Leeds Bradford - General Thread

[Scottie Dog]

With apologies as I'm only referring to the subject being discussed and not the "host" airport.

I must admit that I use the FR24 airport data, however I start doing my stats by creating a word document and then delete flights that I know have not operated - normally those with an "unknown status" and those that have no populated registration. It's then a question of going through checking outbound against inbound flights - often an inbound, such as the Ethiopian doesn't show as an arrival and needs manually adding.

It all takes time, but it does give a fairly accurate representation of scheduled movements - of course excluded are GA, training and positioning flights!

 

[Easy 189]

Has someone accidentally deleted the EZY LBA thread???

 

[CM.]

Has someone accidentally deleted the EZY LBA thread???

No it’s still here: https://forums4airports.com/threads/1596/page-24#post-223740

 

[Easy 189]

I'm unable to see the link within "Whats New" or "New Posts"?????

 

[CM.]

I'm unable to see the link within "Whats New" or "New Posts"?????

Must be a glitch for you as I can see the posts. I’d ask one of the Mods or Admins to help.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Easy 189 - I can confirm that, as at 2014 - it appears as item 9 in the What's New listing

 

[dmrodgers]

Yes can confirm the link is still there and working. May be try and clear out your cookies and see if that helps.

 

[Easy 189]

Resolved by logging in and logging out. Thanks anyway guys

 

[lbaspotter]

The traffic lights system has just been updated by the Government, Not good for Jet2 or LBA as Turkey stays on the Red List

The #trafficlightreview is done and from 4am Sunday: - Amber+ is scrapped

Red to Amber:
Bahrain
India
Qatar
United Arab Emirates

Amber Plus to Amber
France

Amber to Green:
Austria
Germany
Latvia
Norway
Romania
Slovakia Slovenia

Amber to Red:
Georgia
Mayotte
Mexico
Reunion

See the full list of changes made today here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/red-amber-and-green-list-rules-for-entering-england

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Depends on your outlook. Next review due in 3 weeks, august peak summer. If your double vaccinated you can get away knowing there isn’t the the amber + decision looming at short notice over your

Shame nothing much has been added to Green but glad the idiots removed amber + which was red. Really.

 

[LBA4EVER]

India now an amber country, have their covid rates dropped, bit of a concern i feel, mainland spain is currently seeing an increase in covid rates so doubt its amber status will change for some time.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Spain’s rates are starting to drop again. According to the data I see. Not overly concerned, you could of said same last time about Spain.

 

[752]

Turkey with the wild fires in the holiday resorts may be a no go? I can see turkey not operating this season? maybe some winter stuff to AYT

 

[CM.]

India now an amber country, have their covid rates dropped, bit of a concern i feel, mainland spain is currently seeing an increase in covid rates so doubt its amber status will change for some time.

It’s reported that if they put Spain on red hotels wouldn’t be able to cope with the amount of people as it’s a popular country to go to and good job they haven’t put them on red as it would ruin thousands of peoples plans and wouldn’t help companies like Jet2 and Ryanair.

Turkey with the wild fires in the holiday resorts may be a no go? I can see turkey not operating this season? maybe some winter stuff to AYT

I agree I think if they changed Turkey from red to amber it wouldnt make much of a difference at the moment with wildfires affecting most of the places Jet2 fly to from LBA but let’s hope they can control them and the gov will put them on amber atleast because I’m not understanding why they still have them on red!

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Turkey with the wild fires in the holiday resorts may be a no go? I can see turkey not operating this season? maybe some winter stuff to AYT

Winter AYT isn’t that brilliant. For weather.

I said this in the Jet2 thread even if it went amber would they go?

As for them been wild fires, Turkey has said they are arson and not genuinely wild fires. When has Turkey ever had a wild fire in summer season on this scale? And affecting all major resorts too. Greece gets isolated ones but I’ve never heard of Turkey suffering. Just the media pushing the green agenda, again,

 

[Poshgirl]

Wild fires are a common occurrence in that part of the world. Yes, climate change is partly to blame. However, it's Summer so it gets very hot. I've been in Cyprus in July and some nights it was better to stay in hotel.

Unfortunately, for reasons best known to themselves, there are cases of arson. Cypriot authorities have blamed bored teenagers alongside farmers clearing their fields using the old burning stubble method. Then there's the shocking habit of throwing cigarette butts out of car windows. Even the Greek islands can suffer. Rhodes is affected at the moment, Evia's close proximity to Athens is causing concern.

We get wild fires here too. I live near to a large area of parkland with lots of scrub. If we get sustained period of very hot weather, fires often break out.

 

[Aviador]

Absolutely right. Climate change doesn't start fires. People do, usually irresponsible people.

 

[Coathanger16]

India now an amber country, have their covid rates dropped, bit of a concern i feel

The positivity rate (the percentage of tests with a positive result) in India (2.3%) is now lower than in the UK (3.5%). The 7 day average of deaths per million population is 0.37 in India vs 1.22 in the UK. Obviously these figures are all dependent on the data from India being accurate.

The question is, how is someone travelling from India to the UK a threat to national health? The delta variant is now dominant here and across most of Europe, so if someone does arrive with covid it's hardly a variant of concern.

Also remember the ability to avoid home quarantine when arriving from an amber country is only allowed if you've been vaccinated in the UK, the EU or the USA - i.e. Indian citizens will still have to self isolate on arrival.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Friends just returned through LBA from majorca, was telling me the airport is like a war zone, nobody knows what documents, tests etc they require, no end of passengers kicking off and trouble. I think the ever changing rules and conflicting media coverage dont help

 

[KARFA]

It's been pretty much the same for arrivals from Spain for a while now - pre arrivals test, PLF, day 2 & 8 test booking.

The only change recently is that those fully vaccinated in the UK/EU/US no longer have to self isolate after arriving from Spain and only need a day 2 test rather than a day 8. So for these people it is - pre arrivals test, PLF, day 2 test booking.