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EAST MIDLANDS - 3
East Midlands - 2 here. http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=230974
Anyone know about whether or ot the BA (GB Airways) TFS will continue on into Summer 07?
It is a new route for BRS and EMA, and I notice from ba . com that BRS is available to book next summer. As yet not EMA.
The flights will be A321 with LGW based crew. They will fly LGW-TFS, nightstop, TFS - EMA - TFS, Nightstop, TFS - BRS - TFS, nightstop, TFS - LGW and then sleep a lot
Come on Phil_2405 - impress us all with the size of your knowledge 
Anyone know about whether or ot the BA (GB Airways) TFS will continue on into Summer 07?
It is a new route for BRS and EMA, and I notice from ba . com that BRS is available to book next summer. As yet not EMA.
The flights will be A321 with LGW based crew. They will fly LGW-TFS, nightstop, TFS - EMA - TFS, Nightstop, TFS - BRS - TFS, nightstop, TFS - LGW and then sleep a lot
Come on Phil_2405 - impress us all with the size of your knowledge
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A look at FCA for Summer 07 sees Cancun on Mondays, Puerta Plata on Tuesdays, Punta Cana on Tuesdays and Sanford on Wednesdays. Can't see Varadero, as suggested above. 
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Oh yeah - and there it is - Varadero departing 1120 on Sundays.
With a laughaul departure on Sun, Mon, Tues and Wed will there be a FCA 767 based at EMA next summer?
With a laughaul departure on Sun, Mon, Tues and Wed will there be a FCA 767 based at EMA next summer?
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Scaffolding all around the main terminal, Checker Cars' office moved to make way for new shopping mall/arrivals hall, lots of new Ryanair routes ... summer 2007 is going to look very exciting as it is, and we're not even at the end of summer 2006 yet!
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We could do with an official thread photographer....any volunteers? 
(that's someone who can take pics for this thread, as opposed to someone who takes pictures of thread)
(that's someone who can take pics for this thread, as opposed to someone who takes pictures of thread)
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Bring back the croc pot !!!
I know change is a must, cos the airport is a bloody mess at the moment, but I can't help thinking how great it was back in the 80's.
Staff car park right next to the teminal. The "Greasy spoon", The Croc pot cafe, the tiny baggage belt by the domestic arrivals door, The holiday shop in the corner by the baggage office, flea-ridden check-in desks, shellsuits as far as the eye could see, British Midland a/c lined up on the ramp and Mike Bradbury...oh, 'ang on, he's still there, of course !
Jeez, I'm getting old !
I know change is a must, cos the airport is a bloody mess at the moment, but I can't help thinking how great it was back in the 80's.
Staff car park right next to the teminal. The "Greasy spoon", The Croc pot cafe, the tiny baggage belt by the domestic arrivals door, The holiday shop in the corner by the baggage office, flea-ridden check-in desks, shellsuits as far as the eye could see, British Midland a/c lined up on the ramp and Mike Bradbury...oh, 'ang on, he's still there, of course !
Jeez, I'm getting old !
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Deja vu, here we go again. BBC East Midlands teletext were tonight reporting that EMA is considering a name change at a meeting they will be holding in December.
Guess they must have read my recent post
My 10ps worth, "East Midlands International Airport" Yes, I know
Guess they must have read my recent post
My 10ps worth, "East Midlands International Airport" Yes, I know
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Bearing in mind the current vogue of naming after people - surely "Brian Clough Old Bighead Airport" must be in the running (though no doubt the other City will want Gary Lineker International!)
(though no doubt the other City will want Gary Lineker International!)
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'East Midlands International Airport'
Deja Vu...... the original name if memory serves....
And why would any business want to be called after the murder capital of the North? I know the reasons why, but there were so many other 'why not!'
BTW any particular reason my back yard was filled with fumes last night? Who was spewing at the west end of the airport?
Usually only happens in Summer...........
Deja Vu...... the original name if memory serves....
And why would any business want to be called after the murder capital of the North? I know the reasons why, but there were so many other 'why not!'
