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There are always a number of Plod, brandishing semi-automatic weapons, mooching round the nice warm departures area. Perhaps they would be better deployed outside, patrolling the runway perimeter.
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Speaking to BBC London, group member Joshua Virasami added: "The community where this airport is is a predominantly black community.
as access to aircraft at a critical time is wide open to the rowing club.
Not sarcasm, there's one right across the dock.
Not sarcasm, there's one right across the dock.
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In all the years flying in and out of LCY it always made me chuckle that the Mets finest never got out of the terminal building , but just posed ,trying to look tough at the escalator bottom or up on the old balcony area looking down on the masses ! Also why do the police given the guns always look gormless at LCY ? It's always the copper with the glasses or the overweight ones or the tiny little female with the gun, but hey they have the machine pistol so they must be the best of the best lol !!!!!!
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Serious point, but I think The Met (the London police for those overseas) is going to come pretty badly out of this. Maybe not before time some of their procedures at LCY will come under review. The feeble reaction today, where most would have expected action within minutes, is an example where the senior officers have lost touch with reality. I feel I can say this because at our own house, well within earshot of LCY as regulars on this forum may know, a "classic" burglar at 2 am trying to come in through our upstairs bedroom windows was, following a 999 call, dealt with and apprehended in minutes by a couple of regular firm action Met coppers in absolutely exemplary manner. Thank goodness. Well Done Lads.
Meanwhile over at LCY someone felt that having the Armed Officers waltzing about the terminal with their fingers pawing on the triggers of their Koch machine guns was adequate defence. I presume they were sent out to the runway within moments of this incursion being announced. Did they even show their machine guns then ? Probably not.
A few years ago, writing about the "community day" and airshow organised at LCY one weekend, I finished up, on this very thread, with a comment on how the police handled themselves on this "meet the local public" day. You can read the penultimate paragraph here :
http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...ml#post4225508
Meanwhile over at LCY someone felt that having the Armed Officers waltzing about the terminal with their fingers pawing on the triggers of their Koch machine guns was adequate defence. I presume they were sent out to the runway within moments of this incursion being announced. Did they even show their machine guns then ? Probably not.
A few years ago, writing about the "community day" and airshow organised at LCY one weekend, I finished up, on this very thread, with a comment on how the police handled themselves on this "meet the local public" day. You can read the penultimate paragraph here :
http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...ml#post4225508
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3 times a day (daily on weekends) bookable from 30th October
http://www.flybe.com/corporate/media/news/1609/13.htm
http://www.flybe.com/corporate/media/news/1609/13.htm
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Smart move....
... not.
The DUS route will go up from 150 seats daily to 450 daily because BACF has just upgraded from the Saab to an Embraer.
Wonder why BE has not been a bit more creative and given CGN a try - which has two airlines serving STN, but none LGW, LTN or LCY.
... not.
The DUS route will go up from 150 seats daily to 450 daily because BACF has just upgraded from the Saab to an Embraer.
Wonder why BE has not been a bit more creative and given CGN a try - which has two airlines serving STN, but none LGW, LTN or LCY.
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Probably due to the fact that BE already serve DUS from BHX, MAN, CWL, SOU and DSA and have no operations into CGN. Coupled with the recent codeshare with Air Berlin, the biggest operator at DUS (I think?) it sounds like a sensible move on their part to me.
Coupled with the recent codeshare with Air Berlin, the biggest operator at DUS (I think?) it sounds like a sensible move on their part to me.
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I've noticed that there is a Flybe (Blue Islands) ATR42 parked by the Jet Centre for the past couple of days. What's gone wrong with it? Have Blue Islands cancelled their flights or brought in another aircraft?
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As a change from my constant Edinburghs or Dublins, we came to Palma on BA, Mrs WHBM 
and Little Miss WHBM joining the trip. Even an outward in mid-September was pretty much all seats taken.
