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Originally Posted by Buster the Bear
Luton-Istanbul, will it, wont it? Maybe easyJet are in need of a route development person, one capable of announcing, selling and then delivering a new route long term having researched it first?
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Silverjet are advertising now for staff and flight crew for LTN. Each job has the following heading:
Silverjet is the new UK based airline offering luxury travel at premium economy prices with 767 aircraft fitted with 100 flat beds and a unique range of products and services. We will be operating from our base at Luton’s private jet terminal.
We will launch towards the end of 2006 with two daily flights between London and New York, followed by new routes to the Middle East, Africa and USA.
Our fleet will build to ten 767 aircraft over the next three years and we will offer our customers a true 'private jet' experience on the ground and in the air, that surpasses the standard business class service offered by other airlines.
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Just wondering how Harrods will squeeze a pair of 767’s onto their already busy south apron?
Also looking forward a couple of years, if the rumours are true that Harrods is set to move their terminal to an expanded Harrods apron by their hangars just how big will this apron need to be to handle an expanded Silverjet fleet of 10 plus the aircraft that will be shifted off the south apron.
Silverjet is the new UK based airline offering luxury travel at premium economy prices with 767 aircraft fitted with 100 flat beds and a unique range of products and services. We will be operating from our base at Luton’s private jet terminal.
We will launch towards the end of 2006 with two daily flights between London and New York, followed by new routes to the Middle East, Africa and USA.
Our fleet will build to ten 767 aircraft over the next three years and we will offer our customers a true 'private jet' experience on the ground and in the air, that surpasses the standard business class service offered by other airlines.
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Just wondering how Harrods will squeeze a pair of 767’s onto their already busy south apron?
Also looking forward a couple of years, if the rumours are true that Harrods is set to move their terminal to an expanded Harrods apron by their hangars just how big will this apron need to be to handle an expanded Silverjet fleet of 10 plus the aircraft that will be shifted off the south apron.
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Bouncy Castle?
Dashing through LTN Terminal yesterday lunchtime, I spotted what appeared to be a bouncy castle near the checkins.
As I was on my way to a flight I didnt have time to stop.
Anyone any idea what that was all about?
As I was on my way to a flight I didnt have time to stop.
Anyone any idea what that was all about?
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A very well informed bear
Well done Buster,
It certainly looks as though you've got your paw on the pulse.
One by one your predictions seem to be coming true.
Any idea what's happening with LTN - BTS and LTN - CAG ? As far as I can see, the rest of the EasyJet routes from LTN are now bookable for the winter.
It certainly looks as though you've got your paw on the pulse.
One by one your predictions seem to be coming true.
Any idea what's happening with LTN - BTS and LTN - CAG ? As far as I can see, the rest of the EasyJet routes from LTN are now bookable for the winter.
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Originally Posted by Minnie the Moocher
Dashing through LTN Terminal yesterday lunchtime, I spotted what appeared to be a bouncy castle near the checkins.
As I was on my way to a flight I didnt have time to stop.
Anyone any idea what that was all about?
As I was on my way to a flight I didnt have time to stop.
Anyone any idea what that was all about?
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The official launch party of Aer Arann’s service to Newquay in Cornwall
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Anybody know what airlines are flying the special world cup flights for tomoros game and what aircraft they are using? Couple of flights in the morning to saarbrucken and frankfurt with the carriers being BE for saarbrucken and VG for frankfurt, any ideas and if there are anymore
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Great, £999 all the way, business class, fine wines & food and end up at Luton Airport....
Great!!! Bet those Yanks are looking forward to their first views of a modern British Airport!!!
Great!!! Bet those Yanks are looking forward to their first views of a modern British Airport!!!
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Where else could they end up, taxying off the runway and be parked up and be met by a private car in 1-4 mins?????!!!!!!!
They wont have to troll through the main terminal!!
Jealous easyprison? stand 1R? or 46 on your last rotation?? U decide?
They wont have to troll through the main terminal!!
Jealous easyprison? stand 1R? or 46 on your last rotation?? U decide?
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I know!! i witnessed 10+ at the holding point B1 on many many an occasion from 7-11am, in fact it was constant!!
Poor old easy to glasgow, from request push to airbourne - nearly an hour!!!!!
Luton, Where?? OH, that quiet little london airport!!!! Really!!!!!
Poor old easy to glasgow, from request push to airbourne - nearly an hour!!!!!
Luton, Where?? OH, that quiet little london airport!!!! Really!!!!!
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...I witnessed 10+ at the holding point B1 on many many an occasion from 7-11am, in fact it was constant!!
Poor old easy to Glasgow, from request push to airbourne - nearly an hour!!!!!
Poor old easy to Glasgow, from request push to airbourne - nearly an hour!!!!!
Great, £999 all the way, business class, fine wines & food and end up at Luton Airport....