BTW any particular reason my back yard was filled with fumes last night? Who was spewing at the west end of the airport?
Usually only happens in Summer...........
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Let us all pray the airport doesn't get some pointless celebrity name tag.
There are a few quotes on the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham that strike me as odd, for example:
""Michael Copestake, of Marketing Derby, said: "It hasn't helped the East Midlands to develop itself as a region and that has been a problem.
"If we are going to promote the East Midlands as an area to do business in, if we've got the main airport that doesn't carry that logo it doesn't achieve that objective." ""
The last time I looked at the terminal front, the airport's website, it marketing material, the words east and midlands were written all over it.
The most important thing is clarity. And it is a fact that at the moment some websites list the airport as :
FR - East Midlands (EMA) in its booking drop down list, but regularly refer to it as Nottingham (East Midlands) in its marketing, including the big poster in the check-in hall.
EZY - Nottingham East Midlands (EMA) on its drop down, East Midlands on its route map (with the dot hovering somewhere over Stratford on Avon!)
WW - Nottingham East Midlands (EMA) on its dropdowns, Nottingham EMA on its route map.
TOM - Nottingham East Midlands on the dropdown, Nottingham on the route map.
T3 - Nottingham (EMA) on the dropdowns, Nottingham on the route map.
As regards the arrivals/departures displays at other airports:-
ALC is showing both WW and EZY flight s to/from NOTTINGHAM/EAST MIDLANDS
EDI is showing WW flights as to/from NOTTINGHAM
DUB is showing FR flights to/from EAST MIDLANDS
GRO is showing FR flights to/from NOTTINGHAM/EASTMIDLANDS
BRU is showing BD flights as to/from Nottingham
It could be a good idea if the airport sticks with one name but actively encouraged a standard across all websites and airports to display the name.
It should either be listed under E, or N, in the dropdowns, and the same name used on route maps (preferably with the 'dot' roughly in the middle of Derby/Nottingham/Leicester - easyJet take note!)
I have not found any other region with the same amount of parochial rivalry as exists between Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. So no doubt we will have to endure the next 2 months of pointless headlines in the Evening Telegraph, the Post and the Mercury, all scrapping over words and a vain loyalaty to a city - what's the point in that??? Surely it benefits all, businesses, holiday makers, backpackers, inbound tourists, the hospitality industry, etc etc to have a growing and successful, well connected local airport - isn't that what EGNX seems to be right now, and seems to keep on being??
WHY CHANGE?? Can we honestly, between us here on this forum, come up with 3 VALID reasons to change from the current Nottingham East Midlands Airport??
There are a few quotes on the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham that strike me as odd, for example:
""Michael Copestake, of Marketing Derby, said: "It hasn't helped the East Midlands to develop itself as a region and that has been a problem.
"If we are going to promote the East Midlands as an area to do business in, if we've got the main airport that doesn't carry that logo it doesn't achieve that objective." ""
The last time I looked at the terminal front, the airport's website, it marketing material, the words east and midlands were written all over it.
The most important thing is clarity. And it is a fact that at the moment some websites list the airport as :
FR - East Midlands (EMA) in its booking drop down list, but regularly refer to it as Nottingham (East Midlands) in its marketing, including the big poster in the check-in hall.
EZY - Nottingham East Midlands (EMA) on its drop down, East Midlands on its route map (with the dot hovering somewhere over Stratford on Avon!)
WW - Nottingham East Midlands (EMA) on its dropdowns, Nottingham EMA on its route map.
TOM - Nottingham East Midlands on the dropdown, Nottingham on the route map.
T3 - Nottingham (EMA) on the dropdowns, Nottingham on the route map.
As regards the arrivals/departures displays at other airports:-
ALC is showing both WW and EZY flight s to/from NOTTINGHAM/EAST MIDLANDS
EDI is showing WW flights as to/from NOTTINGHAM
DUB is showing FR flights to/from EAST MIDLANDS
GRO is showing FR flights to/from NOTTINGHAM/EASTMIDLANDS
BRU is showing BD flights as to/from Nottingham
It could be a good idea if the airport sticks with one name but actively encouraged a standard across all websites and airports to display the name.
