I understand AA have come across another LHR slot and their final LGW flight (the 78/79 to DFW) is transferring across later in the year?

I understand TOM/FCA to take most of zones A&B with (I assume) Lithuanian, Air Plus Comet, Delta staying on Zone A, Virgin Nigeria and Oman Air keeping zone B? and Brussels Airlines, Malev etc on Zone Z.

BA to keep zones C & D, Easyjet to have the whole of zone E for ex-GB routes and Geneva and Belin I think and Continental and Emirates to have Zone F between them. Don't know about where Qatar will go.

Pakistan Airlines
 

Anyone goy any information on a possible start up for Pakistan Airlines into Gatwick this summer / next autumn

Not sure if it is a transfer of a flight from Heathrow or a extra service ?

Info i heard was for a daily service arriving at 14;00 departing at 17;00 !!!

Bagmanlgw

They had been using Stansted as a 2nd London airport

Lgw - Ssh
 

Hi All,

Anyone know what a/c is used on the LGW - SSH (FCA470) on a thursday during the summer?

any info will be great!

Thanks
BCG

Thomsonfly Cargo schedule shows B752 on the FCA470 to SSH

cool cheers for that mate! :ok:

Telegraph reporting about faulty scales at LGW according to a Trading Standards study:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...2/nbags102.xml


Wonder what airline qualified for the top spot with 10 out 18 scales ripping of the pax.

Scales
 

Isn't the 'landlord' responsible for the accuracy of the scales, not the 'tenants'???

JSW

Well apprntly it was more about "forgetting" to reset the scales properly etc. If they were allowed to, they worked properly.....

New Ba Lgw - Jfk
 

Announced today as of 27th October'08 their will be a daily service on a 4 class a/c

Lgw-jfk 1110-1405 Ba2173

Jfk-lgw 1800-0605 Ba2172

Hmmm.... this is inconsistent with the general move of longhaul services from LGW to Heathrow.

So is this just a one-off tactical move, or the beginning of a change in strategy...?

13Alpha

will this be a 777 or a 747?
-had heard a rumour that these may return to LGW:)

Clickair
 

New route: LGW - Vigo

Tue, Thurs, Sat starting June 21st

Don't crack open the champagne JUST yet....
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7381323.stm

:)

Celebrate? Manchester is a total Horlicks at the moment. It has the most disgraceful crew security facilities I have ever seen anywhere- how nice to queue up next to giant trolleys of washroom towels and tissues in a cold concrete corridor with wheelie bins wheeled past as the doors are wide open on freezing wet days! They run Bournemouth Airport as a shambles- have you actually seen it? Huts! Could this be the only company worse than BAA? Heaven help us!

BA and the South East
 

The article makes the point that BA is only interested in serving the SE. I would qualify that to, only interested in serving LHR.

My prefered airport is Gatwick. I travel to a lot of European destinations, but mainly Geneva, Paris and Frankfurt. The service BA provides to these cities from Gatwick is either non existant or atrocious. Flights to Paris and Frankfurt were normally at least 70% full, but BA has pulled off both these routes, citing competition from Eurostar. Now that the Eurostar terminal has moved to St Pancras and the number of stopping services at Ashford has been cut, this arguement no longer holds water.

It is impossible to plan on using Gatwick to go to Geneva, as the service varies between nil per day to three per day, at wildly fluctuating times. It is little wonder that that passengers shun the service. It is the classic ploy, used by Government as well, when they wish to cut some service or other. Make it so difficult to use the service that people go elsewere and then cut the service citing lack of demand. BA at the moment schedules what services it does offer out of Gatwick round A/C availability and avoiding crews overnighting, not passenger convenience.

The Government lets BA get away with this, despite their avowed wish to cut carbon emissions. There must be many, like myself, in the SE, who drive past Gatwick, faced with another 40 miles to LHR. The cost in carbon, wasted time and conjestion on the M25 doesn't bare thinking about.

I would welcome a new owner at Gatwick, especially one who persuaded or forced the airlines to offer services that passengers wanted, at a time passengers wanted.

Sorry to interupt a serious thread but I can´t get over the photo on the right hand side of the article headed:

"WHAT MAG OWNS"..... looks like a bus stop is about all :\

More to it than being forced to sell one of the airports
 

This is just a general comment on the situation; I haven't kept up to date on the proposal to force BAA to sell off one or more of the three London Airports, only what I have read briefly here and seen on sky news.

Does it not defeat the purpose somewhat to allow the second biggest consortium in the UK (MAG) to take over one of the capital’s main airports. I understand that BAA has complete domination over London’s airports, however, is it in the best interests of passengers to allow the second biggest airport consortium in the country to take over Gatwick. Will it open up the services to allow passengers access to the destinations they want or will they operate services there and favour their existing airports like Manchester. MAG will have considerable investment in Gatwick and it will be in their best interests to make it profitable.

BAA owns Gatwick and has close links with BA and a long running relationship. Can MAG really make a difference in Gatwick, they can't force BA to fly out of Gatwick and why would BA bring more destination to Gatwick and jeopardise their well established Heathrow operations.

The situation in London's airports is more than simply BAA dominating the airports and how they are run. There is also the National airline and its long established links with BAA and Heathrow in particular. With the planned new runway at Heathrow it’s difficult to see how BA will move or greatly expand any of its operations in Gatwick. If it does what’s to say it doesn't just do it in the interim until the new runway has been completed at Heathrow. Should the government not look at how the three airports could be utilised together in a structured manner rather than building more and more at Heathrow.

Forcing BAA to sell off one or more of London’s airports is a good idea but I think it needs to be planned very carefully.