Rest assured, nobody will miss you...
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Quote - "As regards business development at LTN, these people must have been getting their intelligence briefings from the CIA..."
Same story on their PR side apparently. When I was going through the "Tinminal" (as Buster so aptly puts it) yesterday, there was a blockade of the front doors by an anti-airport NIMBY / lobby group, who I'm told were demanding to hand over an "ASBO" to the airport manager!
What a hoot! They looked like a bunch of complete wallies - but it was a clever idea and these folks are now consistently wrong footing LTN management with these sorts of quite sophisticated publicity stunts.
More to come?
Same story on their PR side apparently. When I was going through the "Tinminal" (as Buster so aptly puts it) yesterday, there was a blockade of the front doors by an anti-airport NIMBY / lobby group, who I'm told were demanding to hand over an "ASBO" to the airport manager!
What a hoot! They looked like a bunch of complete wallies - but it was a clever idea and these folks are now consistently wrong footing LTN management with these sorts of quite sophisticated publicity stunts.
More to come?
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...there was a blockade of the front doors by an anti-airport NIMBY / lobby group, who I'm told were demanding to hand over an "ASBO" to the airport manager!
On the European Day of Action on Aviation, SLAP (Stop Luton Airport Plan) staged a demonstration at the Airport during which children delivered Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) citing noise, pollution and global warming as its main misdemeanours. LADACAN supported the event which was held to coincide with demonstrations against airport expansion at Heathrow, Stansted, Southampton, Aberdeen, and Bristol as well as at airports in Belgium and France"
These people are a pathetic bunch of two-faced unprincipled idiots and to use children as a means to make a political point is utterly disgraceful.
Almost all of these people fly on business or holiday from other airports for example, Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted - so they simpy take their noise disturbance to other parts of the country; they also consume all manner of products, food and goods made abroad and air-freighted into the UK.
Their only aim in life is to preserve their own little 'patch' of real estate.
They call themselves environmentalists. You must be kidding!!!
Next time, such people should be moved on by the Police for causing an Obstruction or for behaviour likely to cause a Breach of the Peace.
Better still, have them committed...
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As for the new airspace, 08 and inbounds flying close to my house......AT LAST! 
I moved into my house years before the new airspace, so when I see a plane flying close to my house, should I phone up and congratulate Luton airport for ensuring safety, just to balance out the complaints?
An ASBO to the airport management? If these so called protesters were blocking my path, could I slap them........with another piece of useless paper?
The only paper worth contrubuting would require rubber gloves and a peg! Actually, bears don't use the stuff as they live in the woods!
I moved into my house years before the new airspace, so when I see a plane flying close to my house, should I phone up and congratulate Luton airport for ensuring safety, just to balance out the complaints?
An ASBO to the airport management? If these so called protesters were blocking my path, could I slap them........with another piece of useless paper?
The only paper worth contrubuting would require rubber gloves and a peg! Actually, bears don't use the stuff as they live in the woods!
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Originally Posted by Ametyst
I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who buy houses near an airport then do not expect the airport to expand or get busier! In fact I have no sympathy.
(I'm not defending them as they annoy me as well, just saying how the law will view it)
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CAP493 wrote:
I see that there were significant delays to Compton departures (not of Luton's making) yesterday due to parachute dropping to the west:
1) Where is this taking place please?
2) Are departures from any other airports impacted?
3) Would this be allowed if departures from Gatwick, Heathrow or Stansted were delayed ? (probably a stupid question!!).
This has nothing to do with LTN or its ATC guys but everything to do with thoroughly cr*p airspace and local route interactions, conflicts with other airports and other airspace activity, all of which that should have been sorted out two years ago but was not because nobody seems to have had their eye sufficiently on the ball.
1) Where is this taking place please?
2) Are departures from any other airports impacted?
3) Would this be allowed if departures from Gatwick, Heathrow or Stansted were delayed ? (probably a stupid question!!).
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Quote: "These people are a pathetic bunch of two-faced unprincipled idiots and to use children as a means to make a political point is utterly disgraceful".
Quite true - and they looked it too. But my point is that they are also extremely clever, have good resources and plenty of them.
If it was SLAP that organised this demo as you say, they have a working journalist advising them so it's not suprising that theyre getting the better of LTN on the PR front and at an important time for Luton.
The airport seems to have no PR. They have only issued 4 news releases on the website in the last three months, one of those was advice about rail delays and the other about the cancellation of a proposed Aer Arran service!
Quite true - and they looked it too. But my point is that they are also extremely clever, have good resources and plenty of them.
If it was SLAP that organised this demo as you say, they have a working journalist advising them so it's not suprising that theyre getting the better of LTN on the PR front and at an important time for Luton.
The airport seems to have no PR. They have only issued 4 news releases on the website in the last three months, one of those was advice about rail delays and the other about the cancellation of a proposed Aer Arran service!