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Old 27th Dec 2018, 20:03
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tubby linton
 
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Birmingham is an airport where the management has sweated the assets to appease their shareholders. The lack of investment and poor management was quite staggering.
Having been based there the standard of atc was at best mediocre and it was quite common to be turned onto the ILS at least 1500 feet high.
The farce over the runway extension and the continued non availability of the glideslope on 33 for what is now running into years is indicative of the shambles engenedered by the senior management. Whilst they were doing this they decided to close the short route through the hedge into the staff car park. Rather than put in a proper entrance the airport put in cctv to monitor anybody using this short route and take away ID cards of anybody caught using it.
I am not surprised that there has been an infrastructure failure, but I bet the last Chief Exec left with a nice bonus.
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