Aberdeen-3

[mikegss]

We know lengthy line closures can be a real inconvenience for customers" [David Simpson, ScotRail service delivery director]

It's pretty clear why he's a Scotrail director.

[Asturias56]

Better than "the wrong sort of snow" I really heard that interview on Radio 4....................

[VickersVicount]

Do we honestly think an improved rail service will be a sudden boon for ABZ? It does virtually zero for PIK…

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by VickersVicount

Do we honestly think an improved rail service will be a sudden boon for ABZ? It does virtually zero for PIK…

It helped drive PIK to it's highest ever passenger numbers when Ryanair and PIK partenered with Scotrail. It does wonders for MAN and LGW, it seems bizarre to pretend that airport to railway connections won't have any impact at all.....

[nighthawk117]

Originally Posted by Skipness One Foxtrot

It helped drive PIK to it's highest ever passenger numbers when Ryanair and PIK partenered with Scotrail. It does wonders for MAN and LGW, it seems bizarre to pretend that airport to railway connections won't have any impact at all.....

So you're saying if you took away the MAN/LGW rail links, there'd be a significant drop in traffic? I don't buy that.. i'd say the vast majority of people using the train would just switch to an alternative form of transport and still use the same airport.

Trains make it easier - but without them it wouldn't stop people travelling.

[5711N0205W]

Anyone know yet if Tui are being Tui for S23 or if it's Orange Sunwings Tui again this year?

[Yeehaw22]

Originally Posted by 5711N0205W

Anyone know yet if Tui are being Tui for S23 or if it's Orange Sunwings Tui again this year?

Sunwing confirmed

[5711N0205W]

Originally Posted by Yeehaw22

Sunwing confirmed

Thanks, don't seem to have the 'like' option on this sub forum yet.

[Richard Taylor]

Don't need a 'like' option for Sunwing if S22 was anything to go by! Then again, suppose it's Sunwing obo TUI or no-one up here....

[5711N0205W]

Originally Posted by Richard Taylor

Don't need a 'like' option for Sunwing if S22 was anything to go by! Then again, suppose it's Sunwing obo TUI or no-one up here....

Like for the helpful answer rather than the carrier…. hoping the programme doesn’t fall apart too badly!

[5711N0205W]

What's behind the multiple BA LHR cancellations over the last few days?

[Jamesair1]

They were asked by the Airport to cut flights over the holiday period to help cope with the Security Officers strike. BA announced a series of cancellations, which would affect short haul, multiple daily flight destinations.

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by Jamesair1

They were asked by the Airport to cut flights over the holiday period to help cope with the Security Officers strike. BA announced a series of cancellations, which would affect short haul, multiple daily flight destinations.

that's the way to build a business - no doubt about it.................

[5711N0205W]

Came out to PMI with Sunwings a week or so ago and was somewhat surprised to find one of Aberdeen’s finest security team members (definitely security and not airfield ops) standing point at the nose of the aircraft.

Can’t say I’ve noticed this before, so anything to do with the fact it’s a foreign registered aircraft (though BRA current in for Logan at the moment too) or some other reason?

Maybe it’s to weed out troublemakers looking too happy at escaping EGPD and the danger they may not return to pay whatever fee gouge the airport has come up with this week…

[NE_Scot_ABZ]

I can't see it being the aircraft registration, as KLM aircraft (frequent users of the airport) are registered in the Netherlands.

[Richard Taylor]

I think it's time to just close the airport. Glory days are long gone.

[5711N0205W]

Originally Posted by NE_Scot_ABZ

I can't see it being the aircraft registration, as KLM aircraft (frequent users of the airport) are registered in the Netherlands.

True, though KLM are not home based there as Sunwing are over the er Summer, I’m sure there’s a pointless bureaucratic reason somewhere.

[Asturias56]

Originally Posted by Richard Taylor

I think it's time to just close the airport. Glory days are long gone.

Starting to look like one of those Spanish airports they built and no-one came.......

A guy I know always said that the N Sea would be over when they opened the Aberdeen By-pass (which had been planned since 1970) - looks like he was right.........................

[ATIS31]

What's up with Eastern Airways ? Loads of cancellations are they short of crew ?

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

Did Swissport close their Aberdeen handling station? Everyone is now with Dal-X handling? (Dalcross, GEDDIT?)