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Old 19th Dec 2013, 22:01
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ScotsSLF I thought that too initially but they are on sale via the website and are loaded onto the GDS's.
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Old 19th Dec 2013, 22:48
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The Ibiza flights seem to be a "hybrid" - Club Europe is available, flight numbers are similar to Cityflyer (BA89xx) and seems charter orienatated, available via website, etc.

Seems a similar use (maybe as an experiment?) of capacity to that BA Cityflyer for Barrhead Travel at Glasgow.

But 3 weekly to IBZ? You'd have thought even PMI/AGP/IBZ once weekly each. I think this will bite them in the Nigels, just seems too much capacity on one route. OTOH, just clocked that its one bucket and spade route not served by Ryanair.

Oh yes, Mr C - don't you think MAN and BHX would be considered first, in the unlikely event BA mainline were to lose their London Airways title? Besides, isn't any bucket n spade route one of your regular disses?

Nothing to say that BA can't use overnight capacity wisely though, at ANY 24 hour airport, if crewing allows.

Hope its a success, though should MOL get his grubby mitts on the route, BA will disappear sharpish

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Old 31st Dec 2013, 13:29
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TK to increase to 11 x weekly from 29 March

Schedule is

TK1343 IST 08:20 EDI 10:50 739 M-W-FSa-
TK1343 IST 08:40 EDI 11:10 739 -Tu-Th--Su
TK1345 IST 12:35 EDI 15:05 738 -Tu-ThF-Su

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Old 1st Jan 2014, 11:48
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BA Cityflyer scheduled service to PMI and MAH

These are visible but not yet bookable on the BA website.

Saturdays

PMI
BA4471 EDI 0730 PMI 1130 E190
BA4472 PMI 1230 EDI 1435 E190

MAH
BA4473 EDI 1630 MAH 2030 E190
BA4474 MAH 2120 EDI 2320 E190

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Old 3rd Jan 2014, 09:35
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2nd bite at the cherry required last night? Not surprised given the wind that was blowing at the time!
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Old 4th Jan 2014, 00:05
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Some idiot was firing a laser at it on both approaches and there was significant wind-shear on the second approach too.
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Old 7th Jan 2014, 15:02
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The airport has being evacuated and closed after suspicious package was found in a bag at security.


Edinburgh Airport evacuated over suspect package - The Scotsman
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Old 7th Jan 2014, 15:47
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Probably a pilots yogurt.
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Old 7th Jan 2014, 17:05
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Now reopened. Sounds like it was a precaution than an actual threat.
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 09:46
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Airport closure due to a suspicious package in a security area

Over-reaction or not? I would have thought that there was no need to divert incoming traffic, which could have parked remotely after landing. But the police and "authorities" seem ready to take an ultra safety-first approach when it comes to closing roads and airports. This happened yesterday at EDI.

But I am not a policeman or a security professional. Could someone explain the reasons for the closure?
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 10:01
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Complete over-reaction but symptomatic of the arse-covering, risk-averse age in which we live.
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 10:03
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Roy, we don't know whether or not the police received a warning of a bomb being planted. If that was the case the nature of the bomb might not have been known (eg chemical, germs etc). Would you want to land an aircraft full of people in an area which may become lethally contaminated or to land through thick, black smoke billowing across the runway?
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 10:05
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Fully concur with MaxReheat.
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 10:23
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Would you want to land an aircraft full of people in an area which may become lethally contaminated or to land through thick, black smoke billowing across the runway?
DX, you are forgetting the nearby school, kindergarten, old age home, etc.

Get a life, people!
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 10:26
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Originally Posted by MaxReheat
Complete over-reaction but symptomatic of the arse-covering, risk-averse age in which we live.
Nowadays, risk aversion has little to do with LMF and is only partly a symptom of a CYA management style. The main reason is that avoiding risk is an increasingly prudent reaction to the highly litigious society in which we now live.

Put a foot wrong and somebody, somewhere is going to sue you.
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arse-covering
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highly litigious society
in my book anyway
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 11:42
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I agree with MaxReheat. What I worry about more is that with such over-reaction these days, some poor soul is going to be inbound doing a diversion when they close an airport and they won't be able to make it to another runway with the minimal fuel their bosses legally restrained them from carrying. I wonder what the police and the airlines will say about their overabundance of caution and meeting of legal minimums being proper if they find yet another non-bomb and have to admit that it was completely their fault that an airliner was lost with hundreds of fatalities?
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 12:12
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Sawman - airliners always have enough fuel for a divert, and if they had an issue they could still call "mayday" and would be allowed to land, even in the middle of a security alert.

On one of those fly-on-the-wall programs, they evacuated the airport after a passenger had an ashtray that looked on the x-ray machine silhouette a bit like a grenade. The passenger was more than happy to open up his bag and show the security guys that it was an ashtray, but they wouldn't let him. The airport was closed for hours. Sometimes some common sense would help...

However we don't know the circumstances around this. To be honest, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often!
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 12:13
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I agree with MaxReheat. What I worry about more is that with such over-reaction these days, some poor soul is going to be inbound doing a diversion when they close an airport and they won't be able to make it to another runway with the minimal fuel their bosses legally restrained them from carrying. I wonder what the police and the airlines will say about their overabundance of caution and meeting of legal minimums being proper if they find yet another non-bomb and have to admit that it was completely their fault that an airliner was lost with hundreds of fatalities?
Whilst it may have been an over reaction this is just plain twaddle.
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Old 8th Jan 2014, 12:48
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Not necessarily, i could find myself in that situation quite easily.
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