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Can a CY-configured CS100 make it nonstop? The testbed only made it nonstop because it had a simulated all C load onboard. I doubt that Swiss would reconfigure some CS100 into all C as that would mean a non-interchangeable sub-fleet.
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This guy talks about BA dropping to 6 weekly. It's always been 6 weekly, albeit twice daily 5 days per week. Oddly enough, G-EUNB is *still* at LHR.
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LCY Car Park problems
I am a frequent business flyer using LCY. I've been through LCY twice this week and about to catch the WX113 this morning.
I have had the misfortune of repeated and unacceptable delays trying to get my car out of the car park at LCY.
For the past 6 to 8 weeks their ticket barriers repeatedly request additional car park payments despite the parking being prepaid on the LCY or Holidays Extra website.
There is clearly a software problem or some systems integration problem. Often experience delays exiting the car park because you need to press the Assistance button on the exit barrier ticketing machines then explaining meanwhile queues of cars build up on both exit lanes as other car users are also experiencing the same issue.
When you step off the aircraft with hand luggage only, if your lucky enough not to have disembarking delayed whilst adjacent aircraft manoeuvre on the ramp then all you want is a rapid exit from the car park.
I'm finding the whole LCY car park experience unacceptably frustrating lately to the point where I'd be happier to drive to alternatives or just use a different airport.
I fully expect they'll cause me consistent delays and annoyance this weekend as I and other users of their car park attempt to get our cars out of their car parks. Sick of the experience for what is a very expensive car parking charge. Their staff on the parking assistance are also incredibly inefficient and condescending too!
I am a frequent business flyer using LCY. I've been through LCY twice this week and about to catch the WX113 this morning.
I have had the misfortune of repeated and unacceptable delays trying to get my car out of the car park at LCY.
For the past 6 to 8 weeks their ticket barriers repeatedly request additional car park payments despite the parking being prepaid on the LCY or Holidays Extra website.
There is clearly a software problem or some systems integration problem. Often experience delays exiting the car park because you need to press the Assistance button on the exit barrier ticketing machines then explaining meanwhile queues of cars build up on both exit lanes as other car users are also experiencing the same issue.
When you step off the aircraft with hand luggage only, if your lucky enough not to have disembarking delayed whilst adjacent aircraft manoeuvre on the ramp then all you want is a rapid exit from the car park.
I'm finding the whole LCY car park experience unacceptably frustrating lately to the point where I'd be happier to drive to alternatives or just use a different airport.
I fully expect they'll cause me consistent delays and annoyance this weekend as I and other users of their car park attempt to get our cars out of their car parks. Sick of the experience for what is a very expensive car parking charge. Their staff on the parking assistance are also incredibly inefficient and condescending too!
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Would SWISS have any rights to such a route?
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With a EU Open Skies agreement in place with which Switzerland are part of there would be no issues with SWISS operating the route although this may well change once the United Kingdom leaves the EU.
SWISS won't though as the whole story is a waste of space!
SWISS won't though as the whole story is a waste of space!
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Swiss CS100 HB-JBA dropped in on Monday 17th July for a few hours, for handling trials etc. Following the visit of one of the prototypes the noise rating for the CS100 has been approved and the aircraft has been certified for the steep approach. They are scheduled on some ZRH-LCY-ZRH trips from mid-August, which coincides with the removal of the airline's last Avro RJ100s on August 14.
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BACF adding ORY, PRG and KEF from the start of W17 schedule.
Flights to ORY will operate 17 x weekly and replace the current LHR-ORY service. PRG will operate 6 x weekly. Winter seasonal Flights to KEF will operate 2 x weekly. Flight to GRX will move to a summer seasonal service.
Flights to ORY will operate 17 x weekly and replace the current LHR-ORY service. PRG will operate 6 x weekly. Winter seasonal Flights to KEF will operate 2 x weekly. Flight to GRX will move to a summer seasonal service.
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Paris Orly has been a surprising omission for some years. The Eurostar train was a notable competitor years ago from London Waterloo, but ever since it moved to St Pancras station, along with some ever-increasing departure bureaucratic hoopla worthy of Heathrow rather than LCY, seems to be less accessible from Canary Wharf and the LCY hinterland. I did hear it's moving gave a significant boost to the Heathrow-Paris flights at the time, which had been in the doldrums since it originally opened back in the 1990s
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Bombardier CS100 has started service with Swiss from Zurich yesterday, initially one evening flight only. Video of it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHu6F6ZXl9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHu6F6ZXl9w
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Having seen the Bombardier CS100 depart in daily service now, it may look sort-of like an E190 from a distance, but the most notable aspect is the lack of noise. It's a whole order of magnitude quieter than the Embraer. I didn't expect such an improvement.
