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DL are stopping their service during the winter and returning next spring. United will be the only airline flying to the New York area during the winter.
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US immigration pre-clearance
EDI now added by the US Department of Homeland Security to the list of possible future pre-clearance airports, alongside 10 other airport round the world:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/11/04/...sion-following
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/11/04/...sion-following
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US Borders in the U.K.
The major stumbling block for this will be firearms. The UK police & Border Force are not routinely armed, I can't see a foreign government's law enforcement officers carrying guns in the UK. I believe the only example of this is the Police Aux Frontieres in St Pancras, Stafford & Ashford who can travel on Eurostar with their guns but have store them when operating in the station. I can't see the Americans being so easily persuaded in handing there guns over to Border Force (Glasgow) or Police Scotland (on behalf of Border Force), although the US Sky Marshals already do so.
Manchester has, it is to be signed off in spriing and will be placed in the first of the new piers on T2
and should be available in 2019 but I believe Heathrow is just to complex because of several terminals
being involved.
and should be available in 2019 but I believe Heathrow is just to complex because of several terminals
being involved.
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For me a lot of the US immigration stuff depends on the airport. I've had a very smooth experience at airports like BOS with friendly chatty staff, whilst ORD is an absolute disgrace to the point I'll never use the airport again.
Another million plus month...
Domestic 453,323 down 0.9% from last year.
International 676,397 up 23.6% from last year.
Total 1,129,720 for the month of October! Up 12.5%!
Regards 4ea
Domestic 453,323 down 0.9% from last year.
International 676,397 up 23.6% from last year.
Total 1,129,720 for the month of October! Up 12.5%!
Regards 4ea
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In the proper place now - revised EDI Masterplan published for consultation today.
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/e...n_11112016.pdf
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/e...n_11112016.pdf
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Excellent to see EDI go from strength to strength. Sadly, just like LHR & its proposed 3rd runway, you do wonder if protestors will bog any plans down in the courts for a new runway.
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It will be a long way off before EDI needs a 3rd runway. One good thing about the EDI plans is that it is mainly farmland which will be needed. LHR R3 is going to have to destroy villages, displacing hundreds of people (perhaps more), rerouting motorways and other major roads and railway lines too. EDI won't have any of that, from looking at maps today there are just a few farm houses and a garden centre which would need to be razed and a few country roads removed. It won't please everyone, but there is not as strong a case to oppose it on the same grounds as LHR. Unless of course the farmland which is currently there is deliberately sold to developers in a bid to disrupt the airports growth, which I can see happening. EDI need to snap up the land as and when it becomes available.
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Passengers don't need a "3rd" (second actually) runway. Aircraft movements might. But aircraft movements have yet to get back up to the level they were at 14 years ago. Demonstrated need for a new runway is still a long way off. And in the intervening period there will be (Trump notwithstanding) greater pressure on aviation emissions reduction and - I would predict - a change in the attitude that a new EDI runway is easy because it "only" involves concreting over farmland.
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The masterplan states that the plan is to have runway 12/30 closed. It is not very long nor well equipped, as far as I know it can't handle anything above an B737/A320. Even at that the lack of precision approaches makes it restricted particularly in terms of weather.
Besides, Gatwick handles in excess of 40m pax with a single runway, 12m nowhere near justifies it.
Besides, Gatwick handles in excess of 40m pax with a single runway, 12m nowhere near justifies it.
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The masterplan states that the plan is to have runway 12/30 closed. It is not very long nor well equipped, as far as I know it can't handle anything above an B737/A320. Even at that the lack of precision approaches makes it restricted particularly in terms of weather.
Besides, Gatwick handles in excess of 40m pax with a single runway, 12m nowhere near justifies it.
Besides, Gatwick handles in excess of 40m pax with a single runway, 12m nowhere near justifies it.