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Needless to say the NIMBYS and tree-huggers threw in their two pen'orth
I know this from personal experience. My brother is one of the above, you know, bird watcher, recycles everything, keeps the heating off in his house to save energy etc etc! I'm a petrol head and a pilot who doesn't recycle anything and has big bonfires in his garden - you can imagine the arguments.
BALPA produced a great booklet on the enviroment and aviation, including some great independant pieces of infomation, facts and figures on the negliagable effects of aviation on the enviroment.
Jet2's aircraft are too loud ey? Give us a longer runway and we can de-rate the take off power more. Someone ought to go into LBA and do a few circuits in a BAC 1-11, 707 or even an old 737-200 to show what a 'loud' aeroplane actually sounds like!!
Sorry - rant over!
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Another piece of the jigsaw slots into place and Bristol's loss is Leeds' gain here I think...
Bristol International Airport aviation development director Tony Hallwood is to leave his post at the end of the month.
Mr Hallwood, pictured, who joined the airport five years ago, is leaving to join Leeds Bradford Airport as commercial director.
He said: "I've thoroughly enjoyed my time at Bristol but my home is in Manchester and I have a young family to consider.
"I've been staying in Bristol during the week and only seeing them at weekends.
"I will leave the airport at the end of March after five great years and will leave behind a very capable team."
Paul Kehoe, chief executive of Bristol International Airport, said: "I am delighted for Tony but we are sad to see him go. He has been a great ambassador for Bristol International and the South West, and his efforts in securing new routes have benefited business and leisure passengers across the region. Tony leaves the airport in great shape, with 120 destinations now served by direct flights."
A successor for Mr Hallwood, 51, has yet to be announced.
Bristol International Airport aviation development director Tony Hallwood is to leave his post at the end of the month.
Mr Hallwood, pictured, who joined the airport five years ago, is leaving to join Leeds Bradford Airport as commercial director.
He said: "I've thoroughly enjoyed my time at Bristol but my home is in Manchester and I have a young family to consider.
"I've been staying in Bristol during the week and only seeing them at weekends.
"I will leave the airport at the end of March after five great years and will leave behind a very capable team."
Paul Kehoe, chief executive of Bristol International Airport, said: "I am delighted for Tony but we are sad to see him go. He has been a great ambassador for Bristol International and the South West, and his efforts in securing new routes have benefited business and leisure passengers across the region. Tony leaves the airport in great shape, with 120 destinations now served by direct flights."
A successor for Mr Hallwood, 51, has yet to be announced.
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£7m investment plan for Leeds Bradford Airport
Found this on Leeds Bradford Airport News
£70m investment plan for Leeds Bradford Airport
13.03.08
Bridgepoint, the private equity group that paid West Yorkshire’s five councils £146m for Leeds Bradford Airport last year, plans to spend £70m to stimulate more use of the hub, the Financial Times reports.
Sir Graham Hall, a well-known Yorkshire business leader who is chairman of the company created to run the airport, says more than half of the flights taken each year by Yorkshire’s 6m people start from outside the region. He sees plenty of opportunity to get more of them to stop travelling to use airports such as Manchester - which serves a much broader range of destinations.
£70m investment plan for Leeds Bradford Airport
13.03.08
Bridgepoint, the private equity group that paid West Yorkshire’s five councils £146m for Leeds Bradford Airport last year, plans to spend £70m to stimulate more use of the hub, the Financial Times reports.
Sir Graham Hall, a well-known Yorkshire business leader who is chairman of the company created to run the airport, says more than half of the flights taken each year by Yorkshire’s 6m people start from outside the region. He sees plenty of opportunity to get more of them to stop travelling to use airports such as Manchester - which serves a much broader range of destinations.
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I used LBA last winter and found the place far from a dump, it was much better than many an airport I have been in lately and will look forward to using it again. I can imagine it will be fairly crowded in summer but then that is the reason to invest in the place as people obviously use it.
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Had a look at the summer charter programme out of LBA and it looks like a pretty good summer with a quite large range of holidays sun spots available.
Around 43 weekly departures, if am I not mistaken :
ALC x1
INN x1
BOJ x1
VAR x1
CFU x1
HER x2
LCA x1
PFO x1
FAO x2
FUE x3
LPA x1
IBZ x2
ACE x1
MAH x1
AGP x1
MLA x1
PMI x6
REU x2
RHO x1
OLB x1
TFS x1
AYT x1
BJV x2
DLM x4
VRN x1
ZTH x1
JER x1
...plus many LS holiday flights (a mix of both sched and charter) to the spanish Costa, Algarve and the Canaries...where customer can either book the classic whole package or just the flight itself..
