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I'm not sure that there is any great need to do it. The Rnav approach is normally good enough, the Loc/Dme is available. Many aircraft have integrated approach navigation that turns these in to virtual ILS anyhow. The minima is higher than a cat 1 ILS but when the visibility is bad enough for it to be an issue then a switch to RW15 with a small tailwind is considered. I have done that a few times.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
I'm not sure that there is any great need to do it. The Rnav approach is normally good enough, the Loc/Dme is available. Many aircraft have integrated approach navigation that turns these in to virtual ILS anyhow. The minima is higher than a cat 1 ILS but when the visibility is bad enough for it to be an issue then a switch to RW15 with a small tailwind is considered. I have done that a few times.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
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I'm not sure that there is any great need to do it. The Rnav approach is normally good enough, the Loc/Dme is available. Many aircraft have integrated approach navigation that turns these in to virtual ILS anyhow. The minima is higher than a cat 1 ILS but when the visibility is bad enough for it to be an issue then a switch to RW15 with a small tailwind is considered. I have done that a few times.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
How many aircraft have failed to get in to BHX since the G/P became u/s? I don't know but I cant think it is that many.
There have been many delays, go-arounds and holding and certainly enough to ask questions why it hasn't been resolved and I don't like BHX's attitude to when it is mentioned either but that is another story.
Wizz restart Budapest tomorrow twice weekly which should make it a busy day with KLM, Ryanair Dublin and an Aegean repat flight assuming they all operate.
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Wizz restart Budapest tomorrow twice weekly which should make it a busy day with KLM, Ryanair Dublin and an Aegean repat flight assuming they all operate.
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All incoming Pax checked in country of origin, tested and found to be virus free?
Oh look Ma, here comes the Second Wave.
Forget Safety, show me the money!
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All incoming Pax checked in country of origin, tested and found to be virus free?
Oh look Ma, here comes the Second Wave.
Forget Safety, show me the money!
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Compared with the amount of disease circulating in this country, any arriving now is trivial. I assume that most coming from eastern Europe are agricultural workers, and will be living on site, so automatically quarantined.
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I am not sure we'll see that ! Rumblings are 2 week isolation when anyone, including Brits, return to the UK. If other countries do it you'll have to spend 2 weeks in your hotel room before you can go near a beach or bar. A two week holiday would take 6 weeks ! Who an earth is going to leave the country ? or be prepared to go another country faced with isolation on arrival ? We need some sort of health passport to remove these potential measures.
Without wishing to have this thread drift towards another covid-19 one, a vaccine, despite Trumps claims, is unlikely to be available for the general population for a long time, if immunity through antibodies is proven, then an immunity passport may be more likely in the short term. If some really effective drugs are found that treat patients and keep them out of ICUs that could also help re-open travel. On a more positive note, watching and reading the German media there are moves towards re-opening borders more widely, not just restricting movement to essential workers in several European countries, and the UK ought to follow that lead, though obviously with a time lag as we're not a the same stage in the trajectory of infections.
I just can't see how package holidays by air can really work if some of the social distancing rules aren't relaxed. Even if they were relaxed, can you imagine the cost of travel insurance for healthy passengers, let alone for people with co-morbidities?
I just can't see how package holidays by air can really work if some of the social distancing rules aren't relaxed. Even if they were relaxed, can you imagine the cost of travel insurance for healthy passengers, let alone for people with co-morbidities?
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Airport hours increased slightly to allow a nightly freight flight to Munich, new hours are 08:00 - 01:15 between 17 May - 27 May
FTL631 departs to Munich at 01:15 and returns at 08:00 using a Flightline Spain SW4
FTL631 departs to Munich at 01:15 and returns at 08:00 using a Flightline Spain SW4
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Emirates to Permanently Decommission 40% of Airbus A380 Fleet
'Emirates will resume regularly scheduled passenger flights to just nine destinations on May 21 but has walked back plans to restart services to as many as 150 cities by mid-July. All flights are being operated by Boeing 777 aircraft and Sir Tim has said the future for Emirates’ fleet is the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.'
The 'old' Monarch hangar to be used to convert the RAF's 737 'Wedgetails'
https://www.flightglobal.com/defence...138461.article
Announcing the selection on 20 May, Boeing said the narrowbodies will be prepared for military service using a hangar at Birmingham airport which was previously occupied by Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL). “This work will provide good jobs for the many skilled aerospace engineers and mechanics in and around Birmingham,” says Boeing Defence UK managing director Anna Keeling. STS expects to employ around 90 new personnel in support of the activity, which will also involve Boeing staff with experience of prior Wedgetail conversions performed for Australia, South Korea and Turkey.
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The 'old' Monarch hangar to be used to convert the RAF's 737 'Wedgetails'
https://www.flightglobal.com/defence...138461.article
https://www.flightglobal.com/defence...138461.article
Expect cost overruns late entry and numerous problems and incompatibilities !
Oh and lack of compatible inflight refuelling as our Voyagers haven’t been fitted with a flying boom system as a “cost saving” by the MOD .
Even those three ancient RC135S acquired at great and unspecified cost remain totally reliant of the US and France for extended task operations - Classic
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Parking and restarts
It would have certainly looked empty if the Flybe aircraft had ben returned to the lessor.
Update
Emirates - July removed from sale now August (mAN & GLA remain July the last time I looked)
Wizz - Most routes revised to week 1 of June but Budapest continues
Eurowings - Dussledorf pushed back again now 5th June three a week (Fr, Sun & Mon)
Lufthansa - Frankfurt 15 June but showing 3 daily was daily. No doubt that won't happen
Turkish - 10 June now - seems to be on a rolling basis
Air France - Friday 12 June HOP 190 (Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun) - hopefully this one might happen
easyjet - No change Tue, Thu, Sat BFS 16 June
KLM - no change 6 or 7 weekly as now
Ryanair - no change 4 a week Dublin until the end of June when ALC & AGP showing
Occasional flights
AI113 operates today from Delhi as a Boring 77W which is a repat flight
Nordwind 77W en route from CAN via SVO and due again tomorrow which I assume is PPE
Pete
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