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Old 28th Jan 2019, 05:42
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El Bunto
 
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Originally Posted by cuthere
Like BFS, LDY isn’t in the actual city it serves. If Flybe were in Derry, then they missed the airport by seven miles.
If you want to get pedantic then no-one actually flies to 'LDY', that's just an internal IATA code for ticketing and bag routing. You can't write that on a flight plan and you can't ask ATC for vectors to it. The approach plates say LONDONDERRY EGLINTON EGAE

Aren't technicalities fun?
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