In the near future I would try to introduce a bunch of new destinations increasing in popularity such as Egypt (Sharm el Sheikh or Taba), Croatia (Dalmatia/Dubrovnik-Split or Istria/Pula) and Tunisia (Monastir)...I believe they could definitively work out of LBA.. even during the winter season.
It would also be nice if they do reinstate a weekly Funchal/Madeira service, maybe operated by Jet2 with the load split with some larger operators like Thomson/Thomas Cook or a specialist like Atlantic hols.
Around 43 weekly departures, if am I not mistaken :
ALC x1
INN x1
BOJ x1
VAR x1
CFU x1
HER x2
LCA x1
PFO x1
FAO x2
FUE x3
LPA x1
IBZ x2
ACE x1
MAH x1
AGP x1
MLA x1
PMI x6
REU x2
RHO x1
OLB x1
TFS x1
AYT x1
BJV x2
DLM x4
VRN x1
ZTH x1
JER x1
...plus many LS holiday flights (a mix of both sched and charter) to the spanish Costa, Algarve and the Canaries...where customer can either book the classic whole package or just the flight itself..
In the near future I would try to introduce a bunch of new destinations increasing in popularity such as Egypt (Sharm el Sheikh or Taba), Croatia (Dalmatia/Dubrovnik-Split or Istria/Pula) and Tunisia (Monastir)...I believe they could definitively work out of LBA.. even during the winter season.
It would also be nice if they do reinstate a weekly Funchal/Madeira service, maybe operated by Jet2 with the load split with some larger operators like Thomson/Thomas Cook or a specialist like Atlantic hols.
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Had a look at the summer charter programme out of LBA and it looks like a pretty good summer with a quite large range of holidays sun spots available.
Around 43 weekly departures, if am I not mistaken :
ALC x1
INN x1
BOJ x1
VAR x1
CFU x1
HER x2
LCA x1
PFO x1
FAO x2
FUE x3
LPA x1
IBZ x2
ACE x1
MAH x1
AGP x1
MLA x1
PMI x6
REU x2
RHO x1
OLB x1
TFS x1
AYT x1
BJV x2
DLM x4
VRN x1
ZTH x1
JER x1
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Yes it's good , But generally the same old destinations year on year.
Spain, Spain, & more spain.
Nothing we haven't seen before.
Anyone for SSH???
Had a look at the summer charter programme out of LBA and it looks like a pretty good summer with a quite large range of holidays sun spots available.
Around 43 weekly departures, if am I not mistaken :
ALC x1
INN x1
BOJ x1
VAR x1
CFU x1
HER x2
LCA x1
PFO x1
FAO x2
FUE x3
LPA x1
IBZ x2
ACE x1
MAH x1
AGP x1
MLA x1
PMI x6
REU x2
RHO x1
OLB x1
TFS x1
AYT x1
BJV x2
DLM x4
VRN x1
ZTH x1
JER x1
REPLY BYALPHAINDIA
Yes it's good , But generally the same old destinations year on year.
Spain, Spain, & more spain.
Nothing we haven't seen before.
Anyone for SSH???
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I agree with keyvon,don't think it will be too long before we see some new destinations available from LBA.
I can't understand why people still flock to the costas and the canaries,apart from obviously the weather!.With the euro so strong its just not cheap anymore,prices on a par with the UK.
Last year I went to Gdansk(flew from DSA on Wizzair,sorry!!!!),and visited the 'Polish Riviera',really beautiful and dirt cheap!.Maybe us yorkshire folk,aren't very adventurous when it comes to choosing holidays?
By the way,I'm off to Palma in a couple of weeks,but only because I won a free flight,thanks Jet2!!!.
I can't understand why people still flock to the costas and the canaries,apart from obviously the weather!.With the euro so strong its just not cheap anymore,prices on a par with the UK.
Last year I went to Gdansk(flew from DSA on Wizzair,sorry!!!!),and visited the 'Polish Riviera',really beautiful and dirt cheap!.Maybe us yorkshire folk,aren't very adventurous when it comes to choosing holidays?
By the way,I'm off to Palma in a couple of weeks,but only because I won a free flight,thanks Jet2!!!.
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More Long Haul routs take step forword from Leeds Bradford Airport take step forword
From Bristal Evening news
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT NEW YORK CLOSER TO BRISTOL
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10:40 - 25 March 2008
Bristol Airport aviation director Tony Hallwood is leaving for rival Leeds Bradford. JAMES COWLING speaks to the man credited with opening the West to the US
Many people credit flights directly from Bristol to New York to one man.Tony Hallwood, aviation development supremo at Bristol names the moment Continental Airlines came to Bristol as his proudest.
Since he arrived in Bristol, in July 2003, he's convinced a host of key operators to fly from Bristol.
