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Old 28th Aug 2009, 11:28
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Heard this is to be a charter route that EZY has agreed to do. Makes sense during the slack winter period, and is a new move for EZY at BFS.
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 11:56
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Some interesting diversions to BFS this morning by the sounds of it
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 13:09
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BHD Closed

I heard that BHD was closed for a short time this morning due to a bomb scare?
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 13:21
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Apparently a bomb scare at Palace Army Barracks disrupting operations at BHD.

Maybe I'm the only one, but would be a bit disappointed and to be honest pessimistic, if a new EZY scheduled route from BFS was to Brescia. Once a week in the summer for Lake Garda traffic, and maybe charter in the winter for ski resorts, but as a scheduled route with maybe 2 or 3 rotations a week year round, I just couldn't see it work.

With EI serving Milan, (hopefully back for summer 2010), would be good to see EZY serve Venice once again.
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 21:49
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Some late ops at BHD tonight by bmi, not very common for them to have a departure so late. Ryanair have been more likely to do this but not so often Bmi ?.
Arrivals From Flight No.S.T.AFlight Information
London Heathrow BD96 20:20 Landed 21:45
London Heathrow BD92 21:00 Landed 21:52


Departures To Flight No.S.T.D.Flight Information
London Heathrow BD97 21:00 Departed 22:25
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 22:24
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Does anyone know what is happening re Flyglobespan, apparently today's flight to Sanford was cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow morning. I cant see it yet on the departures or arrivals.

Is the aircraft over nighting in BFS or is it due in in the morning????

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Old 28th Aug 2009, 22:35
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Does anyone know what is happening re Flyglobespan, apparently today's flight to Sanford was cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow morning. I cant see it yet on the departures or arrivals.

Is the aircraft over nighting in BFS or is it due in in the morning????

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The in-bound aircraft that usually takes it GSM825 FROM GLASGOW AT 14.25 arrived at 18:11 nearly 4hours late it was - And the out-bound was on FINAL CALL GATE 22 then it suddnely went off screens and now on SFB Airport Info it says 'SEE AGENT' So i guess its tech in BFS.

The in-bound from GLA was G-CDPT -
Contacted [UTC]CallsignFlightnumberRoutingRegistrationOperatorType2009/08/28 14:31GSM826Y20826SFB-BFS-GLAG-CDPTFlyGlobespanB763

Then another interesting 1 again another B763 so replacment aircraft
Contacted [UTC]CallsignFlightnumberRoutingRegistrationOperatorType2009/08/28 20:42GSM391PY2391P G-SPNAFlyGlobespanB763
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Old 28th Aug 2009, 23:45
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Does anyone know what is happening re Flyglobespan, apparently today's flight to Sanford was cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow morning. I cant see it yet on the departures or arrivals.

Is the aircraft over nighting in BFS or is it due in in the morning????

EI-BUD
aircraft was running behind schedule, departed to GLA was making its return to BFS when it was landing it appeared to be quite heavy (bounced a little) apparently the "springs" (im sure theres a more technical term for that) on the landing gear are broken... all PAX put up for the night at the comfort hotel, heading back to BFS for 0600.. aircraft was then towed to stand 26A (i think its 26A?) DHL, TNT and i think their own engineers are hanging around it

they'll have to get a charter in to get the schedule back on track...?

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Old 28th Aug 2009, 23:48
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Belfast escapes airline pay cuts


Aer Lingus is seeking pay cuts from its workforce after reporting an operating loss of 93m euros for the first six months of the year.
However, the move is unlikely to affect the airline's employees in Belfast where, the company said, its operation was "working extremely well".
Earlier this week Aer Lingus said it was working on a restructuring plan to return the company to profitability.
A spokesman said the Belfast operation was competitive and profitable.
Aer Lingus corporate affairs director Enda Corneille said: "Our base in Belfast is working extremely well and if anything, we would like the rest of our operation in the Republic to emulate the type of flexibilities we have in Belfast rather than it being a particular target for any planned resizing of the business.
"The reason for this is that our operation and cost base in Belfast are closely aligned to our nearest competitor which means we can be more competitive on price and still be profitable as we showed in June July and August of this year.
"The issue for us in the Republic is that our costs are out of line with our closest competitors."
BBC NEWS | Business | Belfast escapes airline pay cuts

i wonder will this finally convince the anti-EI-BFS group that EI's operation is successful at BFS
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Old 29th Aug 2009, 11:19
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Down to one aircraft in winter..........that just oozes success, how could one be in any doubt
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Old 29th Aug 2009, 12:02
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Down to one aircraft in winter..........that just oozes success, how could one be in any doubt
Where do you get the idea that there is only 1 aircraft for winter? It takes 2 aircraft based to fulfil the schedule.

London LHR takes 1 aircraft
and the other does
Mornings either Lanzarote or Munich and the afternoons are either
Malaga or Tenerife.

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Old 29th Aug 2009, 16:26
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Airbus A380 to make debut visit to Northern Ireland

The Airbus A380 is scheduled to make its first visit to Northern Ireland on September 5th 2009.
The aircraft, MSN 1, is an Airbus flight test aircraft.

Approximate schedule for A380 fly-overs :

Edinburgh Airport 13.40
Prestwick Airport 14.00
Northern Ireland Air Show at Portrush 14.20
Belfast City Airport 14.40
Broughton 15.08
Birmingham Int. Airport 15.40

All times local.

