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Ryanair Weeze
Ryanair are to stop the Dusseldorf-Weeze service from next March due to the introduction of the German travel tax along with many other routes to and from Germany. Wonder what will happen if most EU countries introduce a ''travel tax'' or whatever you want to call it - then what will they do?
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NRN had poor loads and odd departure times. I think it left NRN Mondays at 10:30 or so, so a coach from Duesseldorf and check-in time meant you'd have to leave central Duesseldorf at 6:30 or so to catch it. Not great, esp if you have DUS at your doorstep. Must have been more for the Dutch market. The german travel tax is just a cheap excuse. OltonPete's analysis when both HHN and NRN were still there showed NRN just above the chop-value of 70% load factor which FR applies, and HHN just below. Now FR introduce EMA-TLL, lifetime of this is 6 months maximum...
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LH Frankfurt
One of the benefits of LH on FRA/BHX/MAN was the felxibility to sub aircraft types according to demand, no such option exists with a based A320. What happens to the inbound early morning flight at both airports.
Saves on night stops I suppose.
Another relegation to the second division one thinks.
Lets hope BMI make a better fist of it that they did with the 146 to Munich a few years ago.
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Saves on night stops I suppose.
Another relegation to the second division one thinks.
Lets hope BMI make a better fist of it that they did with the 146 to Munich a few years ago.
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flyintobhx.com has a picture with:
''Birmingham welcomes world leader December 18th''
Does anyone know if it is anything exciting or just something about Birmingham in general
''Birmingham welcomes world leader December 18th''
Does anyone know if it is anything exciting or just something about Birmingham in general
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Ryanair Arrecife
One slight increase - extra Wednesday flight in at 10.30 and out
at 10.55 so a nice and early start from ACE as it is operated from
their new base.
Little crumbs.
Pete
at 10.55 so a nice and early start from ACE as it is operated from
their new base.
Little crumbs.
Pete
Looks like 'The World Leader' diverted to NCL. Better luck for the evening service.
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<"Looks like 'The World Leader' diverted to NCL. Better luck for the evening service".>
Both flts made it to BHX and were on the deck the same time
.. and we had an Air Asia A340 divert in this evening as well.
Both flts made it to BHX and were on the deck the same time
.. and we had an Air Asia A340 divert in this evening as well.
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No the EK39 ended up in Newcastle where it has night stopped with its passengers and crew. Due to leave for BHX at 0800 Sunday. Must be another EK aircraft that has diverted to BHX today.
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Shame to see BHX featuring in the national BBC news for the wrong reason. Pax on an a/c on the tarmac for 9 hours, paramedics called. Airline not specified but a high prominence of flybe aircraft on news footage suggests it could be them!
It is a shame because it takes away from the hard work the boys and girls at BHX undoubtedly do to keep the place running!
It is a shame because it takes away from the hard work the boys and girls at BHX undoubtedly do to keep the place running!
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Delays
The article I listened to stated that the flight was to Islamabad and thus PIA. It was Saturday's flight which diverted to Frankfurt, which was a shame really as if it had an hours holding fuel, BHX would have opened in time for it to land but I suppose the crew could not risk it as it had already gone back an hour.
I watched it on flightradar24 do a 180 over the Belgium coast at about 17.00.
At least PIA brought the aircraft back over to BHX and it departed at 16.36.
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I watched it on flightradar24 do a 180 over the Belgium coast at about 17.00.
At least PIA brought the aircraft back over to BHX and it departed at 16.36.
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Heard through the grapevine (well, ok, Facebook) that police are attending some kind of passenger situation on the heavily delayed FR flight BHX-TFS. Apparently the SLF have decided that staging a sit-in will make departure possible... 
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I just happened to be in my local Chinese Take-Away as BBC were talking to one of the BHX-TFS passengers via a mobile phone.
Now how true this is or not but apparently a cabin crew member had informed the passengers that they could have departed however the crew would have been out of hours to make the return trip TFS-BHX.
IF this is true then sounds like an O'Leary company policy that FR will not provide crew accommodation under any circumstances, failing that there is no policy in place that crew carry night stop gear with them and, perhaps, the crew had no pyjamas etc. with them!
In such conditions I would have thought move what passengers one can, take things one step at a time rather than two steps at a time!
If this is true I can imagine why the passengers are p1ssed off.
Now how true this is or not but apparently a cabin crew member had informed the passengers that they could have departed however the crew would have been out of hours to make the return trip TFS-BHX.
IF this is true then sounds like an O'Leary company policy that FR will not provide crew accommodation under any circumstances, failing that there is no policy in place that crew carry night stop gear with them and, perhaps, the crew had no pyjamas etc. with them!
In such conditions I would have thought move what passengers one can, take things one step at a time rather than two steps at a time!
If this is true I can imagine why the passengers are p1ssed off.