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Not with the number of flights planned on Tuesday, and especially Wednesday, they won't be able to ! I'd expect to see the football flights in after 0700, as that is when all the nightstopping stuff goes out (mainly between 0600-0700). However one of the baby B733's don't leave generally til 0900 at least, plus the bmi A319/20 leaves at 0755. I'd imagine they'll be using some of St6/7/8 as well
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First departure on Wednesday is 0445 local (Eagle aviation A300). All wide bodies will use stand 1 (LTU, CRL & XLA), stands 6-8 will also be used by LTU, CSA, Eirjet, City Star and Eirjet, the rest using 2-5RR after the night stoppers have departed. Busses are being brought in to coach the pax to the Western Apron.
Most flights are operating to LGG and CGN as the flights from SVQ will be operating into EIN. Only the team (BD A321) will operate from MME to EIN. (and back again, hopefully with the cup !).
Most flights are operating to LGG and CGN as the flights from SVQ will be operating into EIN. Only the team (BD A321) will operate from MME to EIN. (and back again, hopefully with the cup !).
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Please direct posts regarding the football related flights (which actually involve several airfields) to the thread now established in: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=225177
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Well its back to normal now after weds and thurs,...things seem to have went ok,with a few delays,(understandable)!...
The local rag had a piece tonight about the airport trying to restart the Belfast service,2 daily.....airport in talks with various airlines,...anybody know anything?......Hopefully an operater can be found,(flybe anyone?),..
Keep the faith
(4-nil!!!!..)
Holgate
The local rag had a piece tonight about the airport trying to restart the Belfast service,2 daily.....airport in talks with various airlines,...anybody know anything?......Hopefully an operater can be found,(flybe anyone?),..
Keep the faith
(4-nil!!!!..)Holgate
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The latest information I have shows the based TOM operating to Ibiza as a W pattern therefore leaving at 0735 and returning home at 2135 on a Monday. The Corfu is down to operate on Friday leaving at 0850, returning home at 1635. Times at the end are times at the destination
Thomsonfly.com
Ibiza 0735 2135 1------ TOM1243/1244 1120/1955
Alicante 0710 1355 -2----- TOM6821/6822 1055/1155
Tenerife South 1525 0125+1 -2----- TOM5067/5068 2005/2105
Paphos 0900 1925 --3---- TOM4153/4154 1535/1635
Palma 0700 1330 ---4--- TOM5073/5074 1040/1140
Dalaman 1600 0125+1 ---4--- TOM4683/4684 2205/2305
Corfu 0850 1635 ----5-- TOM1931/1932 1405/1505
Bourgas 1800 0200+1 ----5-- TOM6253/6254 2330/0030
Mahon 0705 1320 -----6- TOM4733/4734 1040/1140
Reus 1450 2035 -----6- TOM2147/2148 1810/1910
Palma 2205 0435+1 -----6- TOM5137/5138 0145/0245
Malaga 0745 1450 ------7 TOM2241/2242 1150/1250
Palma 1620 2250 ------7 TOM2901/2902 2000/2100
Thomsonfly.com
Ibiza 0735 2135 1------ TOM1243/1244 1120/1955
Alicante 0710 1355 -2----- TOM6821/6822 1055/1155
Tenerife South 1525 0125+1 -2----- TOM5067/5068 2005/2105
Paphos 0900 1925 --3---- TOM4153/4154 1535/1635
Palma 0700 1330 ---4--- TOM5073/5074 1040/1140
Dalaman 1600 0125+1 ---4--- TOM4683/4684 2205/2305
Corfu 0850 1635 ----5-- TOM1931/1932 1405/1505
Bourgas 1800 0200+1 ----5-- TOM6253/6254 2330/0030
Mahon 0705 1320 -----6- TOM4733/4734 1040/1140
Reus 1450 2035 -----6- TOM2147/2148 1810/1910
Palma 2205 0435+1 -----6- TOM5137/5138 0145/0245
Malaga 0745 1450 ------7 TOM2241/2242 1150/1250
Palma 1620 2250 ------7 TOM2901/2902 2000/2100
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Yesterday the airport was voted the best in the north according to a survey done by cheapflights.co.uk, coming first ahead of Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Humberside and Doncaster........how, I don't know but they did!
Also, does anyone know if the ski flight to Lyon or Grenoble is running this winter (2006/7) ??
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Also, does anyone know if the ski flight to Lyon or Grenoble is running this winter (2006/7) ??
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Was reading the Northern Echo today and was angered with the following article. The newspaper has always seemed anti MME and this just adds to this. This time the way the article read and the headlines and map of one of the journeys undertaken by a passenger just screamed that bmibaby had treated passengers unfairly.
