Look out in the coming months for more exciting outages. Yes not only are the ILS DME's being replaced, but some bright spark has decided to replace all the ILSs' themselves over the winter months during the next 12 - 18 of them!!
Standby one and all for diversions out.
What a loyal bunch of airlines we have, putting up with runways that regularly break-up or are slippery when wet. Taxiways that are crumbling before your very eyes, if you stand in the AVP and look infront of you!
Airbridges that fall on your aircraft. Parking systems that are so outdated the candles keep blowing out!
A perfectly good runway that is shut considerably more time than it is open on a daily basis, thus ensuring that the decrepit old one gets a hammering.
No wonder that loyalty is proving too much for some of them during these hard times. Still with less traffic using the place it may just be able to stay usable, unless the man at CAA aerodrome inspectorate is to come looking again!
Do other UK airfields suffer from as many closures due to runway problems as Manchester does? Not heard of many.
