Leeds Bradford - General Thread

[dmrodgers]

So does anyone out there know of anyone looking for staff. Travel background, preferably Air related and management. But open to change for the right opportunity

A number of jobs being advertised on the LBA website, not sure if any of these meet your criteria.

 

[lbaspotter]

For anyone interested I've actually just now finished editing the LBASpotters summer 2019 timetable in association with Forums4airports*.

I have a 36 page booklet to offer you this time around, includes detailed listings of all Scheduled and Chartered flights programmed to operate during the summer 2019 season. March 31st to November 27th 2019 Inclusive*

You can now purchase your own copy for just £3.50 online using the following link via my blog https://lbaspotters.blogspot.com/ or website here https://rossbailey001.wixsite.com/lbasummer19timetable


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[mdobuk21]

Great work mate! When is the nouvelair scheduled to start? I cant remember from the other threads!

 

[lbaspotter]

Great work mate! When is the nouvelair scheduled to start? I cant remember from the other threads!

Nouvelair commence 1x weekly Airbus A320, Enfidha - Leeds/Bradford charter flights for Thomas Cook Holidays on Tuesday May 21st (ETA 18:30 - ETD 19:30) and they run until October 1st 2019

New Routes for Summer 2019 are as follows.

Jet2.com & Jet2holidays.com
Murcia Corvera = 2x weekly Mondays & Fridays from March 29th / Increases to 3x weekly Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays from May 29th
Chania - Crete = 1x weekly Sundays from May 5th 2019
Izmir - Turkey = 1x weekly Wednesdays from May 8th
Bourgas - Bulgaria = 1x weekly Wednesdays from May 8th / Increases to 2x weekly Wednesdays & Saturdays from July 3rd
Thomas Cook Holidays
Enfidha - Tunisia - 1x weekly Tuesdays from May 21st (Flights operated by Nouvelair)

 

[mdobuk21]

Thanks!

 

[Len Fish]

Off topic I know but another airline bites the dust, this time Wow. Thank goodness LBA has Jet2 and Ryanair in these troubled times.

 

[The Pole]

Here's an odd one for you! When I am at my girlfriend's house in Farsley and I look over towards Horsforth, on the horizon (slightly above it) is a red anti collision light (on day and night), it appears to be before the end of the 32 as planes over fly this on approach. I can not see this from Horsforth and when driving around the area and wondered if anyone knew where it is? It is not Cookridge tower. Just curious

 

[twevsmiff]

Here's an odd one for you! When I am at my girlfriend's house in Farsley and I look over towards Horsforth, on the horizon (slightly above it) is a red anti collision light (on day and night), it appears to be before the end of the 32 as planes over fly this on approach. I can not see this from Horsforth and when driving around the area and wondered if anyone knew where it is? It is not Cookridge tower. Just curious

Would suggest it is the one on the new floodlight pole at Yarnbury Rubgy Club on Brownberrie Lane. There are numerous new floodlight poles at the ground but the light is just on one, the one on the corner nearest the airport.

 

[The Pole]

Thanks, next time I pass there I will stop and have a look

 

[quik123]

Hot off the press, David Laws is retiring from his post as chief exec. of LBA. Finishes mid April. He did not last long did he?

 

[White Heather]

Hot off the press, David Laws is retiring from his post as chief exec. of LBA. Finishes mid April. He did not last long did he?

That is a surprise. Nothing was said at last week's meeting about David - only that Chris Sanders was retiring. If this is correct then all I can say is that his reign was short but very effective. LBA has made some big changes in his couple of years and I am surprised that he isn't going to be around to see the terminal completed. I for one will be immensely disappointed if he is going and I think that the rest of the Consultative Committee will feel the same. He was a breath of fresh air at LBA.

 

[oldendays]

Golly. This has either been on the cards for some time and has been kept under wraps or somebody has decided his time is up and he should leave as soon as possible. Hopefully, the former.

I recall John Parkin and Tony Hallwood both resigned at much the same time.

What a pity Sir Gil Thompson isn't still alive but I expect a successor has already been lined up.

 

[lbaspotter]

Make me now wonder if David Laws & Chris Sanders have been pushed out in to early retirement by AMP?

It's not really been a good few months for either of them if I'm being honest. Especially when taking in to consideration the high profile loss of Thomas Cook & TUI work, and now whats looks like doing a flawed business deal with flybmi, whom collapsed not long afterwards!

 

[fl4y]

A huge amount has been achieved during David's tenure and I am sure he will be a big miss to the airport and for Yorkshire. He is not leaving the industry as he is taking on a new role with LBA's shareholders AMP Capital working as a Senior Advisor.

 

[AirBingley]

I'll miss his cheeky approach to radio interviews! In all fairness he inherited an airport which at certain times of day is already at bursting point and an aviation industry which is very volatile. We can bemoan the lack of new routes but in all fairness the owners needed to put their money where their mouth is which is precisely what has happened - and what better way to ensure continuity than keeping a watching brief over the new management team. I'm sure Exeter, Cardiff and Doncaster would love our airline and route portfolio with todays news.

 

[mdobuk21]

Couldnt make it up could you? Very surprising news, the terminal expansion will be davids legacy and what we needed bit i totally agree with the post above where the loss of airlines/routes (although not the fault of anyone specific) ha not been a good few months for the airport. Onwards and upwards.

 

[a300boy]

We don’t know who’s fault the loss of routes and airlines was do we !
It just business and a guy furthering his career ! Another blow to our progress if WH is as a good a character judge as she seems to be.

 

[White Heather]

I don't really need to be a character judge as far as David Laws is concerned. His track record up at NCL speaks for itself and although he hasn't seen things through at LBA, he has overseen the beginnings of more progress at LBA in a very short time than any of his predecessors. The new terminal expansion, coupled with phase 2 (re-alignment of the existing terminal layout) will make a huge difference and largely correct many of the flaws in-built to the current terminal due to the piecemeal pattern of extension upon extension.
Lets just put it this way - when he first appeared at LBA and attended his first Consultative Committee meeting, he spelled out all that was wrong with LBA and what had to be done to correct it - from the terminal, to cleaning standards, to the levels of customer service and the shortcomings airside. He spelled out what he intended doing about it and for the first time I can ever remember (in over 25 years on the committee), he was roundly applauded by everyone. There was a noticeable uplifting of spirits with everyone feeling that we now had a CEO who spoke our language and would make a difference.
I suspect this news has only just come out, as LBA were completely open about Chris Sanders' impending retirement. Had it been known I would have thought they would have said something at the last meeting about David too.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Such a shame and a great loss. He seemed to the one that had massive ambitions for the airport and i would like to see that his replacement is just as passionate and ambitious.

I don't think the fault of TCX and TUI can lie directly with any of the team at LBIA. TC is going under some major reviews and consolidation; retrenching back to the bases and with limited ACMI aircraft on the market it is understandable we'd loose them for S19. TUI on the other hand could have kept the full programme on sale for S20 however with the MAX problems it can probably be predicted that the LBIA programme would have been canned. I personally am grateful that TUI pulled it sooner rather than later.

 

[lbaspotter]

One out, all out!
Looks like the is a mass exodus going from the Airports Managerment.

The local rag Yorkshire Post have picked up on the news this moring that the Airports CEO, David Laws is leaving to take up a new advisory role with AMP Capital.
Meanwhile the Airport's head of external affairs, Phil Forster is also stepping down from his role, as his taking up new a role at the Tees Valley Combined Authority.

Source
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/bus...-as-leeds-bradford-airport-boss-1-9690732/amp