The term for the Serviceair ground equipment if you were to sell it would be "shabby chic" lol, rumour has it they buy all their good stuff from Albert Looms........

Can the Hire Car pickup area either be given a covered walkway from the terminal or could EMA be relocated to a dryer part of Europe?

The latter is the preferred solution but Option 1 would be a start for us poor visitors!

Buy a brolley!:}

Royal Mail
 

Just been reading the newcastle forum and there looks like the royal mail are starting an extra route by the end of the year, any details on where? i guess somehere in the UK, maybe the south-west, or Ireland? Also theres an aircraft for stansted royal mail ops if the newcastle forum is correct.

New Royal Mail Base
 

Owenkirk 2005
Here in Ireland we have our own postal network, An Post and have nothing to do with Royal Mail besides exhanging international post like we do with other Mail networks around the world, so I really cannot see why you think they would be setting up a new air route to here?

Owen - The Newcastle thread refers to an extra mail flight starting end March from NCL to East Midlands, the stansted part was talking about our present mail flight not from EMA!

UKIA's first 767 should be arriving in EMA 10th March now. Anyone heard how preperations are going in Brunei?
Also, all Ryanairs new flights should all be up n running by 27th. Is there any other exciting prospects for EMA this year? additional long haul from First Choice or are we going to have to wait for the 787's to join the fleet?
having flown out the airport 2 weeks ago for the first time in quite a while, just wondered where the access to the new pier will be from? is it out from upstairs or going to be access from the last gate? I will be heading back out to Malaysia soon so trying to learn as much as poss
Regards
Stu

UPS

And it will no doubt sit there for a while as the booking engine doesn't show any flight availability.

The problem, if you want to call it a problem, with the Servisair branding is that we have changed our branding three times over a very short space of time. The company has been "Servisair," "Servisair GlobeGround" and now "Penauille Servisair" all in a short time, all with different logos, liveries and uniforms. It seems the new branding for the Penauille Servisair GSE is simply white, with a small logo placed somewhere on it. The other type I have seen, is the new branding on our Penauille Servisair Cargo lorries, which I've heard might be extended to all ground equipment. They are a navy blue, with a close up visual of the Servisair globe in white and the Penauille Servisair type face along the side. The company is going for more standardisation and making the company more competitive under the fairly new CEO, so we shall hopefully see us moving away from this "Circusair" image.

With reference to the covered walkway to hire car - car park - I agree -
But you could always buy a plaggy bag from the airport terminal and stick that over your head!!
(could make a rainhat out of them - they're only 50p ... and you get 2!!):E

I challenge nEMA to send the profits of this scam to charity!!

btw flew with baby the other day again to Scotland and the service on board as ever very good - (more personable than FR)
usually helps when the crew are ex BM- bring home the baby!!:D

why is it a scam to have a vending machine providing something that most people should know is required and have the oportunity to bring, but which some will forget? should the airport also provide toothpaste if you forget it?

the bags have to be within the dimensions set out by the DFT. I'm sure most people won't have them at home.

I think that an airport charging for a pastic bag is shocking.

Quite right easyb - a box of plaggy bags doesn't cost a great deal compared to the amount Joe Bloggs spends at the airport!! Just a gesture thats all we want- (if not- instead of charging - just steal a load from Tesco's or Sainsbury's - there free there!)

On a positive note - security staff also always more personable and efficent compared those down the M42 - not such a chore. Keep it up.:ok:

OK then-why is it the airports job to provide these free of charge? we did not put the restrictions in place-perhaps the Airlines would like to take this on? or the handling agents?- like luggage labels-no thought not, passengers pay less and less to use the facilities to depart, less and less to fly, and you are complaining about a 50p charge to obtain something should you have need-its not compulsory, unlike liverpools departure 'Tax'

Yes, perhaps the Airline or the Handling Agents should provide these small plastic bags, but regardless of who deals with them - there should be no charge for a DFT regulation.

If anybody should be covering the cost of these then it should be down to the DFT directly, and not the Airports etc.

Sorry AP I agree with easyboy and blue on this.
Maybe it's not the provision of the bags, but the cost.
50p for 2 plastic bags is a little OTT.
Good to see work coming on well for the pier.

Why don't G4S provide them, after all they are the ones enforcing the rules? The airport has sub-contracted the security to G4S so am suprised EMA provided them from the beginning!

Heard that raised walk way is now in place, any new pics??? Bin busy moving back to the warmth of Malaysia, and life within the busy cargo department of a classy company :hmm:

Funny you should mention that.

Almost P (aka David Bailey) was scuttling around the building and balcony this morning:

http://www.wheelerweb.org/images/nema/walkway_1.jpg

http://www.wheelerweb.org/images/nema/walkway_2.jpg

http://www.wheelerweb.org/images/nema/walkway_3.jpg

Thank you for the pictures. I've had all my handling agent interviews for this summer season, but those gates look like quite a long walk from the main terminal building. I'm already picturing people running frantically to those gates just in the nick of time before departure. Where is the entrance to that walkway? Is it upstairs? And will it be used by all airlines?