Hawarden - Fuel and Go
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Hawarden - Fuel and Go
With the new Beechcraft service centre racking up masses of new maintenance business does anybody think there is mileage in using Hawarden as a fuel stop for executive traffic - Europe /USA ?
I understand that the runway is plus 6300ft and runway hours of operation are not too bad either.
With a major exec service centre on-site, would this be much more cost effective than using Liverpool or Manchester.
I understand that the runway is plus 6300ft and runway hours of operation are not too bad either.
With a major exec service centre on-site, would this be much more cost effective than using Liverpool or Manchester.
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Hawarden - Fuel and Go ...
Our experience was the opening hours and fire cover.
0800 - 1900 local weekdays and 0930 - 1600 weekends
Can hardly ever operate 'out of hours' plus fire cover seems to be a real issue - Airbus who own the airfield just about scrape Cat 4 midweek and Cat 2 at weekend and won't allow reduction of fire cat - rumour has it, not even for the based operators (C550B; Citation X, Falcon 2000 - what a nightmare ?!)
We found it was more trouble than it was worth ... and not much £ to be saved either.
0800 - 1900 local weekdays and 0930 - 1600 weekends
Can hardly ever operate 'out of hours' plus fire cover seems to be a real issue - Airbus who own the airfield just about scrape Cat 4 midweek and Cat 2 at weekend and won't allow reduction of fire cat - rumour has it, not even for the based operators (C550B; Citation X, Falcon 2000 - what a nightmare ?!)
We found it was more trouble than it was worth ... and not much £ to be saved either.
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Harwarden (or HARDON as some people call it) is really a non starter for transatantic ops. Hours are not flex, CIS is hard put to work, comms are pretty naf, Go to LPL or MAN for that part of the world.
