BIRMINGHAM - 5

[wet wet wet]

Pity we never got a glimpse of the old bi-plane model that hung from the ceiling on the first floor in that video; I was always fascinated by that thing.

It's a replica of a Blériot XI monoplane that was built by Humber in Coventry in 1909, although it has an genuine Humber engine. You can still see it at the Midland Air Museum at Coventry Airport.

[justplanecrazy84]

Flights to India

What are the chances of seeing Air India back at BHX or even Jet starting flights to india?

Correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't the flights to india popular with good loads?

[ATNotts]

justplanecrazy84:

Chances are probably somewhere around zero - or perhaps a little less than that!

[nigel osborne]

Flights to India,

Well Jet have already stated Manchester will be their next UK airport ,no time scale though.

Air India have had plenty of opportunity to return to BHX but seem to have also lost interest.

Generally in long haul BHX will do well to hold onto United.Emirates and PIA seem are pretty safe.

Nigel

[justplanecrazy84]

Flights to India

I thought the numbers were good with the flights from BHX to India?

[groundhogbhx]

Yes if you count the transit pax.

[ATNotts]

justplanecrazy84

Doesn't matter how good the numbers are, if the passengers want to pay two halves of nothing for their seats a legacy carrier simply won't make a profit, there need to be a mix of front end and back end passengers and the BHX/India market is pretty well 100% leisure.

However, as with all things Air India - if the Indian government, for political reasons wants a BHX link, then be sure AI will have to provide one!

[justplanecrazy84]

So politics has a big influence on airlines and where they fly?

Thanks for all your replies they are helping me learn and understand more about the aviation industry which has always been a very big interest of mine.

Oh and sorry if bug anyone with any silly questions.

[RealFish]

Sonic Boom

The conspiracy theorists are all of a twitter over the sonic boom heard this evening over much of the Midlands

I liked this from the BBC

Birmingham Airport dismissed suggestions the sound could have been caused by a sonic boom as a plane came in to land.

Now just how long is the runway extension? Or are they fitting arrestor gear so that an A380 won't have to bother slowing down on approach?

[justplanecrazy84]

Now that would be interesting for passengers! lol

[Guest 112233]

Sonic Boom

Nah! As we conspiracy Theorists have always said there's an Aurora parked around the back of the "Clock's" car park - "They" were just a bit hot and high on the approach.

Or !!!!

Someone's just got a temporary hand/eye throttle co-ordination problem vis a vis another's finger fumbling with a simple number like say 7000.

That second 0 after the 7 is actually quite useful.

Or !!!!

Was it Sword swallowing or Sabre rattling - I always get the two mixed up - A bit like numbers (the proper phrase is discalculic).

Bring back 4321 as a setting for that Cockerel Crow (Enough of my squawking). Funny thing ergonomics.

CAT III

[nigel osborne]

Realfish. Know you were only joking however on a serious note

Arrestor bed for BHX would be out of the question..cost nearly £2 million and regs say airports that use them have to keep a spare one in a hangar to replace if ones already been used.

Nigel

[ZULUBOY]

Lufthansa Berlin flights. Timetable change again

Times have changed for my in-laws flights from Berlin on the 5th June returning on the 10th. They now arrive in Brum at 18:25. On their return flight they arrive back in Berlin at 21:55.

We're booked to fly to Berlin on the 21st July and this seems unaffected so not sure which period has changed.

[GayFriendly]

LH BER

Zuluboy - Looks like Sat flights stay as 1305 departure ex BHX, Sun-Fri are re-timed to arrive BHX at 1825 depart 1905, I am booked to go in both July and August the later times do not really suit me but there we go. I think it was originally booked for these times when the route was launched then changed - when I booked a few weeks ago it was daily at 1305 so this re-time can have only recently happened. I wonder how bookings are shaping up as there is still an awful lot of low fare availability throughout Jul and Aug when I last checked.....

[Suzeman]

Arrestor bed for BHX would be out of the question..cost nearly £2 million and regs say airports that use them have to keep a spare one in a hangar to replace if ones already been used.

Think you are getting arrestor wires and an arrestor bed muddled up...

Suzeman

[justplanecrazy84]

Diversions

Does anyone know if BHX are taking any diversions from gatwick??

[revo]

LGW Diverts

Nothing so far, most have gone to other London airports

Revo

[justplanecrazy84]

Thanks revo!

[GayFriendly]

Interesting article on anna aero website about EDI - out of its top 12 routes in terms of pax volume, nine are domestic with BHX proudly being the airports busiest non-LON route (288,955 pax in 2011) LHR accounts for 1.27 million pax, no wonder it is streets ahead of BHX in pax!

The future of WW is looking ever more bleak, very depressing posts on WW thread, it really would seem that there is now no potential buyer, based on that it is far more likely that it will be bye bye baby this winter - it must be a very worrying time for those who work there. Unlike many I have had nothing but good service from WW I have flown with them a number of times from BHX and will be sad if they do indeed end up biting the dust

[CabinCrewe]

Equally, Im not sure how sustainable and attractive it is to have most of your top routes as being domestic. As over time these will get erroded with high speed rail etc.