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Forum: Rumours & News
24th Aug 2015, 16:43
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Spanish reaction to Irish Air Accident criticism

Still no signs of anything at all from "los chicos del ministerio en Madrí " as far as I can see.

And the Isle of Man sails on oblivious too.

¡ Glad I don't live (or fly as a passenger) in a...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2012, 17:54
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

EU registered/ not registered but operating there...

"Reminds me of China Airsea and Indocharter..."

Am I right in assuming these from the sound of their names will have been registered in Gib ?

IoM ??

Sark ???

¿ Las Malvinas ?
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2012, 17:50
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Tangled Spanish webs

"I think you will find Euro Continental Air and Airlada will eventually turn out to be run by the same people."

Whereas FlightlineBCN is not ?
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Mar 2012, 10:51
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

¿ 2 + 2 = 4 ? ¡ Not however if the companies are based in Spain !

I for one am confused by the posts from kroack both here and in the past.

The last one says:

"the crew was from airlada and the other two captains where the boss of the airlada. i think they...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Feb 2012, 13:59
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Post #1127; ownership etc

This one at least intrigues me:

"I believe the planes/buisness were owned by the other Captains.

There is the aircraft owner/Captains which provided aircraft, pilots and engineering."
...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Feb 2012, 16:14
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

"The whole thing is going to be a right mess"

I cannot help but think that the families of all concerned might well find the use of the future tense in this phrase, however understandable it might be, very unfortunate indeed.

But the...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Feb 2012, 08:45
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Court location

Dublin ?

Belfast ? London ?

Madrid ? Barcelona ? Seville ?

Brussels ?

Douglas ???
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Feb 2012, 13:39
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Laconic style of Irish Authorities

They state baldly and blandly that the operator was unable to furnish them with the "FDR data frame layout which is required to decode the FDR recording" and that they had to seek this from the...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Feb 2012, 13:04
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

APOLOGY plus concern re status of "Ticket seller"

I am of course wrong and this is indeed the new, updated, interim report.
Apologies.


I was partly misled by monitoring the Irish media who seem not to have reacted to this update. Or they...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Feb 2012, 11:02
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Back to the future

Thanks for the link.
From last year, however.

I presume that the previous post alluded to a new report; due today 7th Feb 2012
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Jun 2011, 14:03
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

"Thanks" + press coverage + ongoing mysteries

I did not originate the correct link either technically or indeed in discovery terms. I chanced to spot it elsewhere in a section of this board which I don´t normally visit.

I had intended to...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th May 2011, 11:43
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Thanks for the link

Moltes gràcies.

Muchas gracias.

...and as for the content ?

What it tells you about the attempts by the EU to control non-EU i.e.Manx based airlines or ticket sellers or who knows what...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th May 2011, 11:03
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Finding the EASA report mentioning Air Lada etc

Ignoring the major sub-divisions in orange on the front page, we are posting within "Rumours and news" which is the first specific forum on the front page of this website.

If you count down to...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th May 2011, 09:57
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Full (?) details of EASA report published 19 Apr on Spanish buck passing re AOC

I have been trying to locate this for some time without success.

It has been posted recently elsewhere on these boards however.

Specifically within the section Miscellaneous/ Airlines,...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd May 2011, 11:00
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Erroneous companies and importance of knowing who is who in Spanish aviation

I acept the errors of having linked some companies mentioned; this was implicit/ explicit in my last post I feel.

I remain interested in the links between those companies which I mentioned...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st May 2011, 07:52
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Speculation about Spanish aviation

..."my latest take is that..." and "...strongly indicates..."

shows that I am working in the dark and that I have no insight/ special knowledge into/ of Spanish aviation, as I have clearly stated...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th May 2011, 21:25
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

More links....

A cursory search for the company Tadair, mentioned previously, strongly indicates that Tadair was in fact the commercial transport branch of Top Fly flying school.

¿ Small world the Spanish...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th May 2011, 20:35
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Spanish airline companies: connected/ unconnected/ disconnected ?

The plot thickens.

My latest take is that

Air Lada is just another name for L A de A.
Flysur is/ was another name for the same thing.
TAER Andalus likewise.

So we have 4 names at least...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th May 2011, 10:50
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

"Well self-regulated markets"

Thanks for the additional info.

I, for one, add the above quote to my long list of oxymorons; still headed by military intelligence.
Forum: Rumours & News
20th May 2011, 08:59
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Spanish national sports: Soccer and Metroliner crashing (?)

For those of us on the ground, both metaphorically and literally, it would be interesting to have some background figures to allow our own risk analysis.

Do Spanish pilots have a disproportionate...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2011, 11:25
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Air Lada = "L A de A" remains my hypothesis. ...

Air Lada = "L A de A" remains my hypothesis.

ALA, mentioned in Wikipedia and much earlier by myself, possibly from the same Wikipedia source, is different, is bankrupt and is "not part of this...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2011, 10:24
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Air Lada etc

Thanks.

I now accept now that Air Lada and "L A de A" are the same thing. Though why the coyness ????

The article on Wikipedia does quote one intriguing name which would lift us from the 5th...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2011, 09:13
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Details of Spotlight programme

Many thanks.

Obviously the triangle on (non) responsibility is the core of the issue.

It seems like an attempt to organise a piss up in a brewery where everyone presumed that everyone else...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2011, 06:59
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

BBC (NI) Spotlight programme: AIR LADA´s lack of visibility

Despite my confident post, nothing came out of the ether.

Could anyone who watched this closely tell me how the BBC deals with the issue of not being able to contact Air Lada. Do they for...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th May 2011, 16:32
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Reply to BOAC

Thanks for the info.

"Grey area..." Perhaps we should offer this to the TEFL operatives of the world as an example of "typical English/ British understatement" ?
Forum: Rumours & News
18th May 2011, 10:33
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Question to BOAC

"Air Lada not listed as a 'Spanish' operator by Aviation Safety Network and considered to be 'not a certified air carrier' by the EU"

Given the expression which you posted as above, and given my...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th May 2011, 09:49
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Question for Kroack (BCN)

Can you tell us anything about Air Lada ?
Forum: Rumours & News
18th May 2011, 09:26
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

BBC programme TV vs Radio

TV programme from last night not easily available in Spain

But earlier BBC radio programme, Radio 4 "Face the facts" broadcast 2 or 3 weeks ago is available.

(Check the last 4 or 5 pages here...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th May 2011, 22:53
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Air Lada: does it exist ? If it does then where ?

Sadly I didn´t sort out the technology ....but I did read the BBC press release/ written trailer related to the programme. Moreover I do see the programme is due to be repeated on BBC 2 (NI) at 23:20...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th May 2011, 13:34
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Links (if any) between Euro Continental and Flightline

I used a website
www.einforma.com (http://www.einforma.com)

which is a standard search engine for low-level commercial investigation in Spain.

It indicates that Euro C was founded near...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th May 2011, 14:52
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Local Spanish reporting of Flightline(BCN)

Many thanks for the local info.

You mention one other company name and suspect they may be linked. I´ll see if I can use my fairly rudimentary skills to check some of the names.

Earlier I had...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2011, 17:38
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Alphabet soup correction above.

My first reference above should be to AESA/EASA...and my second reference to EASA whom I approached by email and who gave the the EU-wide statistics which I quoted.

Apologies
Forum: Rumours & News
6th May 2011, 16:24
Replies: 1,357
Views: 811,009
Posted By BigFrank

Reply to Daerman ATC

I tried on the net to find the source of the BBC radio documentary claim, similar to the one in your Spanish link, that AEAS/EASA were concerned about the safety record of FlightlineBCN but I drew a...
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