Correct: I checked the price for a return flight Manchester-Newquay in January
£58 return travelling via Bristol

Yet if I just want to do Manchester-Bristol return it comes to £119 - very odd!

Having checked Flybe's website, it looks as though they will not be operating the summer only BHD - NQY next year, Would this be an opportunity for ASW to extend their network a little further?

Jet2 are coming on to Belfast Newquay operating from BFS for the summer season, so perhaps ASW wont look at it.

So Flybe are launching LGW NQY complete bully tactics here. Flybe have said that they have aspirations to grow at LGW and then they they get onto a route where there will be a price war and losses until they get rid of ASW. In my view NQY is another airport where they want exclusivity just like at Exeter so that they can bully airport management.

Personally I have little time for Flybe, another IOM story all over again. We will see what happens when Flybe end up getting the same treatment from FR, FR will eventually get onto a exact same route as Flybe and we will see how Flybe fair.

I think ASW is a great little company and I really do hope that the locals show loyalty to them.

EI-BUD

Just like all the locals in Cork showed to Aer Arann on Cork Dublin route you mean??

There was a Thomson 767 in this morning operating a cruise charter to Barbados/Bridgetown.

Must be a day for being grumpy.......




Big headlines in the local SW rag yesterday

RYANAIR SEEKS PAYOUT OVER AIRPORT CLOSURE

Quite right too; the sums hinted at are huge. The paper points out that FR went for £455,000 for a few hours closure at STN.

ASW and Skybus are joining in the fun.

Now, it would be a shame if the taxpayers end up paying for their Council's incompetence.

I know; the officials responsible, from the Town Clerk (Chief Executive or whatever grandiose title is used) downwards should be made to fork out the sums awarded from their obscenely, ridiculously high salaries, if necessary for the next few years. They could manage several millions with even having to cut back much.

After all, they are always telling us how they get these bloated salaries because they have to "take responsibility", and that they are "worth every penny".

So let's see some "responsibility" being taken.

The whole affair was a fiasco.

Councillor Whalley has it seems survived a vote of no confidence. Now I wonder what the outcome would have been if the rate payers had voted on that?

Sets me to thinking...

What's the current Fire & Rescue Category? And runway Cat? Anyone know?

Presumably the provision for occasional operations by aircraft 1 or 2 FRS Cats above might have been used.

But is the airfield really equipped for B767 and wide-body fire suppression and evacuation assistance; foam, rescue equipment, trained personnel, breathing gear, etc etc etc?

I wonder when the last full-scale, blue-light crash exercise was carried out.

I'm asking, not hinting that I know things are not kosher. I just don't know, and am interested.

From the NATS site

http://www.sasgar.com.au/media/image...ntherca5-2.jpg

Cat 7 is 39 up to 49m fuselage length and 5m width
Cat 8 is 49 up to 61m fuselage length and 7m width

Though I somehow doubt that anyone would be allowed to operate if the capability was not up to legal requirements!!

Old not Bold

Do you really think Thompson would operate to an Airfield without the correct fire cover ??

NO

These flights from Airports not served on a regular basis are looked at very close

They also look at Terminal Capacity Loading Equipment etc


Thompson fly are not Idiots they have been going too long ????


Maybe Air Mooriche (Based in a Third world country)with its Tri Star may not not be bothered about airfield fire cover etc but be assured the reputable airlines do

... easy on the Tristar mate, its a wonderful aircraft!

Kosher meals on departing flights from Newquay however may be a problem! :8

The few hours at STN probably affected more Ryanair flights than three weeks of Ryanair operations at NQY :=

BBC reported today that the person to lead a fearless, independent investigation into the fiasco that was Cornwall County Council's handling of the take-over of Newquay from the RAF has been selected, by Cornwall County Council.

This is excellent news. We can now expect that no stone will be left unturned as this expert, hard-hitting investigator spares no feelings as he uncovers the person or persons responsible, and exposes their inadeqacies to the public gaze.

This champion of the people will not shrink from pointing the finger at those senior Council officials whose incompetence, laziness and stupidity led to the disaster that could still cost the taxpayers millions.

After all, he should know where to look. He's the ex-Chief Executive of, guess what........................

........... Cornwall County Council.


You couldn't make it up.

Does anyone know what the current stand capacity is at Newquay? Are they still using the RAF 'pans?' sadly the UK AIP proves to be of no use and can't seem to find any information anywhere :D

Cheers,

Alex

cant remember the exact number of stands but it has been increased since initial mod days, i think they can easily deal with 2 737's and about 4 dh8's but i cant give exacts

NQY schmoooQY
 

i was at NQY last summer for a few flights,
quaint little airport but really the builders were a right bunch of cowboys doing the new terminal make-over... (have they watched the tele programs?)

the door handle came off in my hand and the taps in the new gents loos were stuck on so 100's litres of water per hour were draining away,
24 hours later the taps were still like that and one had fallen off...
i found the builders boss (had hard hat on, so it must have been him lol) and
he said the build quality was a mess, oh dear,

and you ripped me off NQY £5 a flight for the privilidge of sitting in a shed...
hey ho....

BE started LGW this morning.

.................Everything ok so far?

So what is the feeling on the ground then, I know the service has only just begun but I would imagine any impact on other services would be apparant from pretty much day one?