Originally Posted by
groundhogbhx
I've been hearing on the grapevine that Brits or what ever they call themselves this week are to pull their longhaul from BHX!! The reason being that the -200's are going to Silverjet and the -300's can't lift enough freight across the pond because of the length of the runway. If this turns out to be true surely it has got to be time for the BIA management to wake up and get on with extending the runway
How much more traffic are they willing to lose to EMA before something gets done
Just a thought on this one, it is a very rare occurrence that a 767-200 will be used by TOM on a longhaul route these days out of BHX (The last one I can remember is a one-off FLL flight last winter). The furthest they normall stretch is the Cyprus / Turkey routes in the couple of months that one is based in summer. None the less, when the 767-200 are sold off, where will the extra European route capacity come from?
Also remembering that the summer based 767-300 also does the ACE, PFO, PMI*2, IBZ, GRO, should we lose longhaul will these routes be downgraded to a smaller aircraft or are we likely to see more W pattern flights rather than BHX based aircraft?