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It's been going on for a while now. The pile driving currently in progress in the KIng Georhe dock is a significant part of this, as both these items will extend over the dock. The discovery back last February of the unexploded bomb in the dock which closed the airport for a day was at the start of this work.
This morning the low cloud was not even halfway up the Canary Wharf high rises. What was the cloud base ? 200 feet if that.
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SEN took a few, Lufthansa, Luxair, Eastern Airways, etc but the KLM overshot when the fog rolled in and he went to Norwich.
Worse today. At 0830 cloudbase was about the top of the trees in my garden. Flybe sounded like the first to shoot an approach, at 1030, having delayed their departure from Edinburgh by 2.5 hours. Alas a go-around.
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Hopefully it'll work out better this time round.
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This is a good time to launch with BA NCL-LHR down to an average of 30 flights a week in Q1 2019 (compared to 46 a week recently and 39 a week provisionally next summer). Good luck to them.
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Also has anything changed to suggest the route can work?
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I used this route a few times back in the day and it was about 50% full each time, but as with all Eastern fares it was ridiculously expensive, the benefit of the slightly shorter journey time, once you factor in security times, were easily offset by the advantage of 1st class rail with inclusive food, wi-fi etc. The quoted fares of £80 in the press release could make it viable, but the J41 is still an awful aircraft so the train will definitely be more comfortable! Hope it works though as it is good to have options.
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I used this route a few times back in the day and it was about 50% full each time, but as with all Eastern fares it was ridiculously expensive, the benefit of the slightly shorter journey time, once you factor in security times, were easily offset by the advantage of 1st class rail with inclusive food, wi-fi etc. The quoted fares of £80 in the press release could make it viable, but the J41 is still an awful aircraft so the train will definitely be more comfortable! Hope it works though as it is good to have options.
