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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Aug 2009, 18:19
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Howard Holdings plc has been wound up in the high...

Howard Holdings plc has been wound up in the high court of justice, chancery division. 22 July 2009

Coventry Airport is wholly owned by Howard Holdings plc

Looks like they failed to find anyone...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
7th Nov 2008, 19:44
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Airport fight for a new terminal still on as...

Airport fight for a new terminal still on as lawyers go for appeal (http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/Airport-fight-for-a-new.4667491.jp)
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
20th Oct 2008, 21:44
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Your version is not entirely accurate either. If...

Your version is not entirely accurate either. If you take a look at the southern end of the runway on say Google Earth you will see the turning circle and the (now mostly erased) white paint arrow...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Oct 2008, 18:50
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

I'd hardly call managing coventry airport from...

I'd hardly call managing coventry airport from 700,000 passengers down to zero, the highlight of his glittering career.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
16th Oct 2008, 18:34
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Of course theres a demand at the right price, but...

Of course theres a demand at the right price, but finding 2000 passengers a day prepared to pay enough to make thomsonfly a profit is another question again

(incidentally that 700,000 passengers ...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Oct 2008, 19:41
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Ah, so you've seen the lease have you? ...

Ah, so you've seen the lease have you?

...anyway as Alvechurch says... Cov CC will need a development partner to realise the value of the land, who better than HH?
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Oct 2008, 18:23
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Since the airport's owners are property...

Since the airport's owners are property developers, perhaps that gives the clue as to what 'goals' they will 'focus on' and where they think the 'bright future' is

Coventry Airport is wholly owned...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
10th Oct 2008, 08:50
Replies: 109
Views: 21,316
Posted By twostroke

Indeed, as they say, those with the 'get up and...

Indeed, as they say, those with the 'get up and go', get up and go
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
10th Oct 2008, 08:25
Replies: 1,158
Views: 267,345
Posted By twostroke

Sounds pretty easy to me. Saying your going to...

Sounds pretty easy to me. Saying your going to make an announcement and then not doing it is just plain lazy/sloppy/incompetent. Any sort of 'holding' announcement would have done..'ongoing technical...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
6th Oct 2008, 21:54
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

CVT already has Planning Permission for its...

CVT already has Planning Permission for its 1million passengers /yr terminal, and has singularly failed to attract operators to use even half of its allocation. I would suggest that the issue is...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
30th Jul 2008, 11:00
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

This is surely where coventry should be...

This is surely where coventry should be concentrating their efforts: consolidating what they have and trying to use its capacity, and making it pay. I suspect they would nt have a problem getting...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
11th Jul 2008, 22:58
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

One single flight a week to each of Zante,...

One single flight a week to each of Zante, Monastir, Mahon and Corfu. Dont get too excited..:rolleyes:
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
3rd May 2008, 21:16
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Because fairly obviously, profit per flight =...

Because fairly obviously, profit per flight = (number of fare paying passengers)x (margin per passenger)

Its all very well Wizz being 90% full or whatever but if they're only making a £ or 2 on...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
25th Apr 2008, 12:18
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Hard to see (whatever the load factors) how an...

Hard to see (whatever the load factors) how an airport with only 3 or 4 passenger flights a day can cover its overheads for long without continuing to lose its owners vast amounts of money. I suspect...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
8th Jun 2006, 20:58
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Obviously the 'threat' posed goes up with...

Obviously the 'threat' posed goes up with increased movement numbers. ATM's or otherwise.

I still think my theory on page 1 of this thread is not so wacky - creating large numbers of nearly no...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
1st May 2006, 17:16
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Arbottle, If catchment area is the poulation in...

Arbottle, If catchment area is the poulation in the area within say a 1 hour journey time, then birmingham's catchment is far far bigger than than coventry's, I would have thought

JA - CVT failed...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
8th Apr 2006, 11:41
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

From Leamington Courier: Coventry Airport has...

From Leamington Courier:
Coventry Airport has been found to have acted unlawfully in building its Thomsonfly terminal - but it will be allowed to stay.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott made the...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
2nd Apr 2006, 17:57
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Another airprox to add to the Coventry/thomsonfly...

Another airprox to add to the Coventry/thomsonfly collection. Has the airspace around Coventry really has had the safety margins reduced?
Date: 21 March 2006
An Aircraft Proximity (Airprox) report...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
24th Mar 2006, 22:27
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

The story was in yesterdays 'harborough today'....

