Lydd Questions
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Lydd Questions
Whilst having a jaunt down by the seaside, one decided to pop in to Lydd for a few moments. A pleasant surprise was a lovely 2 seater Spitfire on the Apron outside the terminal. A quick look at the various displays inside the terminal produced a few photos and wall charts showing the progress of the airports development and in this they said that the 1505m runway could handle A319 size aircraft etc, albeit with a payload/distance penalty, though there were photos of other large aircraft that might have landed in the past. So….do any charters or private large aircraft use Lydd, especially now that Manston has been confined to the developers greed ? There used to be Cruising charters into Manston for passengers starting/stopping at Dover, might they still land at Lydd and takeoff to a longer runway elsewhere to refuel ? The plan seems to be to go for a 1750m runway, but as to how that might go down with the locals i've no idea.
SHJ
SHJ
Whilst on a flight deck ride in an A320, I asked what minimum length of runway they needed. They looked in their ops manual and came up with a 'balanced field length' of 1,500m so yes an A319 could operate from Lydd. An A319 operates out of London City which is shorter than Lydd at 1,500m but used to be shorter still.
No 319's at LCY, only 318's in all Business Class config (BA JFK service).
An A320 (of Titan) was recently subbed by Aurigny for ops at GCI, which has a physical runway length of 1583m.
I believe a 733 (of Small Planet) ran some charters from LYX a few years ago.
An A320 (of Titan) was recently subbed by Aurigny for ops at GCI, which has a physical runway length of 1583m.
I believe a 733 (of Small Planet) ran some charters from LYX a few years ago.
Last edited by Wycombe; 15th May 2016 at 21:49. Reason: corrected operator of 733's into LYX
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Thanks all for the replies, yesterday a little bird told me that none other than Paul McCartney flew from Lydd to the US/Argentina for the rest of his World Tour in a FA7X. That's a fair old stretch from a 1500m runway, so perhaps there's a niche for Lydd with transiting biz jets now and in the future.
SHJ
SHJ
Macca flew into Lydd on 6th May from Minneapolis on one of Air Alsie's FA7Xs. Another of their Falcons appears to have called in there yesterday, presumably to take him to Córdoba to resume his tour, though obviously not non-stop (it departed west along UL9).
typo
It's his nearest runway, is it not?
QUOTE=DaveReidUK;9376302]aMacca flew into Lydd on 6th May from Minneapolis on one of Air Alsie's FA7Xs. Another of their Falcons appears to have called in there yesterday, presumably to take him to Córdoba to resume his tour, though obviously not non-stop (it departed west along UL9).[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=DaveReidUK;9376302]aMacca flew into Lydd on 6th May from Minneapolis on one of Air Alsie's FA7Xs. Another of their Falcons appears to have called in there yesterday, presumably to take him to Córdoba to resume his tour, though obviously not non-stop (it departed west along UL9).[/QUOTE]
It was very busy in 1959 when I attended school camp at an old Army camp at nearby St Marys Bay, with a flight seeming to depart about every 15 minutes.
I vaguely recall that Lydd was developed on the site of a former wartime ALG specifically as the 'closest' airfield to France for car freight operations eg Silver City.
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Looked on travel agents web page who operated flights with small planet airlines looks no flights from lydd this year a very big disappointment with situation at Manston and now lydd it seems another nail in the coffin for southeast airports
I vaguely recall that Lydd was developed on the site of a former wartime ALG specifically as the 'closest' airfield to France for car freight operations eg Silver City.
It was very busy in 1959 when I attended school camp at an old Army camp at nearby St Marys Bay, with a flight seeming to depart about every 15 minutes.
It was very busy in 1959 when I attended school camp at an old Army camp at nearby St Marys Bay, with a flight seeming to depart about every 15 minutes.
Last edited by WHBM; 21st May 2016 at 21:45.