Would never expect it at LCY but they were actually giving out little kids packs as you exited security. I have to tell whoever sourced these that the 8-part pencil has been a great hit in the Majorca hotel room ! But a curious theme in the colouring book "The Merfolk of Atlantis", all about cartoon characters and creatures from the depths of the ocean. Was there nothing with an aviation theme available ?
and Little Miss WHBM joining the trip. Even an outward in mid-September was pretty much all seats taken.Would never expect it at LCY but they were actually giving out little kids packs as you exited security. I have to tell whoever sourced these that the 8-part pencil has been a great hit in the Majorca hotel room ! But a curious theme in the colouring book "The Merfolk of Atlantis", all about cartoon characters and creatures from the depths of the ocean. Was there nothing with an aviation theme available ?
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And we're back ...
Loading the family and baggage into a black cab at the airport for what is a just under £10 journey to our nearby home brought the usual string of near-expletives from the cabbie. "*&^%$£ mate, WHERE ? I've been queued here for over 2 flippin' hours". etc etc. Now I know that everyone on the rank thinks they are going to get at least a Heathrow, if not a Cambridge, every trip, but this has been a longstanding issue at the LCY rank for local trips which the airport must surely give some consideration to. A "black cabs are TfL, so nuffin' to do with us" approach is little different from that cabbie's. For some this sort of reception can be more than a little threatening.
As I understand it, at Friday midday there are a fair number of cab jobs for returning Europeans from The City etc into LCY for departing pax, but not so much inbound trade (although the rank seemed to be moving along, we had to step to the 4th cab in line while those ahead also loaded). Can LCY do something to limit the length of the cab queue so the drivers stand a chance of getting a trip within say 15 minutes, or have to go back out to Canary Wharf etc.
Loading the family and baggage into a black cab at the airport for what is a just under £10 journey to our nearby home brought the usual string of near-expletives from the cabbie. "*&^%$£ mate, WHERE ? I've been queued here for over 2 flippin' hours". etc etc. Now I know that everyone on the rank thinks they are going to get at least a Heathrow, if not a Cambridge, every trip, but this has been a longstanding issue at the LCY rank for local trips which the airport must surely give some consideration to. A "black cabs are TfL, so nuffin' to do with us" approach is little different from that cabbie's. For some this sort of reception can be more than a little threatening.
As I understand it, at Friday midday there are a fair number of cab jobs for returning Europeans from The City etc into LCY for departing pax, but not so much inbound trade (although the rank seemed to be moving along, we had to step to the 4th cab in line while those ahead also loaded). Can LCY do something to limit the length of the cab queue so the drivers stand a chance of getting a trip within say 15 minutes, or have to go back out to Canary Wharf etc.
Swiss seem to be moving their (very) seasonal route to Sion in Switzerland from City to Heathrow, presumably because of the weekend curfew at City
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And we're back ...
Loading the family and baggage into a black cab at the airport for what is a just under £10 journey to our nearby home brought the usual string of near-expletives from the cabbie. "*&^%$£ mate, WHERE ? I've been queued here for over 2 flippin' hours". etc etc. Now I know that everyone on the rank thinks they are going to get at least a Heathrow, if not a Cambridge, every trip, but this has been a longstanding issue at the LCY rank for local trips which the airport must surely give some consideration to. A "black cabs are TfL, so nuffin' to do with us" approach is little different from that cabbie's. For some this sort of reception can be more than a little threatening.
Loading the family and baggage into a black cab at the airport for what is a just under £10 journey to our nearby home brought the usual string of near-expletives from the cabbie. "*&^%$£ mate, WHERE ? I've been queued here for over 2 flippin' hours". etc etc. Now I know that everyone on the rank thinks they are going to get at least a Heathrow, if not a Cambridge, every trip, but this has been a longstanding issue at the LCY rank for local trips which the airport must surely give some consideration to. A "black cabs are TfL, so nuffin' to do with us" approach is little different from that cabbie's. For some this sort of reception can be more than a little threatening.
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I don't know about tech stop but business demand to Russia in recent years has been high.
BA changed the Moscow route to a long haul route and introduced first class. Aeroflot also use A330's on the LHR route and have announced an A320 service to Gatwick.
BA changed the Moscow route to a long haul route and introduced first class. Aeroflot also use A330's on the LHR route and have announced an A320 service to Gatwick.