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BD have a small based amount of cabin crew at BHX, this has been the way since the start of the contract last year to run the 3 times a day service from BHX - FRA.
However as some of the BD cabin crew have moved onto pastures green, BD have to
bring in staff from LHR and MAN to man the flights, and yes they have to stay in hotels and taxi back and forth from there respective bases.
Hope this helps.
However as some of the BD cabin crew have moved onto pastures green, BD have to
bring in staff from LHR and MAN to man the flights, and yes they have to stay in hotels and taxi back and forth from there respective bases.
Hope this helps.
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Lufthansa at BHX
It would appear that Lufthansa are pleased with forward bookings for their new Birmingham Berlin service. Lufthansa have commenced two new routes from Birmingham this Summer, Hamburg 12 times a week and daily service to Berlin. Read more on the Birmingham Post link below. 
New Berlin service brings bookings boost - Latest News - News - Birmingham Post
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New Berlin service brings bookings boost - Latest News - News - Birmingham Post
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GayFriendly, I do not know the answer to the question of where the bmi crew are based for the FRA ops, imagine it's similar at MAN? However the crew on my outbound flight on 2nd June all had Scottish accents, and when leaving I commented about bmi, and they seemed a bit depressed about the situation. As I stated when returning I spoke to the cabin manager, she said she didn't want to move to LHR as she lived in Birmingham! BTW this crew was all English, and on both flights there is a German speaking crew member. I would be surprised if LH would allow them to use a/c with BA livery, so I think that they would likely to be STAR or bmi c/s. However this is only my opinion and I don't have any inside info.
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Forgot to put in previous posting. At BHX 6 June a Strategic A320 and a JT 737-800 or 700 not quite sure. I've never heard of either carrier or know why they were there etc anyone know?
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Strategic Airlines are the Olympic Holidays flights, which last year was a based Skywings A320 operating between 6 and 13 flights a week - when it felt like it.
This year Olympic Holidays scaled back its BHX operation as I would imagine repeat bookings after last year would have been on the low side
The aircraft are away based (MAN - RHO - BHX - RHO - MAN) operating just four flights a week and there is a weekly Aegean from Larnaca on a Saturday.
The Jet Time was a one-off charter to and from Denmark (CPH or BLL), just one of many in what was an excellent week at BHX.
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Strategic Airlines are the Olympic Holidays flights, which last year was a based Skywings A320 operating between 6 and 13 flights a week - when it felt like it.
This year Olympic Holidays scaled back its BHX operation as I would imagine repeat bookings after last year would have been on the low side
The aircraft are away based (MAN - RHO - BHX - RHO - MAN) operating just four flights a week and there is a weekly Aegean from Larnaca on a Saturday.
The Jet Time was a one-off charter to and from Denmark (CPH or BLL), just one of many in what was an excellent week at BHX.
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Tonight's 1825 departure to Frankfurt didn't leave until 2152 despite the gate closing around the scheduled departure time. As I indicated in an earlier post this is now flying into Cologne due to the night time flight ban at Frankfurt.
Anyone aware of the reason for the delay?
Anyone aware of the reason for the delay?
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Germania operating on behalf of Monarch to Milan
On the Lufthansa flight from DUS(LH 3446)this afternoon(arrived 14.50), 3 Germania FA's occupied the entire business class section (2 + 1 rows) of the CRJ 700.
Guess they were going to work the Germania ( D-AHIM) A 319 service to Milan on behalf of Monarch?
Guess they were going to work the Germania ( D-AHIM) A 319 service to Milan on behalf of Monarch?
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Re the Lufthansa Frankfurt I have no idea but I will be very surprised if it goes beyond the summer schedule. I suppose it depends on any get-out clauses in the contract, as others have said Summer 13 shows LH again.
BHX2FRA - No idea of the reason for the delay
Norsemanuk - almost certainly and the Monarch sub-charter story is on-going as an Air Via A320 is now positioning in for the morning Alicante.
The Air Italy 762 also operated today's Arrecife with the Germania operating the Milan which is usually the same aircraft
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Amsterdam ended with the first cancelled and the second late. Belfast City and Knock also ended.
Aer Lingus Regional Knock is on departures for the morning.
KLM have added some capacity but not on the most important flight, the first out from BHX and last back. However the schedules show a lot more 739's on the last out KL1432 and on the KL1423/4 at times. Also from 2/7/12 the E190 changes to the 737-700.
