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The council ended up having to buy it for over £100 million cause no businessess would go into it because of the airport - hardly good for jobs in Newham then.There is a curfew on flights.Its a law. It needs to be respected.
As for building 1000, it has the DLR and a bloody airport on it's doorstep, LITERALLY with no real noise nuisance from the ATRs and the RJs. I mean how could transport links like that ever be an asset!! It takes a proper skill set to arse that up....
You cant say just one flight on a saturday afternoon. They signed up to a section 106 - whether you agree with it or not
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Skipness - You cant say just one flight on a saturday afternoon. They signed up to a section 106 - whether you agree with it or not.
And actually Newham are being unindated with wealth - olympics and crossrail. Its just very very badly managed.Have a look at Building 1000 - The council ended up having to buy it for over £100 million cause no businessess would go into it because of the airport - hardly good for jobs in Newham then.There is a curfew on flights.Its a law. It needs to be respected.
And actually Newham are being unindated with wealth - olympics and crossrail. Its just very very badly managed.Have a look at Building 1000 - The council ended up having to buy it for over £100 million cause no businessess would go into it because of the airport - hardly good for jobs in Newham then.There is a curfew on flights.Its a law. It needs to be respected.
Building 1000 which overlooks the airport lay vacant for some years because the developer was looking for too high a price for it (poor location, very little car parking, area around it is industrial wasteland), had gone ahead without a prearranged tenant (the developer's own stupidity), and they finally "persuaded" the local council to take it. Yes, a complete squandering of local taxpayers money. Hey ho, it's only mine.
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I love the that if you say anything negative or say that LCY must obey the planning law that suddenly you are an anti-campaigner. What you think is a sensible law may not be sensible to me. Imagine people picked and choose what they want to abide by or not.The planning law actually protects the airport more that any other , keeping flight paths clear etc etc. So its my opinion its not a stupid law 
Anyway when the planning bill goes through none of us will have a say what goes where and when 
WHBM - You must live in one of the lucky parts. I went down to the planning meeting and some of the stories people told where dreadful.Did you manage to get the free insulation from the airport?
Anyway when the planning bill goes through none of us will have a say what goes where and when WHBM - You must live in one of the lucky parts. I went down to the planning meeting and some of the stories people told where dreadful.Did you manage to get the free insulation from the airport?
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Heard that OSL is facing the axe with effect summer schedule 
Quite a few destinations disappearing from the route map.....
IIRC, Oslo, Hamburg, Berne, Warsaw, Rome, Vienna, Stuttgart, Belfast, Bremen, Liverpool, Leipzig were all served from LCY not too long ago. Network will be down to 30 destinations.
Quite a few destinations disappearing from the route map.....
IIRC, Oslo, Hamburg, Berne, Warsaw, Rome, Vienna, Stuttgart, Belfast, Bremen, Liverpool, Leipzig were all served from LCY not too long ago. Network will be down to 30 destinations.
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You must live in one of the lucky parts. I went down to the planning meeting and some of the stories people told where dreadful.Did you manage to get the free insulation from the airport?
Some laws are wrong and stupid, it takes an intelligent man to tell the deifference.
Imagine people picked and choose what they want to abide by or not.
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
John McCain is lobbying to get the range limitation at LGA lifted, so that transcon flights from California can be admitted.
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I live on the Isle of Dogs so I have LCY departures and LHR Westerlies screaming round the corner at Canary Wharf on base leg and I know which is more annoying.
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* WHBM you're showing your age mate. Tis 27 at LHR these days!
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Reason for Today's BA 8471/2 LCY -BCN Cancellation
Hi All,
What is the reason behind BA's cancellation of BA 8471/2 from City to Barcelona today. I checked on Seatcounter and loads seem light for all 3 days it operates this and next week?
Reason for asking is that I am booked on it on the 30th, and have a different ticket connection with Spanair (bmi miles)
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What is the reason behind BA's cancellation of BA 8471/2 from City to Barcelona today. I checked on Seatcounter and loads seem light for all 3 days it operates this and next week?
Reason for asking is that I am booked on it on the 30th, and have a different ticket connection with Spanair (bmi miles)
Thanks
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Before I start, I know what the BA brand police are like, so I know the answer even before I ask it....but..
It is lost on me why with SunAir, as BA's sole remaining european franchisee (as far as I recall?) and with the right equipment for LCY operations, as a relatively "easy" option for BA CityFlyer to either start new routes or layer capacity etc with the Do328...why has BA not explored this previously.
Admittedly, LCY-BCN on a 328 might be a stretch (can the 328JET do it, I wonder)....but Air France appears to have successfully layered their operations at LCY through use of the CityJet Avros, VLM F50s and Scot Do328s. Surely it cannot be such a significant mental leap for BA to figure out the same sort of thing, to help itself out, through use of its partners!
It is lost on me why with SunAir, as BA's sole remaining european franchisee (as far as I recall?) and with the right equipment for LCY operations, as a relatively "easy" option for BA CityFlyer to either start new routes or layer capacity etc with the Do328...why has BA not explored this previously.
Admittedly, LCY-BCN on a 328 might be a stretch (can the 328JET do it, I wonder)....but Air France appears to have successfully layered their operations at LCY through use of the CityJet Avros, VLM F50s and Scot Do328s. Surely it cannot be such a significant mental leap for BA to figure out the same sort of thing, to help itself out, through use of its partners!
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Steady on... LHR inbounds are only doing 180 knots when they pass your home so they are not exactly screaming! 
I live on the Isle of Dogs so I have LCY departures and LHR Westerlies screaming round the corner at Canary Wharf on base leg and I know which is more annoying.
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I can assure you they can be - down to minimum approach speed this far out, plenty of flap, plenty of bank angle on sometimes to turn the corner, thus plenty of power.
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Have to agree,
Heathrow inbounds on base leg are often louder (or at least more noticeable) than any City traffic.
This is especially true when City is closed and heathrow inbounds have been given 3000ft to play with!
Still, where I live near Gatwick, it is just as bad with their inbounds!!!!
Heathrow inbounds on base leg are often louder (or at least more noticeable) than any City traffic.
This is especially true when City is closed and heathrow inbounds have been given 3000ft to play with!
Still, where I live near Gatwick, it is just as bad with their inbounds!!!!
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LHR inbounds will rarely be at minimum approach speed when they pass the area around LCY and the vast majority of aircraft will have their gear still up then as well which generates less drag and needs less power. They are at a fairly quiet phase of flight really.
Even if one does find that they are more noticeable than LCY traffic, I would have to admit that you would be hard pushed to put the noise into the category of disturbing! Drive along to Hatton Cross to experience that!
Even if one does find that they are more noticeable than LCY traffic, I would have to admit that you would be hard pushed to put the noise into the category of disturbing! Drive along to Hatton Cross to experience that!
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I don't know what you could possibly mean my dear Swiper.
You having conversations with yourself again................you know what the doctors have said, keep taking those pills
You having conversations with yourself again................you know what the doctors have said, keep taking those pills