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Just hope nothing breaks with MAEL not working tomorrow!
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Is there any public transport from Luton airport to Luton town centre on the 26th of December?
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Yes but it is a Sunday timetable for Boxing Day with the first bus leaving the airport at 8:40. |
It seems Luton has more passenger movements today than Stansted thanks to Wizz. It must be many years since that happened. Just stating a fact so no silly comments please.
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Without Wizz there would have been only 2 arrivals today excluding biz jets which would have been down on last year. No El-Al I noticed as well.
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Originally Posted by Lee Baker Street
(Post 10343434)
Firstly wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and happy new year. LTNMan, whilst Monarch Aircraft Engineering continue to flourish, having succeeded 50 years of excellent aircraft engineering, the name Monarch will be a name to be seen at its spiritual home at LTN for decades to come. I like to think that one day the Monarch livery will one day take to the skies once more. |
Ho Ho...Merry Christmas to one & all...
And only as you mention it & only for the record Santa due to deliver the following arrivals for STN on Christmas Day.. 3 x PGT 1 x KKK 1 x UAE 1 x MLD 1 x TOM 1 x LDM 3 x EWG + GTI B748F on the regular Huntsville. A nice varied little bunch. |
Quantity or quality, let’s call it a draw at this special time of the year. Merry Xmas everyone.
Better not mention Luton's biz jets today. ho ho ho |
Have you done any movements comparisons to Gatwick for the morning?
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No.....nor Heathrow/Birmingham/Manchester. Why have you ?
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Seems to be a bumper day this year in terms of passenger movements - WZZ seem to be operating around 30 departures with the odd one from VLG/TOM. Why these flights need to operate today I’ve no idea. |
Nice quiet day to travel. Also a lot of people are not particularly religious or have another faith other than Christianity.
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Anyone at Luton today who can give a comment on Wizz's passenger numbers today ? Healthy loads leading to a likely repeat of flights on 25-Dec-2019 or are the aircraft all half empty ?
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The issue for Wizz is that they can only use the stands vacated by Wizz based aircraft and the TUI departure so limiting potential services. |
Originally Posted by Dannyboy39
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Seems to be a bumper day this year in terms of passenger movements - WZZ seem to be operating around 30 departures with the odd one from VLG/TOM. Why these flights need to operate today I’ve no idea. |
Rumour has it from one of the ground handling companies that the Xmas day Wizz flights were initially loaded by mistake into the booking system! Apparently a lot of the crews who were subsequently rostered for the 25th were not impressed!
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But only by enough to allow for the stands vacated by Wizz based aircraft. On a normal day Wizz needs to use the stands vacated by the first wave of Easyjet departures so makes the story seem unlikely. |
Considering that Wizz had a considerable flying programme beside flights to/from UK as LTNman says the rumour seems very unlikely.
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As MAEL were not working and Storm had to come up from Gatwick to cover, was the rumour from an already unhappy MAEL ground crew member?
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No not from MAEL.....
Considering Wizz is now MAEL's primary source of work for the based Line Engineers, surely the program would have been supported by them on Xmas day if it had been correctly planned in advance! |
Originally Posted by boeing_eng
(Post 10345198)
No not from MAEL.....
Considering Wizz is now MAEL's primary source of work for the based Line Engineers, surely the program would have been supported by them on Xmas day if it had been correctly planned in advance! |
Originally Posted by pabely
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A question for Management, just because Monarch Airline is no longer with us, it doesn't mean other supporting work isn't. Did they never ask their now biggest Line customer?
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It was announced a few months ago Ryanair was expanding at Luton with two extra aircraft, has that expansion already taken effect and in operation?
Just looking at Ryanair to book a cheap winter getaway and noticed all the routes are now operating. I thought the expansion and new routes like Athens and Barcelona were not starting until April or May time?! |
Originally Posted by gilesdavies
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It was announced a few months ago Ryanair was expanding at Luton with two extra aircraft, has that expansion already taken effect and in operation?
Just looking at Ryanair to book a cheap winter getaway and noticed all the routes are now operating. I thought the expansion and new routes like Athens and Barcelona were not starting until April or May time?! |
Two Multistory Car Park cores taking shape, a lot of steel work arrived and earth being dug out next to fire-station for DART, things should move quickly now..........
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The first batch of steelwork for the second multistory arrived just before Christmas.
I have heard that Easyjet will be going self handling after being somewhat disappointed with Menzies Wizz had a bad experience with Azzurra when most of their baggage handlers stayed at home on Christmas Day |
Just noticed, is stand 23R now connected to taxiway Delta, should aid shunting around Biz? Also Taxiway Echo is taking shape.
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Also Taxiway Echo is taking shape |
Originally Posted by 22/04
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Should this be foxtrot.
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Originally Posted by pabely
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Just noticed, is stand 23R now connected to taxiway Delta.
Taxiway Hotel is already in use and sits between B1 and C1 and is the original B1 exit before the taxiway extension. |
If you look out from roof of mutistorey then it looks like fresh concrete. I know where Hotel is, why no Foxtrot?
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Think you will find that fresh concrete is the extensions to either end of the South Stands that was completed a year or so ago that added 2 new stands. I also think a narrow strip of grass still separates Taxiway Delta from the South Stands but I will check it. From memory taxiway Foxtrot is the parallel taxiway to Delta that is under construction. Taxiway Golf will replace holding point A1 which will be moved to the taxiway extension at the 26 end that has yet to be built. Going back to the parallel taxiway Foxtrot, there will be a second connection to Delta half way along it so will that short link become taxiway Juliet? Not sure if the letter i is used for taxiways. Just as a side note holding point F1 already exists which is the entrance to the Harrods hangar apron so will that be numbered K1? |
Roger all that, I think!!!
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MAEL
Being reported that the Line Maintenance arm has been sold today, fingers crossed for all employees.
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Nothing like overselling your car parking by an alleged 10% over Christmas, and then telling irate folk who turn up having paid on line, that Slip End is not far!
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MAEL
Have gone into administration as of today, no more base (hangar) maintenance, but the Training Dept and the CAMO are going to continue to trade under administration, while a buyer is found. :{
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A great shame...Unfortunately it did not take long for the Greybull ownership to take effect & the breaking up of assets commencing it appears.
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I can’t think of an older Ltn based company which was around for over 50 years. This could be an opportunity for Gulfstream to expand at Luton as they were looking for new hangars last year. |
Staff meeting at 9am |
Good luck to all at MAEL....a very sad situation and a great loss to the industry if a buyer cannot be found. Its clear that the debts and financial mess created by Greybull have dragged down this operation which was always profitable! The Line operation has/will transfer to Storm Aviation
Gulfstream have already confirmed they will move to Farnborough within the next couple of years |
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