Now he's embarking on a role nearer his Manchester home, taking up the post of developing Leeds Bradford airport's fortunes.
He said: "When I came to Bristol, I'd worked for the MyTravel group and I knew the South West economy was very strong and had a lot of potential.
"Bristol had 24 scheduled destinations - now it has got 77.
"Much of my role involved being an ambassador not just for Bristol airport but for the West."
But how did Tony persuade airlines to come to a relatively unknown airport?
"I never believed it was a gamble - I had the facts at my fingertips.
"Six per cent of all passengers travelling to London airports were coming from the South West - which equated to four million passenger journeys.
"On that basis, I told my former boss (Andrew Skipp) that I wanted a New York route within two years."
Following intensive discussions with a number of carriers, Continental Airlines agreed to fly from Bristol.
"I got the call from them to say they were coming to Bristol exactly a year after I started my job."
It's not just the New York flights that Tony remembers with fondness.
In 2003, easyJet had 13 destinations from Bristol - now it has 39 and is the second largest hub for easyJet outside Gatwick.
In the autumn, the airport is expected to apply for its £80 million expansion to include a hotel, car parks and an increase in passengers from six million this year, to nine million in 2015.
Tony said: "The airport needs to expand to keep up with some serious international competition.
"Carriers like easyJet are using much more fuel efficient planes with higher load factors (numbers of passengers) which keeps up with consumer demand."
In January 2007, the airport made national news headlines after it closed its runway for four days.
Pilots working for easyJet reported skidding planes on landing, as the airport's runway surface underwent a £15m refurbishment.
Tony said: "It was a weekend that will remain in my mind in terms of experiences and one of the top three challenges of my career.
"It was certainly the right thing to do to close the runway, and put our customers' safety first."
Tony, whose young family live in Manchester will start at Leeds Bradford next month.
He follows Bristol's head of engineering Carl Atworth, who joined Leeds a month ago, but it is pure coincidence, insists Tony.
He said: "Leeds has got three million passengers - around half the size of Bristol, so there's plenty to get my teeth into."
But what has he left behind?
"I've got a great group of people who will develop Bristol even more - hopefully I've laid the foundations for more routes.
"I would hope to see flights to Dubai from Bristol in the next decade."
But what was his proudest moment at Bristol?
"I have to say, when we flew into Bristol from New York on the first Continental flight, there was a tear in my eye."
so hopfully Leeds Bradford will soon be having direct New york flights
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT NEW YORK CLOSER TO BRISTOL
1 reader has commented on this story. Click here to read their views.
10:40 - 25 March 2008
Bristol Airport aviation director Tony Hallwood is leaving for rival Leeds Bradford. JAMES COWLING speaks to the man credited with opening the West to the US
Many people credit flights directly from Bristol to New York to one man.Tony Hallwood, aviation development supremo at Bristol names the moment Continental Airlines came to Bristol as his proudest.
Since he arrived in Bristol, in July 2003, he's convinced a host of key operators to fly from Bristol.
Now he's embarking on a role nearer his Manchester home, taking up the post of developing Leeds Bradford airport's fortunes.
He said: "When I came to Bristol, I'd worked for the MyTravel group and I knew the South West economy was very strong and had a lot of potential.
"Bristol had 24 scheduled destinations - now it has got 77.
"Much of my role involved being an ambassador not just for Bristol airport but for the West."
But how did Tony persuade airlines to come to a relatively unknown airport?
"I never believed it was a gamble - I had the facts at my fingertips.
"Six per cent of all passengers travelling to London airports were coming from the South West - which equated to four million passenger journeys.
"On that basis, I told my former boss (Andrew Skipp) that I wanted a New York route within two years."
Following intensive discussions with a number of carriers, Continental Airlines agreed to fly from Bristol.
"I got the call from them to say they were coming to Bristol exactly a year after I started my job."
It's not just the New York flights that Tony remembers with fondness.
In 2003, easyJet had 13 destinations from Bristol - now it has 39 and is the second largest hub for easyJet outside Gatwick.
In the autumn, the airport is expected to apply for its £80 million expansion to include a hotel, car parks and an increase in passengers from six million this year, to nine million in 2015.
Tony said: "The airport needs to expand to keep up with some serious international competition.
"Carriers like easyJet are using much more fuel efficient planes with higher load factors (numbers of passengers) which keeps up with consumer demand."
In January 2007, the airport made national news headlines after it closed its runway for four days.
Pilots working for easyJet reported skidding planes on landing, as the airport's runway surface underwent a £15m refurbishment.
Tony said: "It was a weekend that will remain in my mind in terms of experiences and one of the top three challenges of my career.
