HEATHROW
Heathrow planning inquiry opens 2nd June
Nothing to do with R3, this is the public inquiry re Heathrow's appeal against Hillingdon's refusal to grant the planning application for the infrastructure works to support post-Cranford easterly alternation.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/upl...y-schedule.pdf
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/upl...y-schedule.pdf
QF to be fined?
Qantas risks large fines, losing slots at Heathrow for late A380s: internal memo
The late arrival of the A380s at Heathrow resulted in Qantas' on-time performance slipping to 75th out of 80 airlines that flew to Europe's busiest airport in February.
"As a result of our performance, London airport has given Qantas an official warning; meaning that we could be fined £20,000 for each non-compliance of our slot time, or worse lose our slot"
The late arrival of the A380s at Heathrow resulted in Qantas' on-time performance slipping to 75th out of 80 airlines that flew to Europe's busiest airport in February.
"As a result of our performance, London airport has given Qantas an official warning; meaning that we could be fined £20,000 for each non-compliance of our slot time, or worse lose our slot"
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Aerolineas Argentinas will operate a total of 4 flights between 18SEP15 and 18OCT15 to LHR. Could this be AR testing the market to see if there is demand for another carrier on the LHR-EZE route with 2 of the flights operating via BCN and via FCO. The flights will operate as follows.
AR1936 EZE 22:55 - 17:20(+1) LHR 19:00(+1) - BCN 22:55 343(+1) (18SEP)
AR1161 BCN 00:15 EZE 08:55 343 (19SEP)
AR1160 EZE 22:55 BCN 16:35(+1) 343 (25SEP)
AR1937 BCN 18:25 - 19:55 LHR 21:50 - EZE 09:00(+1) 343 (26SEP)
AR1938 EZE 22:40 - 17:05(+1) LHR 18:40(+1) - FCO 22:30(+1) 343 (09OCT)
AR1143 FCO 19:25 EZE 05:00(+1) 343 (11OCT)
AR1140 EZE 22:35 FCO 17:10(+1) 343 (17OCT)
AR1939 FCO 19:05 - 20:55 LHR 22:45 - EZE 09:55(+1) 343 (18OCT)
The flights will be operated by a 284 seat A340-300. AR's A343's are configured in a 2 class configuration of 32J/252Y
AR1936 EZE 22:55 - 17:20(+1) LHR 19:00(+1) - BCN 22:55 343(+1) (18SEP)
AR1161 BCN 00:15 EZE 08:55 343 (19SEP)
AR1160 EZE 22:55 BCN 16:35(+1) 343 (25SEP)
AR1937 BCN 18:25 - 19:55 LHR 21:50 - EZE 09:00(+1) 343 (26SEP)
AR1938 EZE 22:40 - 17:05(+1) LHR 18:40(+1) - FCO 22:30(+1) 343 (09OCT)
AR1143 FCO 19:25 EZE 05:00(+1) 343 (11OCT)
AR1140 EZE 22:35 FCO 17:10(+1) 343 (17OCT)
AR1939 FCO 19:05 - 20:55 LHR 22:45 - EZE 09:55(+1) 343 (18OCT)
The flights will be operated by a 284 seat A340-300. AR's A343's are configured in a 2 class configuration of 32J/252Y
US Preclearance
I have just read that the US is considering extending preclearance to Heathrow & Manchester.
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
I have just read that the US is considering extending preclearance to Heathrow & Manchester.
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
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Rothschilds? Not sure how much influence the family still have but Zac Goldsmith, MP for SW London and prospective London may is firmly against R£ (and married to one of the Rothschilds).
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US Preclearance
I have just read that the US is considering extending preclearance to Heathrow & Manchester.
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
I have just read that the US is considering extending preclearance to Heathrow & Manchester.