I wonder if they will report on the cancellation of the Newcastle to Alicante service and if they do it will probably be made out that it was no ones fault and that these things happen.
After 2,000 miles, pensioner is back to square one
A PENSIONER who spent 48 hours travelling more than 2,000 miles ended up back where she started - at a North-East airport.
Flights between Durham Tees Valley Airport and Jersey were cancelled over the bank holiday weekend because of thick fog on the island.
That left about 500 holiday-makers - many from the North-East and North Yorkshire - stranded for up to 48 hours.
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The poor weather also meant Shirley Tadier, 66, was unable return home to Jersey - despite two attempts.
She was due to fly home with bmibaby at 9.55am on Thursday, after visiting her father and sister in Carlisle, Cumbria, but ended up staying at a friend's house in Darlington.
The plane made two attempts to land on Jersey, but the fog proved too thick and it returned to Durham Tees Valley.
The airline provided a hotel, before passengers were picked up at 4.30am on Friday and taken to the airport for a second flight, at 7am. But that flight was then cancelled and the passengers were put on a bus at 10.30am for Birmingham airport.
At 3.30pm, they took off from Birmingham - only to be thwarted again by the fog when they reached Jersey. After refuelling at Bournemouth, the plane flew to Durham Tees Valley.
Passengers were then given the option of booking a new flight scheduled for tomorrow - the earliest available - or compensation, but Mrs Tadier said she was not offered any further hotel accommodation.
She said: "I have got a very good friend in Darlington - without her, I would have been sleeping at the airport all night.
"I know it isn't anyone's fault and Jersey is notorious, but to come back and be handed a sheet of paper saying you can get back - but not until Tuesday and we can't give you any more refreshments or accommodation - goodbye."
Biddy and John Breen, both 70, from Stokesley, North Yorkshire, found themselves stranded on Jersey after a week's holiday.
After their Thursday morning flight was cancelled, the airline organised a ferry and coach back to Durham Tees Valley, eventually arriving back in the region at 10.30am yesterday.
However, bmibaby put them up in a five-star hotel for the two extra nights and gave them refreshment vouchers.
Mr Breen said: "People were pretty sore about it."
Other passengers were angered by being delayed by 24 hours - before being told that once the fog lifted they would be flown to Birmingham and then bussed back to Durham Tees Valley.
Eric Atkinson, 71, of Durham, said: "Do you know what a doormat is? Well that's what bmi have treated us like - a blasted doormat."
A spokeswoman from Durham Tees Valley Airport said: "I think that the airline did everything they could to get from the airport to Jersey. But unfortunately, due to the weather, they were unable to do that."
No one from bmibaby was available for comment yesterday
I wonder if they will report on the cancellation of the Newcastle to Alicante service and if they do it will probably be made out that it was no ones fault and that these things happen.
After 2,000 miles, pensioner is back to square one
A PENSIONER who spent 48 hours travelling more than 2,000 miles ended up back where she started - at a North-East airport.
Flights between Durham Tees Valley Airport and Jersey were cancelled over the bank holiday weekend because of thick fog on the island.
That left about 500 holiday-makers - many from the North-East and North Yorkshire - stranded for up to 48 hours.
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The poor weather also meant Shirley Tadier, 66, was unable return home to Jersey - despite two attempts.
She was due to fly home with bmibaby at 9.55am on Thursday, after visiting her father and sister in Carlisle, Cumbria, but ended up staying at a friend's house in Darlington.
The plane made two attempts to land on Jersey, but the fog proved too thick and it returned to Durham Tees Valley.
The airline provided a hotel, before passengers were picked up at 4.30am on Friday and taken to the airport for a second flight, at 7am. But that flight was then cancelled and the passengers were put on a bus at 10.30am for Birmingham airport.
At 3.30pm, they took off from Birmingham - only to be thwarted again by the fog when they reached Jersey. After refuelling at Bournemouth, the plane flew to Durham Tees Valley.
Passengers were then given the option of booking a new flight scheduled for tomorrow - the earliest available - or compensation, but Mrs Tadier said she was not offered any further hotel accommodation.
She said: "I have got a very good friend in Darlington - without her, I would have been sleeping at the airport all night.
"I know it isn't anyone's fault and Jersey is notorious, but to come back and be handed a sheet of paper saying you can get back - but not until Tuesday and we can't give you any more refreshments or accommodation - goodbye."
Biddy and John Breen, both 70, from Stokesley, North Yorkshire, found themselves stranded on Jersey after a week's holiday.
After their Thursday morning flight was cancelled, the airline organised a ferry and coach back to Durham Tees Valley, eventually arriving back in the region at 10.30am yesterday.