"It was certainly the right thing to do to close the runway, and put our customers' safety first."
Tony, whose young family live in Manchester will start at Leeds Bradford next month.
He follows Bristol's head of engineering Carl Atworth, who joined Leeds a month ago, but it is pure coincidence, insists Tony.
He said: "Leeds has got three million passengers - around half the size of Bristol, so there's plenty to get my teeth into."
But what has he left behind?
"I've got a great group of people who will develop Bristol even more - hopefully I've laid the foundations for more routes.
"I would hope to see flights to Dubai from Bristol in the next decade."
But what was his proudest moment at Bristol?
"I have to say, when we flew into Bristol from New York on the first Continental flight, there was a tear in my eye."
so hopfully Leeds Bradford will soon be having direct New york flights
interesting times ahead.
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Nnd there was me thinking New York was a possibility even before he arrived with rumors of Jet2 looking at it! The Shaheen seems to be doing ok now, 3 times weekly. I would have thought New York and even a Dubai should be the next targets.
If the LHR link is lost as seems more and more likely then watch KLM and Jet2 increase their loads to AMS.
Interesting times ahead.
If the LHR link is lost as seems more and more likely then watch KLM and Jet2 increase their loads to AMS.
Interesting times ahead.
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Various LBA issues!
Heathrow
It's interesting, Feb 08 v Feb 07 saw an increase in pax, 12% I think. Can't understand why! I know the ECML has had the wires down a couple of times, however the Feb 07 figures were prior to the tax rises (if memory serves) that Gordo put onto flights in his final budget. Would be interested if anyone could give some analysis to this rise in pax. Once bmi and all her sisters are happily ensconsed in Heathow East (OK I know 2012 is sometime off, although there are benefits to be derived in 2008/9), surely Star Alliance interlining will be a breeze. Will the increased BAA pax charges kill the link in the meantime?
Shaheen
Inbound performance getting better although outbound dep times are at least prior to 2300 but still far too long on the deck.
Jet2
Share price recovered to 24p after 18p in the week. Reading various articles in transport industry mags [not just aviation], a common theme seems to be how will companies deal with the belt tightening? Lots of analysis on price elasticity etc. Ryanair seem to be flooding the market with alot of cheapies to keep up their load factors, however these 1p deals have surely got to derive alot of ancillary spend for them to break even, let alone make a profit.
Assuming that disposable incomes reduce, I would have thought that some of the discretionary short break spend will evaporate vs the substantive 2 week holiday in the sun stuff, which tended to be a Thomson/Cosmos/Airtours thing prior to the Locos. Players like RYR & EZY might be more vulnerable to this downturn. Jet2 may be just in the right place through their 'holidays' function to benefit from this shake out. Time will tell, I don't know....howver this hypothesis is a counterpoint to alot of commentators, particularly on PPRuNe that see the IT side of the [new] Jet2 model merely raising costs.
I'm no apologist for Jet2, I like their product, like what they have done for LBA but am open to comments on their strategy as I just don't know.
It's interesting, Feb 08 v Feb 07 saw an increase in pax, 12% I think. Can't understand why! I know the ECML has had the wires down a couple of times, however the Feb 07 figures were prior to the tax rises (if memory serves) that Gordo put onto flights in his final budget. Would be interested if anyone could give some analysis to this rise in pax. Once bmi and all her sisters are happily ensconsed in Heathow East (OK I know 2012 is sometime off, although there are benefits to be derived in 2008/9), surely Star Alliance interlining will be a breeze. Will the increased BAA pax charges kill the link in the meantime?
Shaheen
Inbound performance getting better although outbound dep times are at least prior to 2300 but still far too long on the deck.
Jet2
Share price recovered to 24p after 18p in the week. Reading various articles in transport industry mags [not just aviation], a common theme seems to be how will companies deal with the belt tightening? Lots of analysis on price elasticity etc. Ryanair seem to be flooding the market with alot of cheapies to keep up their load factors, however these 1p deals have surely got to derive alot of ancillary spend for them to break even, let alone make a profit.
Assuming that disposable incomes reduce, I would have thought that some of the discretionary short break spend will evaporate vs the substantive 2 week holiday in the sun stuff, which tended to be a Thomson/Cosmos/Airtours thing prior to the Locos. Players like RYR & EZY might be more vulnerable to this downturn. Jet2 may be just in the right place through their 'holidays' function to benefit from this shake out. Time will tell, I don't know....howver this hypothesis is a counterpoint to alot of commentators, particularly on PPRuNe that see the IT side of the [new] Jet2 model merely raising costs.
I'm no apologist for Jet2, I like their product, like what they have done for LBA but am open to comments on their strategy as I just don't know.
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