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SURELY NOT GROUNDWORK FOR THE EXTENSION??
No - 'fraid not'. Just patching, some resurfacing and general cleaning of the runway. I'll have retired before the runway extension
Ed
No - 'fraid not'. Just patching, some resurfacing and general cleaning of the runway. I'll have retired before the runway extension
Ed
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Yes, saw a pic of it at HUY. Still to be repainted, I thought it was supposd to be coming already done in T3 livery.
ABZ been plenty busy last couple of days, loads of biz & other GA movements.
Shape of things to come when Trump, Nicklaus et al get their golf developments up & running!
(Or maybe not...)
Nice to see a GLEX in.
ABZ been plenty busy last couple of days, loads of biz & other GA movements.
Shape of things to come when Trump, Nicklaus et al get their golf developments up & running!
(Or maybe not...)
Nice to see a GLEX in.
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Scottravel
Scottravel have an initial provisional timetable for summer 2008 to Turkey.
Bodrum is down for Sats, early May-Oct.
Dalaman for Suns, late May-Oct.
Both occasions 320s of Freebird.
But, as they always say, no doubt subject to change.
Bodrum is down for Sats, early May-Oct.
Dalaman for Suns, late May-Oct.
Both occasions 320s of Freebird.
But, as they always say, no doubt subject to change.
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This year was a short season to - I can't remember!! 
- Dalaman I think!
June-Aug or something like that, with FHY A320, same operator that is down to do them next year.
Any of the ABZ lasds know why there has been so many biz jets arriving this week? Offshore Europe's been & gone!
- Dalaman I think! June-Aug or something like that, with FHY A320, same operator that is down to do them next year.
Any of the ABZ lasds know why there has been so many biz jets arriving this week? Offshore Europe's been & gone!
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Football maybe.The Dons are back in Europe for about 5 mins.
As far as Turkey it was a very short season to Dalaman.What's proposed looks a lot better for next year.It will be interesting to see if it stays the way it's published.Probably will since GSM aren't involved.
As far as Turkey it was a very short season to Dalaman.What's proposed looks a lot better for next year.It will be interesting to see if it stays the way it's published.Probably will since GSM aren't involved.
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Ah well, nice to see the Dnipro YAK42 anyway!
One of my colleagues flew back recently on bmi, LHR-ABZ. Said the plane looked less than half full.
How are bmi doing these days overall on LHR-ABZ? Are the lion's share of pax still hooked onto BA?
One of my colleagues flew back recently on bmi, LHR-ABZ. Said the plane looked less than half full.
How are bmi doing these days overall on LHR-ABZ? Are the lion's share of pax still hooked onto BA?
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Low flying Yak
You obviously weren't under his flightpath when they departed ABZ early Fri morning!! Sounded like the bugger cleared my chimney by about 5ft 
Bring back the iron curtain I say
Bring back the iron curtain I say
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Pretty sure Flightline do it themselves - servisair look after Loganair, Ryanair and Easyjet - according to the Evening Express
p.s. Mind you servisair do seem to handle the last Flightline headed North after the Broomfield staff finish for the day.
p.s. Mind you servisair do seem to handle the last Flightline headed North after the Broomfield staff finish for the day.
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Servisair/Airway Handling do the following at the moment:-
Flightline - baggage, pushback and occasional check in
Ryanair - full service
Easyjet - full service
Loganair - full service
Flybe - full service
Monarch - full service
Spanair - full service
Air Europa - full service
Balkan Holdays - full service
DHL - Cargo
Royal mail - Cargo
By no means a huge operation these days, however someone will have to take over the above contracts
Rumour has it Sas and Aviance are not in a position to expand at the moment
Anyhow, 90 odd pretty naffed off people around ABZ at the moment, having sweated blood over the last 18 months or so to keep the operation going at around 70% correct manning levels.
I notice the senior management (above station level) have all managed to avoid taking responsibillty (That is of course only an observation and not a criticism - seeing as I still work there for the time being!)
Flightline - baggage, pushback and occasional check in
Ryanair - full service
Easyjet - full service
Loganair - full service
Flybe - full service
Monarch - full service
Spanair - full service
Air Europa - full service
Balkan Holdays - full service
DHL - Cargo
Royal mail - Cargo
By no means a huge operation these days, however someone will have to take over the above contracts
Rumour has it Sas and Aviance are not in a position to expand at the moment Anyhow, 90 odd pretty naffed off people around ABZ at the moment, having sweated blood over the last 18 months or so to keep the operation going at around 70% correct manning levels.
I notice the senior management (above station level) have all managed to avoid taking responsibillty
(That is of course only an observation and not a criticism - seeing as I still work there for the time being!)
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See the MD of ABZ was featured in full page spread in P&J this morning.
Talking about the overall growth at ABZ experienced since the last "oil crunch".
Also spoke about the recent route withdrawals, something Mr Brown described as a "blip" & that there was no reason he could see for the bubble of growth to burst in the future.
Of interest was that they were trying to resurrect the BRU route. Would imagine someone like X9, T3 or VLM may be being approached?
Would have thought STN (& lesser extent CWL) might have been of more importance.
Said KLM had stepped into the breach since the bmr pull out by upping their own AMS freq. Nice try, but KLM fly 4x daily Su-F for most of the summer anyway (as they did last year).
Talking about the overall growth at ABZ experienced since the last "oil crunch".
Also spoke about the recent route withdrawals, something Mr Brown described as a "blip" & that there was no reason he could see for the bubble of growth to burst in the future.
Of interest was that they were trying to resurrect the BRU route. Would imagine someone like X9, T3 or VLM may be being approached?
Would have thought STN (& lesser extent CWL) might have been of more importance.
Said KLM had stepped into the breach since the bmr pull out by upping their own AMS freq. Nice try, but KLM fly 4x daily Su-F for most of the summer anyway (as they did last year).
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BA final figures farce
Echo Golf Papa Delta (for you, GAW!! 
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Quite often BA flights head up to the holding point, only for the pilots to have to wait for confirmation of the "final figures", presumably referring to load sheet, MTOW & so forth.
Is it they or Aviance that actually work this out, as I understand yesterday Aviance had to apologise to ATC as they cocked up figures which caused a BA flight to be delayed at the holding point, with a/c waiting behind.
Apparently confirmation of the figures has to be given by Berlin - why Berlin? Couple of pilots have mentioned Berlin now. Is it another example of outsourcing?
Not first time there has been a problem or query with the final figures & not first time either that the BA a/c has had to taxi on & vacate the runway until things are sorted out.
Has this situation arisen ever since BA closed their ground/handling ops & contracted it to Aviance? Don't recall BA having to wait at holding point for confirmation of figures before, certainly not pre-contracting out of handling.
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Quite often BA flights head up to the holding point, only for the pilots to have to wait for confirmation of the "final figures", presumably referring to load sheet, MTOW & so forth.
Is it they or Aviance that actually work this out, as I understand yesterday Aviance had to apologise to ATC as they cocked up figures which caused a BA flight to be delayed at the holding point, with a/c waiting behind.
Apparently confirmation of the figures has to be given by Berlin - why Berlin? Couple of pilots have mentioned Berlin now. Is it another example of outsourcing?
Not first time there has been a problem or query with the final figures & not first time either that the BA a/c has had to taxi on & vacate the runway until things are sorted out.
Has this situation arisen ever since BA closed their ground/handling ops & contracted it to Aviance? Don't recall BA having to wait at holding point for confirmation of figures before, certainly not pre-contracting out of handling.