Bmi diversion to Belfast International
 

Bmi diverted earlier to BFS from LHR. Does anyone know if it was A320/19/ EMBRAER?

Thanks
EI-BUD

pea soup!
 

sorry no idea . thick fog! could not even see the oval at end of street! JESUS sign was not to be seen.

I thought JESUS could be seen everywhere?

2 x A319s in this evening BUD if it's important

A319s
 

The BD088 and BD090 both diverted into BFS. I was on the BD090. Both A319s.
The captain advised that BHD was below limits for a "manual" landing so to make sure people got to "Belfast" we would be diverting to BFS for an "automatic" landing.
We were coached back to BHD. There was no fog when we arrived back at BHD. A Flybe Dash was landing as our coach pulled into the carpark.

Was on the BD92 last night, also A319 and arrived into BHD fine thank goodness! Was panicking when checked BHD departures on my phone on way to LHR and found the outbound BD91 cancelled. Thought the worst, but as you said operated out from BFS. The flight surprised me how busy it was for a Saturday night. Economy was pretty much full, though many seemed to be connecting from long haul.

On the point of using mobiles for getting airport information, the new BFS website doesn't display arrival / departures information on my blackberry!! Not terribly useful...

BHD is only a Cat 1 airfield(no autoland manual landings only)Runway visual range was 300 meters. The BD88 slowed down from before IOM hoping for an improvement but no change upon reaching Magee once round the hold then a CAT 3 AUTOLAND ON 25 bfs PAX BUSED TO BHD, Aircraft positioned back to LHR to operate the BD92 which arrived early.:)

What happened to the CO Newark flight today. It was on the radio travel this morning as delayed until 12.30, yet it's cancelled on the website?

Anything on MAN/BHX yet? A good opportunity for RE.

Bad weather.

Does anyone have a sneaky suspicion that Abertis is gearing up to sell BFS ?

Rumours have been circulation that Albertis are going to sell CWL as well. A company specialising in Spanish toll roads was never going to do well at airport management!

Would be good news if they did! But where has this sneaky suspicion come from. People in CWL will be ecstatic if this is true after the appalling decline of traffic there. Perhaps when they're sold Ryanair will open a celebratory Belfast-Cardiff route?

It's just a feeling really, no rumours or anything like that. They are doing silly little things around the place, painting doors, replacing ceilings and the like, in some cases where passengers would not see. Resurfacing road surfaces here and there, again in non passenger areas. Again its only a feeling, no hard evidence, but I think they are going to sell.

I think a porfolio of recently announced routes would surely render the facility more attractive!!!!

There was talk of CVC putting a bid in for Abertis sometime in January 2011, which is almost over.. in an hour to be precise.

Patching up road surfaces? Not that i have seen, some potholes are now sinkholes on the airside roads...25/07 has had the bumpy area around Bravo patched up, no full resurfacing for the foreseeable future anyway.. If Abertis was planning to hold onto BFS in the long term then they probably would have spent the money now to do it, instead of waiting for it to get worse and for the cost to increase even more, although in saying that it is Abertis.

Read this morning that EZY are recruiting 50 at BFS. They said it was a reflection due to a rise in passengers using them. 50 seems quite alot, is it in preparation for the summer timetable?

I think after last years crewing problems they are making sure they are prepared this year, as far as im aware its only seasonal work. So will be to cover the extra flights during summer.

airport66
 

Runway 25/07 to be resurfaced second half of this year thats for certain,the work will take approx 2 months maybe longer.

News to me, wonder if the cost has remained around the £30m mark, bet its left until the height of summer. Best part about it is the 50-100m area they done a repair on round Bravo has to be dug up and re-done when the full resurface is done.

victoria73
 

Thats correct the month of Nov was mentioned take roughly 2 months or more to complete.

Surely if they can spend £30million odd on the runway... they could spend a bit more else where!

They could even try to bribe the DRDNI by funding a Rail Halt. It doesn't even need to be a Station!

Although some people detest Airports turning into Shopping Centres with runways attached. I.E What BAA have been doing, I support it. After all it's what LCC have made airports resort to insearch of profit. The problem is, shopping at Belfast is pityful. They've completely irradicated the ability to eat outside departures. Think off all those who come and drop people of and wait a while until there friends/family have to go through departures. Where can they eat or drink or relax together... no where! Totally lost income. Inside departures, I think there could be more. The Irish Quarter has a good amount of extorinate priced goods, which I had to fork out for, for friends in England. But there should be more.

There's so much avenues for extra revenue. Sometimes I wish I had Conor Murphys inviable job!