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[Kevin Farnell]

Just checking in. All very quiet down here?

Ssshhh! You'll wake them up

Kevin

 

[rollo]

Ssshhh! You'll wake them up

Kevin

Did somebody say something, ZZZZZZ

 

[Coathanger16]

Any easy way of finding out what aircraft type will be operating a flight for Jet2 & TUI - short of making a dummy booking as far as choosing a seat to see the seat map?

 

[Jerry]

Any easy way of finding out what aircraft type will be operating a flight for Jet2 & TUI - short of making a dummy booking as far as choosing a seat to see the seat map?

Doesn't google flights show the aircraft type?

 

[Coathanger16]

Doesn't google flights show the aircraft type?

Normally yes, but for some reason not for TUI or Jet2...

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[Matt995]

www.trip.com/flights/

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[Brum X]

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Very impressive!!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Nice video although why it starts with "One of Britain's great surprises" I do not know, it's only what us residents have known all along

Was in the Jewellery Quarter on Saturday enjoying a few pints of delicious ale, there are some great pubs in the area. The train into New Street took around 10 mins and we then jumped straight onto a tram which was ready and waiting, in previous years I'd have either had to walk all the way from New St or transfer to Moor St and get the heavy rail from there. The Metro has made such a difference, I can't wait for the Eastside extension to get underway. Father-in-Law was well impressed and he's from Sheffield where they've had trams for years, I think the wait on the platform at Lea Hall was longer than the actually journey

 

[Ianbutty]

Nice video although why it starts with "One of Britain's great surprises" I do not know, it's only what us residents have known all along

Was in the Jewellery Quarter on Saturday enjoying a few pints of delicious ale, there are some great pubs in the area. The train into New Street took around 10 mins and we then jumped straight onto a tram which was ready and waiting, in previous years I'd have either had to walk all the way from New St or transfer to Moor St and get the heavy rail from there. The Metro has made such a difference, I can't wait for the Eastside extension to get underway. Father-in-Law was well impressed and he's from Sheffield where they've had trams for years, I think the wait on the platform at Lea Hall was longer than the actually journey

The video is excellent. Sure the great surprise phrase is a bit dated, but like Shropshire, being the surprise is the city's attractions. We are not ostentatious. We may do not shout every 5 minutes how brilliant we are. We don't make sure our streets are on TV every night. We just get on with it, enjoy our lives and we just know. and everyone I know who has visited says the same thing: the place is amazing

 

[Brum X]

And not one image of Spaghetti Junction or the old bullring, that must be a first

Well done Expedia

 

[Ray Finkle]

And not one image of Spaghetti Junction or the old bullring, that must be a first

They managed to get more canals than Venice in though

 

[TheLocalYokel]

They managed to get more canals than Venice in though

At least they're not drying up like those in Venice.

 

[Coathanger16]

At least they're not drying up like those in Venice.

Drying up? Was only a few months ago that Venice was flooded!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Drying up? Was only a few months ago that Venice was flooded!

Venice canals almost run dry just two months after flooding

Although the water levels in the city's famous canals rise and fall with the tide, exceptionally low tides have left canals bare.

news.sky.com

 

[Brum X]

Pigeon Park in Birmingham's Central Business District.

Just want to let you all know that Brum X was not harmed in the making of this photo. good job I'm not afraid of Pigeons.

 

[Brum X]

Happy Friday Forum



Photo credit to PerpetualBrum on SSC

 

[Brum X]

Something to cheer us up during these strange times

The transformation of Birmingham's Eastside district has now gone into first gear since the announcement that Hs2 is to go ahead. On the site of the new Curzon Street station the foundations of the original 1838 roundhouse (engine shed) of the London and Birmingham Railway have emerged.

Credit to https://facebook.com/blaenaurailway

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there Ray and all, with the current situation as it is with flybe now gone, plus this virus, how many passengers are we now expecting Birmingham Airport to lose this year, and what are now the pax numbers likely to be... Andyc

 

[HPsauce]

How long is a piece of string springs to mind !!. Seriously we have no way of knowing just now. We need virus to run it's course and confidence to return. Could be quite some time yet.