Low approach and go around at Belfast City Airport should be quite an event.
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Old 29th Aug 2009, 21:02
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Utter rubbish re GSM825 I'm afraid. Landing at BFS was totally normal. Part that was found to be missing was 1 of the overlock springs from the nose wheel bay. Most likely broke during retraction at GLA or extension on the approach.

Having to fly a part over put the already delayed crew out of hours.
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Old 30th Aug 2009, 11:25
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well they never looked at the nose gear while the plane was on the ground, they were looking at the main gear, as my reply said in the GSM thread, there was over 50 people who witnessed it, and we are not talking about the same dramatic fake bounce from that beer advert last year... but the a/c did come down and go up before landing

meh, you witness something, you talk to the engineers/ground staff and still someone ends up saying its a lie
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 01:56
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Yes, and as I said on the GSM thread , I was the handling pilot. Maybe you should have talked to the engineer who was dealing with the fault instead of random people on the airfield!

That was a standard Boeing xwind landing and did not go up and down at all! You're obviously not a pilot .......
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 12:22
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clearly im not a pilot but ive never claimed to be one so dont see how thats part of this discussion? but explain to me how people (including myself) witnessed a bounce (like i said not a dramatic one).. and your in here trying to say it didnt happen

how do we know your actually a pilot and not someone whos defending GSM or maybe your are a pilot and just wish to cover this one up?

this place is getting worse now, you witness an event and come here and its deemed as a lie... no doubt you will make a reply squashing everything i just typed but i cant be bothered debating this out when i know what i saw

on a brighter note, has anyone heard what businesses will occupy the 20 retail units? only thing i have heard is possibly a waterstones store as they were featured in one of the CAD drawings of the new areas and it would make sense.. wonder if O'Brians will return, as they didnt really have a choice but to move out... hopefully Subway will appear they'd make a fortune.. one thing i have a concern over is the winter period, if its a repeat of last year (in 2010 tho) then alot of the new stores will almost certainly be losing money

as for the construction area thats appeared on stands 12-15 its going to be about a month before they've finished digging, then i think the next step will be repairing parts of the ramp (pothole city) also it looks like they are going to make a boarding area for stand 12 where the aldergrove bar used to be, as it means they can now use all 4 stands in that area and have 4 boarding gates, instead of 4 stands and 3 gates
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 16:14
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Well, what can I say? Neither pilot noticed any bounce. Neither did any of the cabin crew. Not one of the passengers mentioned anything about it. Neither did the engineer. This aircraft provides a print out after every landing, and even this showed normal parameters. So either the laws of physics are different at BFS, or you "Should have gone to Spec Savers"

You say this place is getting worse. I agree, but I notice you have only been on here approx 1 year. This site did once only have professional pilots on, and we didn't have to keep explaining normal procedures to untrained people....

With regard to your "cover up" story, impossible I'm afraid, as every flight parameter is recorded and monitored in the aircraft's FDM system.

If you're wondering why I'm pretty pi$$ed at your comments, it's because journalists trawl this site and print the stories contained on it. Your unfounded allegations here, and on the GSM page regarding bouncing aircraft and passengers involved in heavy landings are both stupid and damaging.
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 16:37
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Totally agree with you luvly jubbly. I work in BFS and what I heard happened was exactly as you described...a non event. Either the 50 people who witnessed it haven't really been talking about this so called bounce on landing or it in fact didnt happen!

I'll take the word of the pilot and the engineer before exagerations developed on the ramp at BFS.
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 20:07
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thats alright, you can post whatever you want denying it happened but i know what i saw and it wasnt a smooth landing...as i had the perfect view point from gate 22... i can understand your view point on the muppets who work in the press agency reading this forum.. but i wont change my posts as im not going to start telling porkies to keep employees of various companies happy... i cant help thinking that when people see the word "bounce" that they think its some form of dramatic scene from a movie, ive seen the GSM 767 land many times in all different conditions and it was by far the un-smoothest (if thats a word) one ive witnessed to date

as for the cover up, i know everything is recorded, but i was referring to keeping it quiet to the forum posters/readers, as its not uncommon for employees of companies to come on here and defend criticism

i dont come on here posting lies for thrills, i only post facts about schedules, construction, new routes, new aircraft developments at BFS etc or things i have saw through my own eyes... tell you what, ill go and have my memory erased of the jet2 emergency landing last year where the a/c landed, exited via bravo and onto stand 28 with a full fire service escort, the EZY plane that was tech for 3 days due to ingesting an item of clothing during taxy which was towed to the RAF side for a full engine run, the first choice aircraft that was tech for 3 days on stand 21 due to a problem with engine no.2, or the titan 757 chartered in for a Lourdes flight which got lost and headed for stand 21 before realising he was supposed to be on 22 which resulted in a nice bit of jet blast for PAX on stand 18... the CO flight which was damaged on stand, or more recently 2 seperate EZY airbuses that were grounded at BFS with one having to be sent to Europe for inspection... or the various other "rare" aircraft that have been around BFS from the AN-124 to the nimrod fly over... i guess my glassses havnt worked and i saw none of the above

cant blame you for trying to say it didnt happen, if i was in any way affiliated to GSM i would deny anything happened..
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Old 31st Aug 2009, 20:46
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Tigger, don't know where you're heading with this or why, but my advise is to stop now....please

The new "Skybridge" is coming along nicely, think it will be a nice new feature.
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