However, bmibaby put them up in a five-star hotel for the two extra nights and gave them refreshment vouchers.
Mr Breen said: "People were pretty sore about it."
Other passengers were angered by being delayed by 24 hours - before being told that once the fog lifted they would be flown to Birmingham and then bussed back to Durham Tees Valley.
Eric Atkinson, 71, of Durham, said: "Do you know what a doormat is? Well that's what bmi have treated us like - a blasted doormat."
A spokeswoman from Durham Tees Valley Airport said: "I think that the airline did everything they could to get from the airport to Jersey. But unfortunately, due to the weather, they were unable to do that."
No one from bmibaby was available for comment yesterday
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Bit of paranoia here I feel. Haven't seen this story before now, but then don't read your local papers. The story just seems one of the very day yarns that reporters of the local rags churn out. Doesn't seem like anything personal, and it reads that everyone did all that was reasonably possible.
I personally don't think NCL has any better or worse treatment. I'm sure that if a reporter got an insight into a worthwhile human angle on the Easy NCL -ALC then it would be published.
To add further substance to this it's only a couple of weeks since the the Newcastle journal ran a ludicrous front page headline about a near miss at NCL when a light aircraft strayed onto the runway, when in fact the Easy was about 3 -4 miles on the ILS and did a standard go around. The paper recieved some serious flack from the head of the ATC as to their editorial.
Bit of paranoia here I feel. Haven't seen this story before now, but then don't read your local papers. The story just seems one of the very day yarns that reporters of the local rags churn out. Doesn't seem like anything personal, and it reads that everyone did all that was reasonably possible.
I personally don't think NCL has any better or worse treatment. I'm sure that if a reporter got an insight into a worthwhile human angle on the Easy NCL -ALC then it would be published.
To add further substance to this it's only a couple of weeks since the the Newcastle journal ran a ludicrous front page headline about a near miss at NCL when a light aircraft strayed onto the runway, when in fact the Easy was about 3 -4 miles on the ILS and did a standard go around. The paper recieved some serious flack from the head of the ATC as to their editorial.
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Skyman it was the way the newspaper had set out the article more than anything else. It was purely set out to make an impact and the best way that could be achieved was by making out that bmibaby had done something wrong and it was their fault. The Northern Echo does seem to have a anti MME stance. By the way the Northern Echo still hasn't reported on the NCL-ALC cancellation. Its just annoying when a local paper has a go at the airport and the airline when they have done nothing wrong. If they had done somthing wrong by all means slate them. The paper is suppose to suport the local area and the airport is doing just that. All that will happen now is people will ahv seen the article read the headline and the first few lines and said i'm not using bmibaby or Durham Tees Valley airport again, thus losing the airport business.
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I read the story in the Sun newspaper and I have to say it is slightly amusing at the omission of certain facts. Apparently it was the pilot who decided it was too foggy to land at Jersey. I was on duty on both days the flight tried to operate, and the METAR at EGJJ when the first flight returned was along the lines of RVR 700, OVC000. Not sure what Jersey's Airport Operating Minima are, but even if the airport was open, it would be BMI Baby who set the individual crew operating minima??? Therefore it wouldn't have been a decision the pilot could have made on his own? (Please correct if I am wrong here).
Secondly, the paper reported the second flight flew Birmingham to Jersey, couldn't land so diverted to DTV. Incorrect. It landed in Bournemouth where I have it on good authority passengers were offered the chance to continue their journey's on their own accord or they could return to DTVA on the B735 which arrived back later that evening before positioning back to Brum.
God love the tabloids and bitter passengers wanting to sell their stories!
-HD-
Secondly, the paper reported the second flight flew Birmingham to Jersey, couldn't land so diverted to DTV. Incorrect. It landed in Bournemouth where I have it on good authority passengers were offered the chance to continue their journey's on their own accord or they could return to DTVA on the B735 which arrived back later that evening before positioning back to Brum.
God love the tabloids and bitter passengers wanting to sell their stories!
-HD-
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couldn't agree more. Its like the story in the Gazette the other week about the disruptive passenger on the Onur - Dalaman flight.
In both these instances I do not know about you but my first instinct wouldn't be to ring 1. The newsdesk of a news paper 2. My solicitor unfortunately the tabloid / compensation culture is here to stay
couldn't agree more. Its like the story in the Gazette the other week about the disruptive passenger on the Onur - Dalaman flight.
In both these instances I do not know about you but my first instinct wouldn't be to ring 1. The newsdesk of a news paper 2. My solicitor unfortunately the tabloid / compensation culture is here to stay