The story was in yesterdays 'harborough today'. (so must be true..:) )
http://www.harboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=760&ArticleID=1396635
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
24th Mar 2006, 07:25
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Not another coventry airprox surely...:uhoh: ...

Not another coventry airprox surely...:uhoh:
THE Civil Aviation Authority is investigating why an airline pilot had to take evasive action to avoid hitting a glider flying above Lutterworth.
The...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
26th Feb 2006, 10:58
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

bundybear I never said I was... :) It was...

bundybear
I never said I was... :)
It was really a question about statistics and why there have been such a cluster of incidents reported.
If they are all highly competent pilots (Ive not the...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Feb 2006, 20:35
Replies: 2,518
Views: 697,141
Posted By twostroke

Would I be right thinking Coventry pilots have...

Would I be right thinking Coventry pilots have been trying hard to create reasons to get the airspace 'controlled', by registering lots of airproxes?
5 airproxes in a year is 6 or 7% of the national...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Oct 2005, 11:19
Replies: 13
Views: 2,157
Posted By twostroke

Correct me if i'm wrong, but birmingham's...

Correct me if i'm wrong, but birmingham's proposed second 'short' runway is proposed at 2000m, a practical versatile length to achieve european destinations. From memory, Coventry is restricted to...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
2nd Jun 2005, 21:41
Replies: 30
Views: 8,793
Posted By twostroke

Any more info on the 'incident'?

Any more info on the 'incident'?
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
11th Mar 2005, 17:04
Replies: 20
Views: 4,552
Posted By twostroke

BMIBaby, since you ask... Thomsonfly load...

BMIBaby, since you ask...
Thomsonfly load factors 50% average at Coventry, Nov, Dec and Jan
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
2nd Feb 2005, 12:06
Replies: 7
Views: 1,605
Posted By twostroke

Devil jabird Not connected with TUI? Perhaps you'd...

jabird
Not connected with TUI?
Perhaps you'd like to deny you receive income from thomsonfly.com
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Sep 2004, 07:33
Replies: 37
Views: 4,980
Posted By twostroke

Arbottle, Yorky etc. Not only are you...

Arbottle, Yorky etc.

Not only are you ignorant of the facts, but you persist in being ignorant, by recycling your tired old arguments. The application was refused on five major grounds as well as...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Sep 2004, 09:49
Replies: 37
Views: 4,980
Posted By twostroke

niknak daysleeper and behappy. You appear to...

niknak daysleeper and behappy.

You appear to unaware of some facts, so let me enlighten you.

The Highways Agency's Direction to refuse on traffic grounds was just one of many grounds of...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
21st Jul 2004, 12:37
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

Had it confirmed to me today that Cov Airport...

Had it confirmed to me today that Cov Airport have appealed the enforcement notice on grounds (a) that planning permission should be granted for what is alleged in the enforcement notice. This is...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
14th Jul 2004, 11:54
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

warkman We will have to differ on this....

warkman

We will have to differ on this. Personally I believe very little of what comes out of Bill Savages mouth.



It is a matter of fact that if a development requires an ES it is not...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
11th Jul 2004, 19:57
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

daysleeper- They have to apply for planning...

daysleeper-
They have to apply for planning permission for it to be granted. And the terminal has no planning permission so why would they grant permission for a carpark?

If WDC have the balls,...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jul 2004, 15:38
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

Bundy bear- Its Warwick District Council...

Bundy bear-
Its Warwick District Council actually, not Coventry City council.

And its Cov Airport themselves who appealed to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. And its ODPM who have now...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jul 2004, 10:12
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

Boring? Well, if you think that the deputy...

Boring?

Well, if you think that the deputy prime minister's office telling one of the largest travel groups in europe that they have built and operated a passenger terminal without planning...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jul 2004, 07:39
Replies: 15
Views: 2,664
Posted By twostroke

Coventry Airport unauthorised development (told you so)

According to a Warwick District Council Press release:

The independent Planning Inspectorate, on behalf of The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), has confirmed that the Temporary Terminal...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
28th Jun 2004, 12:11
Replies: 55
Views: 6,692
Posted By twostroke

Toytown airport run by bullies.

Coventry Toytown airport


"the Dakota Diner inside a cargo shed serves instant coffee and pre-packed sandwiches":eek:


guardian story...
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