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This week at NCL:
FZFG at NCL Tue
Handlers de-icing rig broke Wed
Aircraft tech Wed nt with cold weather issues
Couldn’t get usual replacement aircraft in from ABZ due mass disruption, snow and ice causing havoc with crew and maintenance schedule. Also one 145 late back from C check just on its way home now and an ATR late back from C Check home earlier today, both over a week late.
Just about getting back on track now. Not a good week to be flying.
FZFG at NCL Tue
Handlers de-icing rig broke Wed
Aircraft tech Wed nt with cold weather issues
Couldn’t get usual replacement aircraft in from ABZ due mass disruption, snow and ice causing havoc with crew and maintenance schedule. Also one 145 late back from C check just on its way home now and an ATR late back from C Check home earlier today, both over a week late.
Just about getting back on track now. Not a good week to be flying.
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Piece from a local rag.
Pilot mistook the A1 for Newcastle Airport's runway | The Northern Echo
Pilot mistook the A1 for Newcastle Airport's runway | The Northern Echo
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Regarding G-JZHK diversion- it suffered an instrument failure which precluded it flying in icing conditions. It's raining in Newcastle (airframe icing conditions) and gin clear in Manchester. I was on it.
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New system, so they still come out monthly, but figures are two months behind the month. So October came out end of December. November will come out end of January.
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Taking advantage of a lull in proceedings to ask a possibly strange question that occurred to me the other day...
Going through my aircraft photos, I noticed that every airport of any size (I'm excluding places like Stronsay and Alderney here) has a block paving surface on the ramp. The only exceptions I can find are Reykjavik (the domestic airport, not Keflavik), Vagar in the Faroe Islands, El Hierro in the Canary Islands - none of which handle large jets of the size of some that frequent NCL - and possibly Luxembourg, although it was raining when I was there so it's hard to say for certain.
Basically, why does Newcastle have a tarmac ramp?
Idle hypothesis here: Something to do with the possibility of subsidence or shifting ground? The Canaries and Iceland are volcanic (not sure about the Faroes?). Tyneside and Luxembourg are both riddled with mine workings, iron in Luxembourg and coal on Tyneside.
I'm probably wrong here, but any ideas / inside info?
Going through my aircraft photos, I noticed that every airport of any size (I'm excluding places like Stronsay and Alderney here) has a block paving surface on the ramp. The only exceptions I can find are Reykjavik (the domestic airport, not Keflavik), Vagar in the Faroe Islands, El Hierro in the Canary Islands - none of which handle large jets of the size of some that frequent NCL - and possibly Luxembourg, although it was raining when I was there so it's hard to say for certain.
Basically, why does Newcastle have a tarmac ramp?
Idle hypothesis here: Something to do with the possibility of subsidence or shifting ground? The Canaries and Iceland are volcanic (not sure about the Faroes?). Tyneside and Luxembourg are both riddled with mine workings, iron in Luxembourg and coal on Tyneside.
I'm probably wrong here, but any ideas / inside info?
Selection of pax figures for november 22
paris..................7905
dusseldorf..........1651
frankfurt..............3266
cork....................2394
dublin...............17,111
milan..................2332
rome...................2537
amsterdam.......20,398
barcelona............2863
stavanger..............702
prague................2586
riga....................1857
gdansk...............2416
krakow................5762
wroclaw...............2324
dubai...............12,800
paphos.......1343
faro............6021
funchal.......1233
alicante....14,609
malaga.......8049
palma......... 596
arrecife.....12,376
fuerteventura....6510
las palmas..7721
tenerife....22,878
antalya.......3821
dalaman..... 579
hurghada...1402
aberdeen...............764
belfast city...........766
belfast int.........14,771
bristol..................7541
exeter....................861
heathrow..........40,488
southampton......3680
paris..................7905
dusseldorf..........1651
frankfurt..............3266
cork....................2394
dublin...............17,111
milan..................2332
rome...................2537
amsterdam.......20,398
barcelona............2863
stavanger..............702
prague................2586
riga....................1857
gdansk...............2416
krakow................5762
wroclaw...............2324
dubai...............12,800
paphos.......1343
faro............6021
funchal.......1233
alicante....14,609
malaga.......8049
palma......... 596
arrecife.....12,376
fuerteventura....6510
las palmas..7721
tenerife....22,878
antalya.......3821
dalaman..... 579
hurghada...1402
aberdeen...............764
belfast city...........766
belfast int.........14,771
bristol..................7541
exeter....................861
heathrow..........40,488
southampton......3680
Last edited by Jamesair1; 21st Jan 2023 at 08:53.