Birmingham Airport - General Thread

[Ray Finkle]

It appears to have been some sort of India/UK trade and investment meeting at the Consulate General of India in the Jewellery Quarter.

 

[Ray Finkle]

BHX S18 capacity declaration.

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/BHX-Capacity-Declaration-S18.pdf

 

[Brum X]

BHX S18 capacity declaration.

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/BHX-Capacity-Declaration-S18.pdf

Tbh Ray, non of that as ever made any sense to me, it even has airlines that dont exist such as Biman Bangladesh.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Birmingham and Cardiff airports 'most punctual', OAG says

Birmingham and Cardiff have emerged as the only two major UK airports to win OAG’s top on-time performance rating, with Jet2.com the only UK airline to gain five stars for its punctuality.

The worldwide survey by the air travel intelligence brand put Birmingham airport in the top five of on time performance, with 90.2% of its 106,000 flights being on time in the 12 months to October. Cardiff won 10th place, with 89.4% of its 15,000 flights leaving and arriving within 15 minutes of scheduled time.

Full article: https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/news/birmingham-and-cardiff-airports-most-punctual-oag-says-11966

 

[BHXsupporter]

Well we see the comparative performances of other UK airports in the article. We've been bleating perhaps a little too much about the clear deterioration this summer of the routine 'customer experience' at BHX arghh when we see the others' results. This is clearly understandable on our threads because we're after (in some small way but not our only raison d’être by any stretch) ) the raising of issues for wider discussion for the improvement of BHX's services for our region, its businesses, population and healthy trading prosperity, and for holidaying! So in some way on the thread/site we should celebrate a little more - any ideas how? (success emoticons?)

 

[BHXsupporter]

'Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but that's because these awards are measuring the on-time performance of arriving and departing aircraft. So an airport could have all aircraft arrive on-time, but if every passenger had to wait 3 hours to get through the airport, it would still count as a 5 Star Airport.
Congratulations are still of course due for receiving this status regardless.'

Sorry Coathanger16 (and others) - I'd missed your discussion of the data on the infrastructure thread.

 

[BHXsupporter]

Future manager for BHX?

http://www.airport-world.com/news/g...airport-boss-to-stand-down-in-early-2018.html

 

[Ray Finkle]

Future manager for BHX?

Not if I have anything to do with it



The article suggests that she is to relocate to Australia so probably not destined for Birmingham.

 

[Brum X]

BHX thread over 27,000 posts, im not surprised though after the month we have just had. There has been plenty to talk about, some very bad and some good news too.

 

[nwoody2001]

ACL Winter 2017/18 Start of Season Report for BHX has been released.

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BHX-W17-Start-of-Season-Report.pdf

Makes for interesting reading. Suggests BHX will be pretty Stagnant in terms of growth over Christmas but that also doesn't account for the Extra capacity announced by Jet2 and TUI over Christmas so be interesting to see what happens.

 

[Brum X]

ACL Winter 2017/18 Start of Season Report for BHX has been released.

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BHX-W17-Start-of-Season-Report.pdf

Makes for interesting reading. Suggests BHX will be pretty Stagnant in terms of growth over Christmas but that also doesn't account for the Extra capacity announced by Jet2 and TUI over Christmas so be interesting to see what happens.

Sorry to change the subject woody (How rude of me) but what do you think of our new tower proposal as shown on the Greater Birmingham Thread ? Now back to BHX.

 

[Ianbutty]

Tbh Ray, non of that as ever made any sense to me, it even has airlines that dont exist such as Biman Bangladesh.

Never seen one before. Managed to understand 50% of it.

 

[Brum X]

Never seen one before. Managed to understand 50% of it.

Im glad im not the only one.

 

[Brum X]

Hilton Garden Inn Photo Update. Photo taken by PerpetualBrum on SSC

 

[rollo]

Nice atmospheric photo.

 

[Ray Finkle]

For the first time in a while I managed to get a free couple of hours and walk up to BHX from Marston Green.

Walking up the path it all seemed so quiet with a Turkish 738 having the whole of T1 to itself, unsurprising with it being mid morning lull and it wasn't long before a constant stream of arrivals filled it up again. It did feel strange not seeing the based Monarch's returning from their morning runs.

Emirates check in had a massive queue and Qatar looked decent too, especially their Business Class. Czech Airlines were checking in next to the TUi area with their queue stretching down past M&S, it seemed way to many for an A319

All traces of Monarch have gone with hoardings up around their old ticket desk, I had a quick peek through the gap and it looks as if it's been removed completely. The only other thing I noticed is that Thomas Cook are now using the self service bag drops.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

I dropped my brother off on Wednesday night for his trip to India (via Dubai) and took a look at the bag-drop area.

It struck me that the old Monarch ticket sales area could be easily converted to self-service bag-drop replicating the area opposite.

Would certainly get rid of some of the early morning queues.

 

[Ray Finkle]

OTTP have agreed to sell 30% of their stakes in Bristol and Birmingham.

Ontario Teachers' has entered a definitive agreement by which it will sell 30% of its stakes in both Bristol and Birmingham to TCorp as trustee of TCorpIM Direct Investment Fund E and Sunsuper Pty Limited as trustee of Sunsuper. TCorp and Sunsuper will each acquire 15% of Ontario Teachers' stakes in Bristol Airport and Birmingham Airport. Following completion, Ontario Teachers', TCorp and Sunsuper will own 70.0%, 15.0% and 15.0% of Bristol Airport and 33.8%, 7.2% and 7.2% of Birmingham Airport respectively.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...ristol-and-birmingham-airports-654281813.html

 

[Kevin Farnell]

OTTP have agreed to sell 30% of their stakes in Bristol and Birmingham.

I'm not sure whether this is a good or a bad thing

Kevin

 

[Ray Finkle]

No idea. I'm trying to look for any hints hidden amongst the corporate waffle.

I guess time will tell but with a master plan getting ever closer and a new CEO to appoint I hope that things move quickly.

TCorp Chief Investment Officer. "We are excited about working with our partners, not only on this investment but also on future opportunities. TCorp has a strategy of building long-term relationships with other sophisticated investors, which we believe will help to deliver value to our clients and members, both for managing existing investments and for identifying new investment opportunities."

Head of Private Markets at Sunsuper. "We believe that investments in the infrastructure sector provide greater scope for value creation through responsible stewardship, governance and proactive management of assets to create value for our members. We look forward to our ongoing involvement in the Bristol and Birmingham airports, with a key focus on delivering high-quality outcomes for all passengers and stakeholders."

https://www.otpp.com/news/article/-/article/780836