either.

I agree, though I think as the traditional support for domestic routes - those with alternatives that don’t involve journeys on water - has dwindled due various reasons, the numbers don’t seem to stack up any more. Seeing it now with HUY-ABZ having been cut, and I know there are people in the...

They probably do need most of those people to satisfy the mountainous regulatory requirements prior to opening. When Peel were under the process of opening I seem to recall (could be wrong) that they had people from LPL taking up some of the slack. Won’t bother the council though, it’s all tax...

Seems Ros Jones has posted another ‘update’, in other words a narrative control effort. The mechanic has told his followers that this is ‘all the latest information in one place’. The celebration of the ICAO identifier once again being EGCN is… Odd, even for anyone who perhaps doesn’t really...

Job Centre Plus are now advertising the ATCO positions. ‘You too could earn £85,000.00 per year’. Is the assumption here that there isn’t actually a shortage of qualified Air Traffic Controllers, rather there’s a bunch of them currently cashing their gyros every couple of weeks completely...