Future Infrastructure Developments

[LBA787]

Repair work on a large crack in the concrete. Until it was completed the taxiway was closed.

:crazy:

 

[Aviador]

The long awaited airside smoking area has opened at a cost of £2 per go. (built on the side on the terminal)

 

[a300boy]

Sound like another PR disaster to me !!

 

[Aviador]

Sound like another PR disaster to me !!

I'm not totally sure what you mean but I guess at £2 a go there is a chance it will upset more customers than it pleases, especially when aircraft are delayed.

 

[lbaspotter]

Sorry but I don't agree at all with it been another P.R disaster. As I've got no simpthy for smokers. So carry on smoking because as long as you do so you'll keep taxes low and risk your lives.

Also why should my £2 drop off/pick up fee contribute towards paying for smokers area to be built when I'm a non smoker?

 

[a300boy]

I hate smoking too but what we like or dont is irrelevant The smokers will not be happy !

 

[48vanman]

Well my partner will be chuffed that they can enjoy a ciggie before a flight from LBA in future.I think smokers will pay the £2 without a quibble as they will be that desperate for a cig.

Is it outside the terminal?.Is it £2 to get into smoking area,can't smokers stay in there till their flight called if they want to?.

Being an ex smoker for 18 months myself,I will happily prop the bar up whilst my partner smokes themself stupid.

 

[lbia]

It's a tin metal shed!

Customer feedback said they wanted a smoking area so they have built one. I am not a smoker so it has no benefit to me, but passengers will definitely use it. In the past when there has been a delay it's been the airline/handling agent's job to escort any smokers back through immigration, back to check in where they can have a smoke and then back through security. This was far from ideal as it wasted a lot of manpower and caused a nightmare for staff as passengers on flights that were not delayed also wanted to come back for a smoke.

If passengers were not escorted round they gave off the usual 'it's my human rights to smoke' bullshi** so I for one am very glad there is a place for them to go. £2 is nothing to a smoker needing a nicotine rush!

 

[Seasider]

I, also a non smoker, think that the airport is quite fair in charging for a smoking area. It has cost to build so they have to recoup it somehow.
I am amazed that smokers can last up to 5 hours without a cigarette (check-in, flight, baggage claim) but have to go outside for a smoke every hour when they are at work.

 

[rmac]

Aircraft parking stands:
Other threads have repeatedly mentioned the need for extra stands for overnight parking to encourage greater expansion from based airlines. Where would these new stands be located? Would no25 be next to no24 or does the proximity of the taxiway rule this out? Also the buildings on the 'old' apron -are they temporary and if removed could that open up stands 2 & 4?

 

[User0001]

The airport are tendering for an Airport Operational Database at an expected cost of £1.2m. The software will feed the live arrival / departure information among other things. If you want to bid for the business, you have until 16.12

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Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBIA) is looking for a suitable supplier to provide an AODB system providing the functionality to support FIDS and ATC Movements, Aeronautical Billing, Movement Scheduling and Administration, Dynamic Digital Display and Signage, Resource Management Scheduling (RMS) and Systems Integration and Performance. Further details of LBIA's requirements are set out in the procurement documents, which can be obtained from the contact point at I.1).
In addition to the above, the successful bidder will provide Professional Services (Project Control, Reaction Support Services, Call Escalation and Call Management, Charges and Payments, and Reporting) on a 24 (hours a day) x 7 (days a week) x 365 (days a year) basis for the term of the agreement and their costs will comprise Annual Licence and Support fees, which will include a software assurance programme for the delivered system and its functionality.

 

[Aviador]

Thanks LS16

The 2020 system has been running for years now any it needs replacing. I am sure a better system is available now and I am sure it will be significantly better than the 2020 system.

 

[Seasider]

I have been following the discussion on the ability of the airport to expand with great interest. I hope that I am correct in posting my question in this thread.
Is there any possibilty of expanding the apron up to taxiway November(the old 10/28 runway) thus creating more space near the Terminal?

 

[White Heather]

That will depend on how far the apron extension would be from the main runway. There a minimum distances to be maintained, for obvious reasons. The distance of the apron extensions towards the Eastern end was the reason that runway 28 closed in the first place. Nothing can be built that goes beyond the safe distance from runway 14/32. Sorry, I don't know what that distance is but the CAA will do!

 

[radar]

It's all in Chapter 3 of CAP 168, if you're very bored:

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP168.PDF

 

[Seasider]

Looking at the Airfield chart on LBASpotters website, you should be able to use Taxiway November, east of holding point November 1. That is further from 14/32 than the apron in front of the Terminal. (sorry radar, can't be bothered to read the caa docs)

 

[airforced]

White Heather I notice that earlier in the day, on the Thomson thread, you referred once again to the next Masterplan.

With your insider knowledge do you think that the much referred to next Masterplan will contain implementation dates, as when I wrote to the MD in 2012 I think, following your suggestion that I should do so, he assured me in his reply that the "ornamental" (my words not his) escalator would be sorted in the next phase of redevelopment?

With this in mind and not wishing to harp on about it again now, it would be nice to see an outcome on the horizon.

When is the Masterplan due to be published by the way?

 

[User0001]

Re: Infrastructure Developments

[textarea]Clear for takeoff as airport gets the go ahead for expansion.[/textarea]

Finally common sense prevails and the airport can at last expand to provide the facilities that the Leeds City Region deserves. Passengers travelling through the airport this summer can at least look forward to the more specious facilities ready for around the beginning of summer 2011.

Cheers Bridgepoint :s_rofl

 

[LBA787]

LUFC PETE enough please! Your just flogging a dead horse now... I and many others have the same views as you and want to see a prospering airport build for the Yorkshire region. I'm afraid your constant negative views are not helping at all and will not speed up bridgepoint one bit....

It's Christmas be happy....

:whiteflag:

:crazy:

 

[Aviador]

I agree. It's pointless going on and on about it because it clearly isn't going to make things happen any quicker. I don't know whether or not the airport has a proper Public Relations department these days but the silence from the airport is deafening at the moment so far as expansion goes and it only seems to fuel the negative internet noise. Some clever PR detailing what's happening or even what's not happening would surely be beneficial to the airport. At least people would stop scratching their heads wondering what's going on.