It should either be listed under E, or N, in the dropdowns, and the same name used on route maps (preferably with the 'dot' roughly in the middle of Derby/Nottingham/Leicester - easyJet take note!)
I have not found any other region with the same amount of parochial rivalry as exists between Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. So no doubt we will have to endure the next 2 months of pointless headlines in the Evening Telegraph, the Post and the Mercury, all scrapping over words and a vain loyalaty to a city - what's the point in that??? Surely it benefits all, businesses, holiday makers, backpackers, inbound tourists, the hospitality industry, etc etc to have a growing and successful, well connected local airport - isn't that what EGNX seems to be right now, and seems to keep on being??
WHY CHANGE?? Can we honestly, between us here on this forum, come up with 3 VALID reasons to change from the current Nottingham East Midlands Airport??
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One thing they SHOULD get rid of, right now, is that woman (as shapely as she is) flapping her arms about on the front of the terminal
It's an airport for crying out loud, not a branch of C&A.
It's an airport for crying out loud, not a branch of C&A.
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3 Valid reasons!!!!!!!!
1) Its not in Nottingham / Nottinghamshire
2) Its Postal Address is Castle Donington, Derby
3) Its in Leicestershire
In all seriousness now tho why not call it what it is. East Midlands International Airport
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1) Its not in Nottingham / Nottinghamshire
2) Its Postal Address is Castle Donington, Derby
3) Its in Leicestershire
In all seriousness now tho why not call it what it is. East Midlands International Airport
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Those are 3 facts, but are they valid reasons?
Castle Donington is in Leicestershire but listed in the Derby telephone directory - I don't hear the neighbours squawking on about the fact.
London Gatwick is not in London, it is in West Sussex, but its postcode RH6 is the postal district of Horley, in the county of Surrey, but is has a Crawley telephone number.
Manchester Airport had a number of previous more local names, it is mostly in Cheshire if you get really picky, the towns of Altrincham, Wilmslow and Stockport are actually closer than Manchester.
So, you stated facts - but none of them are valid reasons to change from "Nottingham East Midlands Airport" to "East Midlands Airport".
Those are 3 facts, but are they valid reasons?
Castle Donington is in Leicestershire but listed in the Derby telephone directory - I don't hear the neighbours squawking on about the fact.
London Gatwick is not in London, it is in West Sussex, but its postcode RH6 is the postal district of Horley, in the county of Surrey, but is has a Crawley telephone number.
Manchester Airport had a number of previous more local names, it is mostly in Cheshire if you get really picky, the towns of Altrincham, Wilmslow and Stockport are actually closer than Manchester.
So, you stated facts - but none of them are valid reasons to change from "Nottingham East Midlands Airport" to "East Midlands Airport".
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egnxema,
Can you give all of us a valid reason as to why EMA should have Nottingham in the Title.
BTW my facts were tongue in cheek btw. i wasnt tryin to be too serious.
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Can you give all of us a valid reason as to why EMA should have Nottingham in the Title.
BTW my facts were tongue in cheek btw. i wasnt tryin to be too serious.
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This name thing is highly sensitive and to be honest - there will never be a universally acceptible answer.
but
Where is TriCities Airport? (TRI) any idea?
And for a while one airport actively styled itself EuroAirport (EAP). Where is that - in the mind of a non-aviation linked person?
EuroAirport is sold by easyJet as Basel-Mulhouse - instantly it becomes a lot clearer exactly where it is. Despite the fact that the airport is situated entirely on French soil, Basel is probably a better know town that Mulhouse. Interestingly, Freiburg, in Germany, also appears in the airport's name.
So despite being from Castle Donington, in Leicestershire, with my Derby postcode and telephone number - I 100% believe that airports should be "associated" with a major city - every single on of them.
In our local case, I feel that of the 3 contenders D, N & L, that Nottingham is good.
Could it be that some in the local area would benefit from lifting their heads up to look at the picture on a more European, or international scale, not on the scale of 3 counties of England.