US Considers Expanding Airport Preclearance
My question is how will it work at LHR. Presumably you would require dedicated gates & concourses. Fine if you dedicate a concourse of T5 & a wing of T4, etc, but very hard in practise without building new infrastructure as there are not many spare gates. Could you build an additional US preclearance story above the existing concourse? It could be incorporated into the "toast rack" in the long term but what of the medium term? Any thoughts as to the feasibility anyone?
Could indeed dedicate one of the "toast racks", for this. It would probably have to be one of those that will be built on the present Heathrow-3 site after demolition so that it could be accessed from both Heathrow-5 and Heathrow-1/2.
This means that the underground transit railway would need to run all the way between Heathrow-5A and Heathrow-2C, but access from Heathrow-4 would be problematic.
Also, it would have to be a very big, well-staffed and efficient facility, with long opening hours, to cope with the numbers bearing in mind the amount of flights to the USA.
Looks like the proposed pre-clearance facility at the rebuilt Ringway-2 is going to be simpler to organise and probably the first in the UK to open.
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Willie Walsh has said that Heathrow will never get USPC, but it is a possibility in Madrid. He says Dublin was built with USPC in mind, no other EU Airport has so that makes it difficult.
Paxing All Over The World
Today: visited T2 to greet friends. Not my first visit and all went well until I went to pay for the parking.
The machine's main screen invites you to insert your Debit/credit card and, lower down, the PIN screen flashes the same message. There is a fixed decal sign pointing to the conventional card slot.
After inserting card - the machine continues telling me to insert card. So I remove and repeate the process. The machine still tells me to insert the card.
Happily, before machine rage erupted, a member of staff arrived and said that the machince actually wanted me to insert the Debit/Credit card in the same slot as the original paper ticket.
He was polite and helpful and said that no one understood this.
I mean What The Blankety-Blank??
I was on a different floor to ones I have used before so perhaps that was it? How can they do that - when right alongside is the very smart 'find your cars parking place by your number plate' machine? On leaving the park, the gate did not recognise my number plate (as on all previous occaisions) and I had to fumble for the ticket. Sheesh!
The machine's main screen invites you to insert your Debit/credit card and, lower down, the PIN screen flashes the same message. There is a fixed decal sign pointing to the conventional card slot.
After inserting card - the machine continues telling me to insert card. So I remove and repeate the process. The machine still tells me to insert the card.
Happily, before machine rage erupted, a member of staff arrived and said that the machince actually wanted me to insert the Debit/Credit card in the same slot as the original paper ticket.
He was polite and helpful and said that no one understood this.
I mean What The Blankety-Blank??
I was on a different floor to ones I have used before so perhaps that was it? How can they do that - when right alongside is the very smart 'find your cars parking place by your number plate' machine? On leaving the park, the gate did not recognise my number plate (as on all previous occaisions) and I had to fumble for the ticket. Sheesh!
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It only works from Dublin because you are going towards America. Unfortunately I can't see too many people flying to Madrid for preclearnace.
It's great to get preclearance but its not the end of the world if you don't get it, i'm not going to detour for hours just to get it.
You would be going off track by 1,000 miles just to go through immigration. It doesn't seem worth it to me.
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What would be the point in doing that? You would be going off track by 1,000 miles just to go through immigration. It doesn't seem worth it to me.
It only works from Dublin because you are going towards America. Unfortunately I can't see too many people flying to Madrid for preclearnace.
It's great to get preclearance but its not the end of the world if you don't get it, i'm not going to detour for hours just to get it.
It only works from Dublin because you are going towards America. Unfortunately I can't see too many people flying to Madrid for preclearnace.
It's great to get preclearance but its not the end of the world if you don't get it, i'm not going to detour for hours just to get it.
People won’t fly from the UK to MAD for pre-clearance, but it may attract pax from southern Europe to fly on IB, just like it is expected that some pax from northern Europe may use EI with pre-clearance at DUB.
Willie Walsh is the head honcho of IAG and that includes IB as well as BA.
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