New FBO for Humberside..

Weston Aviation opens new FBO at Humberside International Airport on the 1st June 2011

Welcome news Im sure.

This is great news, there is currently no one on the aerodrome dealing with such business therefore Weston Aviation will be well placed to provide a first class service. They also provide regional business aviation development, well placed for the potential Humber Bank development(s). Some positive news for Humberside!

No they don't, they're just another charter operator and handling agent, no different from anyone else and don't necessarilly bring anything new or more to the airport that the likes of NetJets appointing Servisair as their nominated handling agent could.

Unless Westonair build a new dedicated large handling FBO facility, including hangerage, they offer nothing that isn't already available.

There perhaps isn't enough info released so far so its open to speculation, but what they do say is it will be creating jobs for local people, something not to be sniffed at.

Concur and I sincerely hope that you are right.

This quote was in the Northern Echo in respect of the DTVA operation, so maybe they will bring something new to the party?

Cracking piece of news, about time we heard something positive come out of Humberside. So much for the rumours that Humberside had a limited life span left.

Don't get me wrong this is good to hear, but I thought the guys over at Hangar 9 were looking to develop exec handling?

The awaited press release.

Airports Council International have HUY ranked as the UKs best and the Worlds 9th best for customer satisfaction.

Unexpected bit of news today, even for the airports spokesman on Radio Humberside today it seems.

Dont think it will be getting any awards for customer satisfaction at the moment with no hold baggage scanning facilities. This was after a visit from the DFT. Everything is having to be carried down to the same area where the hand baggage is scanned. Should be interesting with this if they are able to achieve the turnround times when th Ryan Air starts in a couple of weeks.

Yay. HUY are £1000 in the red already after their crap effort at getting RyanAir turned round in 25 minutes on Tuesday. A matter of 45 minutes later the plane took off again.

Must try harder, and get the refuelling done quicker or it could cost the airport a lot of money!

Tonto, where do you get this crap from? You surely know that the FR arrival was late dont you?? :rolleyes:

If an a/c is late, we try and go for a 20min turn around, But the airport will still get 25 mins before we dont pay for turn arounds

Achieving a 25 minute turnaround on most routes and on most LCCs is achievable. However, Ryanair have some very daft policies, at least at the airports i've worked at, which in our opinion are designed to put any delays down to various parts of the ground crews. e.g; PRMs can't be offloaded/boarded during refuelling, which can take around 20 minutes sometimes!!! That leaves you with 5 minutes to board/offload PRMs. Not to mention they insist if there is more than a certain number of PRMs that they are loaded at the front and back in equal numbers, a long process if you only have the availability of one ambulift....

Finally I would like to point out that HUY would not be the ones in the ''red'' as you say. It's the ground handling / fueller / ambulift etc who would be the ones in the ''red'' if a delay was put down to them...(should they not be able to prove otherwise). HUY would actually be better off as they would then be getting paid by ryanair as they have gone over their planned parking time.

Tonto, the tuesday flight was only that long turning around due to the shear number of PRM's that needed boarding! todays flight was much smoother due to fewer numbers requiring the Ambulift.
It does annoy most of us when the likes or youself try your best to badmouth the airport, but as with most minor irritations, we can easily ignore you

Well said Bob Marley this isn't the first time Tonto has been negative towards HUY.:D:D:D

Any more news on the Weston Aviation development being now under a month until the scheduled opening? Where precisely on the airfield will they be based?

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What a complete and utter feckin idiot:rolleyes:
If there's a better way of pissing off some of the MAG major shareholders I've yet to see it. To think such things or discuss them privately is one thing, to utter them publicly is commercial suicide.

I would suggest that the "UK's smaller airports" have a better chance of survival than Mr Bailey.

Mr Bailey speaks common sense.

Small airports with limited numbers of big aeroplanes have all the associated costs and little of the associated revenue. Just do the sums!

Low cost operators have changed the face of airports. May be good for the passengers but not good for the airports.