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Yes but why? Luton has been handling widebodies for around 35 year with no problems.
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Heard it had something to do with CAA dispensation, which the airport forgot to renew. Now it has lapsed it has gone for good. The insurance premiums has more to do with the handling agents who are going to take over responsibility for marshalling
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Why is that then? Why is the issue with only the main apron? They used to park Tristar’s on stand 5ish and the terminal stands would park Monarch 757’s, now all the terminal stands seem to be limited to 737 size of aircraft as they can squeeze more aircraft in so it can’t have anything to do with wingtip clearance as a wide body taxis surely?
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Ah yes ... the new Operations Manager ... ruffling a few feathers already.
...so it can’t have anything to do with wingtip clearance as a wide body taxis surely?
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FlyBE has disappeared off the booking engine for JER next summer - too much competition from TOMfly? Would have liked to have seen them expand at LTN to NCL/MAN/BHD/JER/GCI/IOM etc
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Flybe Jersey-Luton-Jersey
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The Jersey-Luton-Jersey summer service is still showing on Flybe timetable for 2007.
The service is Saturdays only from the 5th May 2007 to the 29th Sept 2007does this help or do you know a bit more and that they will not operate this service all be it one day a week against the Tommy flights of every day next year??
The Jersey-Luton-Jersey summer service is still showing on Flybe timetable for 2007.
The service is Saturdays only from the 5th May 2007 to the 29th Sept 2007does this help or do you know a bit more and that they will not operate this service all be it one day a week against the Tommy flights of every day next year??
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It took over a quarter of an hour to get a ThomsonFly B767 out from stand 15
Whilst this may or may not be the way to run a major London airport (it's up to others to judge, but certainly, AENA's management is not exactly an amateur or inexperienced in this regard) the fact is that if flight crew and based ground crew don't know precisely what they're supposed to do (inadequate or poor briefing or documentation?), then it's inevitable that the procedure is going to take longer than expected. Similarly, if tow bars or shear pins break, this again is going to delay things and cause 'traffic jams'.
What's painfully clear is that any regular number of wide-body movements to/from the Main Apron at LTN (say, one or more movements per hour) in either direction is going to severly affect the airport's handling capacity especially at peak times, and this will inevitably have a significant impact on runway utilisation simply because aircraft that are 'boxed in' won't be able to get out there quickly enough.
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Attn toledoashley.
The Jersey-Luton-Jersey summer service is still showing on Flybe timetable for 2007.
The service is Saturdays only from the 5th May 2007 to the 29th Sept 2007does this help or do you know a bit more and that they will not operate this service all be it one day a week against the Tommy flights of every day next year??
The Jersey-Luton-Jersey summer service is still showing on Flybe timetable for 2007.
The service is Saturdays only from the 5th May 2007 to the 29th Sept 2007does this help or do you know a bit more and that they will not operate this service all be it one day a week against the Tommy flights of every day next year??
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It's not correct to say that Ryanair "cancelled" flights on these days, but it's true that Tuesday December 26th for example was not a typical Tuesday regarding Ryanair operations.
So Malta airport arrival and departure screens were showing their "Tuesday screens". It was incorrect to show "Cancelled" next to the Ryanair flights but I suppose their software or screen space did not allow the comment "Exceptionally not scheduled to operate this Tuesday".
The Malta Star article seems to be based on the screens at the airport. I'd like them to actually find a passenger who booked a flight from Luton to Malta or vice versa for December 26th.