Another reason is that while looking on Departures boards in airports abroad - I can honestly say, on 3 occassions I have overheard other British passengers read aloud "East Midlands...........where's that?"
For much of its history the airport has been a departure point for those in the region going away on holiday. But things have already changed, we all are pleased that EMA now has over 100 destinations year round. But many of the "destinations" are also points of origin for inbound visitors.
I still believe, but am willing to be corrected, that if a german businessman near Cologne needing to visit a firm in Melton Mowbray looking at the easyJet and germanwings websites, with the help of his regular everyday office atlas, will find a places called "Nottingham" and "Birmingham" faster than he will see labels for "East Midlands" or "West Midlands".
He then sees "Nottingham East Midlands" on the easyJet dropdown - the probability of him being an addtional EMA pax rather than BHX pax in greatly increased.
Another thing.....
When the airport last did the name change game, it was a BHX/EMA region. Well, things have changed. It is now a BHX/CVT/DSA/EMA region - the stakes are A LOT higher. DSA has already got TOM longhaul flights to CUN and SFB, and now GSM have announced weekly longhaul flight from DSA to YYZ! Shaheen Airlines have announced flights from DSA to Islamabad and YYZ.
So - EMA - please don't expend valuable time and research funding on yet another name change -stick with Nottingham East Midlands (not perfect, granted, but not bad by any means), and build on your already good success, go out and impress the airlines to bring the likes of YYZ, YVR, DXB, India, Pakistan, etc to the EMA route map.
When you are looking at that sort of picture - Nottingham will look a lot better next to a dot on a world route map than EMIA.
but
Where is TriCities Airport? (TRI) any idea?
And for a while one airport actively styled itself EuroAirport (EAP). Where is that - in the mind of a non-aviation linked person?
EuroAirport is sold by easyJet as Basel-Mulhouse - instantly it becomes a lot clearer exactly where it is. Despite the fact that the airport is situated entirely on French soil, Basel is probably a better know town that Mulhouse. Interestingly, Freiburg, in Germany, also appears in the airport's name.
So despite being from Castle Donington, in Leicestershire, with my Derby postcode and telephone number - I 100% believe that airports should be "associated" with a major city - every single on of them.
In our local case, I feel that of the 3 contenders D, N & L, that Nottingham is good.
Could it be that some in the local area would benefit from lifting their heads up to look at the picture on a more European, or international scale, not on the scale of 3 counties of England.
Another reason is that while looking on Departures boards in airports abroad - I can honestly say, on 3 occassions I have overheard other British passengers read aloud "East Midlands...........where's that?"
For much of its history the airport has been a departure point for those in the region going away on holiday. But things have already changed, we all are pleased that EMA now has over 100 destinations year round. But many of the "destinations" are also points of origin for inbound visitors.
I still believe, but am willing to be corrected, that if a german businessman near Cologne needing to visit a firm in Melton Mowbray looking at the easyJet and germanwings websites, with the help of his regular everyday office atlas, will find a places called "Nottingham" and "Birmingham" faster than he will see labels for "East Midlands" or "West Midlands".
He then sees "Nottingham East Midlands" on the easyJet dropdown - the probability of him being an addtional EMA pax rather than BHX pax in greatly increased.
Another thing.....
When the airport last did the name change game, it was a BHX/EMA region. Well, things have changed. It is now a BHX/CVT/DSA/EMA region - the stakes are A LOT higher. DSA has already got TOM longhaul flights to CUN and SFB, and now GSM have announced weekly longhaul flight from DSA to YYZ! Shaheen Airlines have announced flights from DSA to Islamabad and YYZ.
So - EMA - please don't expend valuable time and research funding on yet another name change -stick with Nottingham East Midlands (not perfect, granted, but not bad by any means), and build on your already good success, go out and impress the airlines to bring the likes of YYZ, YVR, DXB, India, Pakistan, etc to the EMA route map.
When you are looking at that sort of picture - Nottingham will look a lot better next to a dot on a world route map than EMIA.