Air France are showing A319's on the morning and afternoon service for the next three days and again this might be do with the lack of seats from the Midlands due to what has happened with Baby.
Pete
Re the Lufthansa Frankfurt I have no idea but I will be very surprised if it goes beyond the summer schedule. I suppose it depends on any get-out clauses in the contract, as others have said Summer 13 shows LH again.
BHX2FRA - No idea of the reason for the delay
Norsemanuk - almost certainly and the Monarch sub-charter story is on-going as an Air Via A320 is now positioning in for the morning Alicante.
The Air Italy 762 also operated today's Arrecife with the Germania operating the Milan which is usually the same aircraft
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Amsterdam ended with the first cancelled and the second late. Belfast City and Knock also ended.
Aer Lingus Regional Knock is on departures for the morning.
KLM have added some capacity but not on the most important flight, the first out from BHX and last back. However the schedules show a lot more 739's on the last out KL1432 and on the KL1423/4 at times. Also from 2/7/12 the E190 changes to the 737-700.
Air France are showing A319's on the morning and afternoon service for the next three days and again this might be do with the lack of seats from the Midlands due to what has happened with Baby.
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I can second OltonPete's comments ( post 1130),when everything functions you can catch a train at the International Station within 15 minutes(With cabin baggage/delivery at aircraft).
Yesterday at 14.50 hours everything went exceptionally well.E gates working and it was plain sailing thereafter.
On BBC Radio WM this morning there was a programme about BHX.Apparently they reported delays of 50 minutes going through UK Border Control yesterday at lunchtime??.(Maximum wait of 25 minutes being the target).According to industry experts this could get worse due to staff cutbacks and the regions will suffer as LHR will get priority.
On to another related subject,could somebody please explain why the escalator down to UK Border Control always seems to be out of action !
Yesterday at 14.50 hours everything went exceptionally well.E gates working and it was plain sailing thereafter.
On BBC Radio WM this morning there was a programme about BHX.Apparently they reported delays of 50 minutes going through UK Border Control yesterday at lunchtime??.(Maximum wait of 25 minutes being the target).According to industry experts this could get worse due to staff cutbacks and the regions will suffer as LHR will get priority.
On to another related subject,could somebody please explain why the escalator down to UK Border Control always seems to be out of action !
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The escalators are turned off when there is a big build up of pax in UK Border Control for obvious H&S reasons. Not sure who actually switches them off but they quite often don't get switched on again once the queues have disappeared which is why they never seem to be in action.....
The escalators are turned off when there is a big build up of pax in UK Border Control for obvious H&S reasons. Not sure who actually switches them off but they quite often don't get switched on again once the queues have disappeared which is why they never seem to be in action.....
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Thanks for swift reply.
I cannot remember these escalators ever working.(Maybe they did work back in the 90's?)
What's the idea of having them in the first place?? if they cannot be used for the purpose they were installed!
Other European airports operate escalators succesfully.
Thanks for swift reply.
I cannot remember these escalators ever working.(Maybe they did work back in the 90's?)
What's the idea of having them in the first place?? if they cannot be used for the purpose they were installed!
Other European airports operate escalators succesfully.
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UAL 27 Delay - Sunday
Does anyone have any info on the long delay on yesterday's outbound Newark flight?
Only asking because a work colleague was on it and would have missed his connection at Newark.
Only asking because a work colleague was on it and would have missed his connection at Newark.
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There was an electrical fault with the fuel system (heard that it could have been related to the fuel pumps) that was the problem. The a/c was serviceable, but with a reduced pax load. I believe many (up to 100) pax were over nighted at LHR and left on the first flight this morning.
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Other European airports operate escalators succesfully
HMG forms policy based upon the views of the Daily Mail, The Express and The Sun and as such the best course of action is probably to leave escaltors turned off - permanantly!
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Tonight's 1825 departure to Frankfurt didn't leave until 2152 despite the gate closing around the scheduled departure time. As I indicated in an earlier post this is now flying into Cologne due to the night time flight ban at Frankfurt.
Anyone aware of the reason for the delay?
Anyone aware of the reason for the delay?
LH957 BHX-FRA delayed 3:30hrs due high loader broken at side of aircraft, operated to CGN due FRA closure
LH958 FRA-BHX cancelled
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What's the idea of having them in the first place?? if they cannot be used for the purpose they were installed!
Suzeman