Another Ryanair Scottish base
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Yep, I don't think Ryanair will try to get a 737 into Dundee - my understanding is that they generally look for at least 6000 ft to avoid any restrictions on payload etc. Anyone know which is the shortest runway they serve?
Newquay, is certainly one of the longest!!
Yep, I don't think Ryanair will try to get a 737 into Dundee - my understanding is that they generally look for at least 6000 ft to avoid any restrictions on payload etc. Anyone know which is the shortest runway they serve?
Newquay, is certainly one of the longest!!
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Should be interesting - Tornados on bingo fuel competing with Ryanairs with slot times and impossible turnarounds to meet. St Mawgan's one thing; an operational RAF fighter base is something else - and it'll be even busier when the Tornado F3 OCU moves in shortly.
Bit different from the last time Leuchars was billed as Dundee Airport, in the late 1960s - Autair Airspeed Ambassadors and Handley Page Heralds to Blackpool and Luton, operating from a wee portacabin near the 22 threshold.
Bit different from the last time Leuchars was billed as Dundee Airport, in the late 1960s - Autair Airspeed Ambassadors and Handley Page Heralds to Blackpool and Luton, operating from a wee portacabin near the 22 threshold.
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Aberdeen runway is 6001 feet, must be one of the shortest, the charter lot still get fully laden 737-800's and A321's out as far as the Canaries. Don't think there are many places that could be used to fly from Aberdeen though, apart from the London airports which, at the moment, only Easyjet are doing, havn't heard of any Ryanair ABZ-STN's but would imagine that would generate a few travelers.
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Well, the shortest runway used by Ryanair is actually Lubeck in Germany with 1,800 metres or thereabouts. This is only served with -200's though. Brabazon is right, for an airport to be suitable, the runway dimensions have to be at least 2,000m x 45m (6,500' x 147') and a PCN of 45.
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Easyjet seem to get on very nicely at Inverness, and we get on very nicely at Stornoway (smaller aeroplane, admittadly, but do you REALLY need an ILS?). If the Ryanair management think that their pilots can't cope with a VOR cloud break, or an NDB/DME approach.... Maybe they are thinking money and time. I think the runway could cope - Continental (I think) dropped a 767 in last summer. Maybe repeated landing by a 737, followed by high speed taxy and hard breaking would have more of an impact on the runway and taxy way surfaces... And I'm not sure that the ramp area is quite big enough: indeed with a SF340, a J41 and an ATP it is quite full up.
But after all that their is no need for Ryanairs' open rudeness.
But after all that their is no need for Ryanairs' open rudeness.
