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Echo Taxiway Rehabilitation (Value £4m) The Echo taxiway rehabilitation project has passed through TG2. A temporary relocation of the taxiway centreline will be completed in Q1 2023 to mitigate further damage to the pavement concrete along the centreline. Full scale removal and reinstatement of the taxiway is scheduled for winter 23-24 after design has completed.
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A very rare visitor due in around 12:40 today. AirX A343. Possibly a first time visitor to EDI? Departing 18:40 this evening to Newark carrying the Manchester United football team.
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Any sign of Edinburgh getting the luggage situation under control yet? Surprised its not been highlighted much in the media yet?
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Not good when you have 6 cases and bags to move to the car-park.
The amount of baggage lying about the place was shocking. An Easyjet flight had been waiting for 40 mins on their bags.
Anyone could just take a few extra of the bags lying about. Outside the exit to the domestic arrivals it looked like a make shift holding area for luggage has been made.
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Arrived on Monday in the afternoon, and no trolleys available at domestic baggage at 15:30.
Not good when you have 6 cases and bags to move to the car-park.
The amount of baggage lying about the place was shocking. An Easyjet flight had been waiting for 40 mins on their bags.
Anyone could just take a few extra of the bags lying about. Outside the exit to the domestic arrivals it looked like a make shift holding area for luggage has been made.
Not good when you have 6 cases and bags to move to the car-park.
The amount of baggage lying about the place was shocking. An Easyjet flight had been waiting for 40 mins on their bags.
Anyone could just take a few extra of the bags lying about. Outside the exit to the domestic arrivals it looked like a make shift holding area for luggage has been made.
That’s not to say the ground handling agents aren’t under resourced baggage at EDI but bags arriving on different flights from their passengers is not here fault.
Also there is the issue of not enough taxis and drivers to deliver bags to passengers post COVID.
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Both UA services from EWR last night operated by a 763. UA161 didn’t appear to have been a last minute swap out as the flight departed pretty much on time. The planned 752 may have gone tech or been delayed elsewhere. UA36 was showing as a 763 from Monday so perhaps a few extra seats were required to satisfy demand.
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Surely Gordon Dewar wouldn't want to miss out on another opportunity to show that he's prepared to go "into the trenches" when the airport is busy. 
See 8m10s:
https://youtu.be/jca20USsgYI?t=490
See 8m10s:
https://youtu.be/jca20USsgYI?t=490
Gordon Dewar has been helping in security quite a lot at the peak times.
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Sadly not a problem exclusive to EDI. Landed at BHX last Saturday afternoon at 16.45 off a Jet2 flight, passport control was busy but surprisingly quick, bags however took 50 minutes 🙄 a fair few other flights waiting for lengthy times too and this was (luckily) after the EK 380 and QR 787 pax had cleared through.
I don't think either airport has the sufficient infrastructure in place to cope with these heavy peak flows, but with the huge expansion in long haul ops at EDI this summer, probably the issue is more pronounced there?
I don't think either airport has the sufficient infrastructure in place to cope with these heavy peak flows, but with the huge expansion in long haul ops at EDI this summer, probably the issue is more pronounced there?
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Both UA services from EWR last night operated by a 763. UA161 didn’t appear to have been a last minute swap out as the flight departed pretty much on time. The planned 752 may have gone tech or been delayed elsewhere. UA36 was showing as a 763 from Monday so perhaps a few extra seats were required to satisfy demand.
Combined there were the potential for 43 extra over both flight however doubt they sold that .
Really just a clear indication of the dire reliability of the remain 757s - They need to go from the Atlantic soonest
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N670UA which operated the second flight is premium heavy and has 2 Fewer seats than the scheduled 757 !
Combined there were the potential for 43 extra over both flight however doubt they sold that .
Really just a clear indication of the dire reliability of the remain 757s - They need to go from the Atlantic soonest
Combined there were the potential for 43 extra over both flight however doubt they sold that .
Really just a clear indication of the dire reliability of the remain 757s - They need to go from the Atlantic soonest
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Looking at the pax figures, J on both flights were sold out. A few upgrades as well probably. Four free economy seats between both flights. UA36, this evening is also a 763. The 752’s are increasingly unreliable, so I agree with you on that front. As has been commented on previously, United have a decision to make as to what metal will operate in the next year or so. Large 787 and 321XLR orders but delivery delays to boot.
There will have been some upgrades sure enough.
They will have closed at the rate of the scheduled flight ie the 757
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Sadly not a problem exclusive to EDI. Landed at BHX last Saturday afternoon at 16.45 off a Jet2 flight, passport control was busy but surprisingly quick, bags however took 50 minutes 🙄 a fair few other flights waiting for lengthy times too and this was (luckily) after the EK 380 and QR 787 pax had cleared through.
I don't think either airport has the sufficient infrastructure in place to cope with these heavy peak flows, but with the huge expansion in long haul ops at EDI this summer, probably the issue is more pronounced there?
I don't think either airport has the sufficient infrastructure in place to cope with these heavy peak flows, but with the huge expansion in long haul ops at EDI this summer, probably the issue is more pronounced there?
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BA W23
Increasing from 71 to 77 per week. Sources reporting that BA plan to use a 788 on one of the rotations. Let’s see if this turns out to be correct!
The planned increases will bring BA back to pre pandemic levels.
Increasing from 71 to 77 per week. Sources reporting that BA plan to use a 788 on one of the rotations. Let’s see if this turns out to be correct!
The planned increases will bring BA back to pre pandemic levels.
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Where is the extra near daily from City or Heathrow ?
Planeraz noted a theme at all? the smaller widebodies don’t deliver massive uplift (indeed regularly lower seat numbers) than the 757/321 through admittedly do provide for extra pallet space .
In the case of BA many moons ago this fact was instrumental in their decision to buy the 757 over competing A310 and earlier 767-200s-they didn't need the pallet space at the time and the performance was advantageous for of some of Europes shorter runways - Monarch also identified this little fact!
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Think LCY from EDI frequency cut for W23
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The point making wasn’t the use ( abuse) of the Dreamliner per say rather the implication that it would be a capacity uplift ( it won’t) through it might give some juvenile pilots a few hours I suppose.
So is the extra just a restoration of aHeathrow rotation then ?
Also do remember BA “sold out” rarely means full to capacity with numerous and varied middle seats blocked for the full fare payers indeed upto 24 on a 320 and 28 on a 321 NEO can be blocked out and still be “sold out”
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