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Heard RYR have been sniffing round Cambridge this week !
Possible diversion field or are they getting fed up of Stansted ?
Heard RYR have been sniffing round Cambridge this week !
Possible diversion field or are they getting fed up of Stansted ?
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The runway is long enough, it's just that to get to the "terminal" entails taxying along a very narrow taxiway which has enough bearing strength to accomodate a couple of tubby starlings.
Cambridge is equipped to accomodate bizjets for the nearby racing and the City, widebodies for the factory and very little else.
Cambridge is equipped to accomodate bizjets for the nearby racing and the City, widebodies for the factory and very little else.
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From: STANSTED & MANCHESTER
I had to take a coach load of EZY passenger to Cambridge when the
last hijacking was at Stansted, in total there were 5 EZY and 7 RYR flights
on the ground at Cambridge... the other problem with Cambridge Airport is its location and carparks or lack of them, the road outside the [for want of a better word] Terminal is busy enough with local traffic, it would never work as an Airport for more than 1 or 2 Ryanair flights a day.
last hijacking was at Stansted, in total there were 5 EZY and 7 RYR flights
on the ground at Cambridge... the other problem with Cambridge Airport is its location and carparks or lack of them, the road outside the [for want of a better word] Terminal is busy enough with local traffic, it would never work as an Airport for more than 1 or 2 Ryanair flights a day.
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Both Ryanair and Easyjet had Menzies come down to CBG in 2007/2008 to do a study if the airfield could handle at least 4 or 5 flights a days from each airline, the answer was yes if they increased the arrivals and departures to which I belive Marshalls agreed to, also they have reviewed plans to dig up the grass parking area and make it a hard parling area for 737 & 757.
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Point 1: The taxiways to the "terminal" at Cambridge are piss poor, not wide enough and incapable of handling much more than a FK50, never mind a fully loaded B737.
Point 2: Cambridge do not have the ground/terminal staffing, training or capability to handle normal scheduled flights, Suckling with 20 or so business folk was one thing, Ryanair with 200 or so passengers in various states of coherence is entirely another.
Point 3: Marshalls, despite many years of having the opportunity, have not take advantage of the potential to attract this sort of traffic, sadly their management has let them down and it's their loss.
Point 2: Cambridge do not have the ground/terminal staffing, training or capability to handle normal scheduled flights, Suckling with 20 or so business folk was one thing, Ryanair with 200 or so passengers in various states of coherence is entirely another.
Point 3: Marshalls, despite many years of having the opportunity, have not take advantage of the potential to attract this sort of traffic, sadly their management has let them down and it's their loss.
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From: STANSTED & MANCHESTER
point 1 must be wrong !
As I have said afew posts ago, I took a coach load of passengers from
Stansted to Cambridge, there were afew FR and EZY 737's on the
groung at once, you must be wrong with point one.
Stansted to Cambridge, there were afew FR and EZY 737's on the
groung at once, you must be wrong with point one.
