Leeds Bradford - General Thread

[LBA4EVER]

You know im correct haha some just cant handle the truth!

 

[White Heather]

You know im correct haha some just cant handle the truth!

Your'e obsessed with this!

For your own wellbeing, get over it. It was 1984. Moving the touch down point wasn't something LBA did as a bright idea. It was part and parcel of the runway extension. No extended runway without it.

As for wide bodies landing here, they don't do so now because :

a). There's no way the existing terminal facilities can cope with wide bodied arrivals nor would any half decent middle eastern airline fly here without much improved facilities.

b). There's no real demand from airlines to fly them here. Jet2 are unlikely to ever fly the A330s here, just as they dont fly them anywhere else except MAN.

c). The current stands include only one that can fit a wide body aircraft type.

Your assertion that none will fly here because of the runway is rather weird, considering in the past, (when LBA was generally quieter and better able to handle wide bodies without causing chaos), we had numerous scheduled and chartered 747s, Tristars, DC10s, A300s, 767s and more recently A310s and A330s. Nothing has changed with the runway. It's the same now as back then, when in fact, aircraft performance was generally worse than today. The market has changed, and the terminal became much busier, so any wide body aircraft now is far more disruptive than in the past. In a nutshell, LBA dont really encourage them.

I strongly suggest you wait and see how things are after the terminal is completed and more stands built, but for heavens sake, please stop banging on about a touch down point that is never likely to be moved back to where it was, no matter how nice that would be or how much we would all like it to happen.

 

[Statto]

You know im correct haha some just cant handle the truth!

The truths are

1. The change in the touchdown zone was a mandatory requirement imposed by the CAA when the runway was extended.

2. Since the runway opened in 1984 there haven’t been any proposals from any of the airport’s owners or investors to relocate the touchdown zone. So it’s clearly not a viable idea

 

[Finger66]

Things have generally gone so quiet recently that I was beginning to think LBA had upped sticks and moved to South Yorkshire!!

 

[Len Fish]

Came on here earlier and all I could see were tumbleweeds blowing across the screen and spider’s webs!

 

[jason1-11]

Things have generally gone so quiet recently that I was beginning to think LBA had upped sticks and moved to South Yorkshire!!

All the action appears to be on the other side of the Pennines, with Manchester running on steroids at the moment.

 

[Starflyer]

Yes, but the problem is that Manchester thinks Gatwick is on steroids and should have half of what Gatwick is getting. It's an iterative process depending on where you live. I am sure someone in Humberside thinks half of LBA's TUI and Wizz Air programme should be there.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Its gone very quiet on here this week, has everyone fallen asleep or just nothing to report?
The airport should kick into life more this month with spring approaching and its good to see the new terminal extension works continuing, its a pretty large area the ground work covers!

 

[SierraHotel]

Yes looking forward to steelwork emerging from the ground and the construction of at least 2 new stands.

 

[Seasider]

Has everyone fallen asleep? 24 hrs and no post on LBA thread - must be a record!

 

[White Heather]

Has everyone fallen asleep? 24 hrs and no post on LBA thread - must be a record!

Thanks for that. You just woke me up!

 

[a300boy]

After a Wednesday like this other than this mornings Wizz Air going around the first time it’s a little slow today the least.

 

[Finger66]

Tbf I am not seeing much of interest in any of the airport threads. Perhaps the industry as a whole is in a lull

 

[Aviador]

Tbf I am not seeing much of interest in any of the airport threads. Perhaps the industry as a whole is in a lull

I think you're right. Just had a check of the forum stats and we've had over 40,000 views in the last week so it's not that people aren't coming on here.

 

[Len Fish]

Perhaps we should have a roll call-“Len Fish”. “Here”.

 

[Finger66]

Perhaps we should have a roll call-“Len Fish”. “Here”.

Hopefully that will "register" with most members!

Apologies for having to revert to lousy jokes to help pass the time of day

 

[tonysmith]

Looks like DSA is one step away from opening again after the council agrees a 125 year lease

 

[White Heather]

Looks like DSA is one step away from opening again after the council agrees a 125 year lease

No, it's one step closer but still quite a few steps away from reopening.

 

[Seasider]

Well, I certainly stimulated interest. Back home tomorrow on the lunchtime KL flight.
Did I say the weather in Lyon has been .

 

[paully]

No, it's one step closer but still quite a few steps away from reopening.

I`d say miles away...You cannot change the fact that DSA doesn`t have the population an airport needs.