By: mongu - 17th February 2002 at 22:04
RE: Airports!
How about fave international airports?
My vote is JNB – if you go to the right place, the views are fantastic. Also, try LGW if you can stay at Le Meridien hotel – quite close to the action.
By: mj2292 - 17th February 2002 at 18:46
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I call MAN. I live only 20mins away and can get up there quite often. Dont think i could have an airside pass, but the spotting areas are good as well as terminal views, from T1 anyway. I will help with this project if you still need it.
Regards,
MIK€.
By: carl727 - 16th February 2002 at 14:39
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My nearest airport is Liverpool, and its fab now, has a great new terminal. To see aircraft Im not sure yet as its not all fully open yet, however I know where to got to get good views anyway
By: rdc1000 - 15th February 2002 at 17:19
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I know you said UK airports but I think having mbeen through some amaxing airports (particularly in the middle east where they really know how to DO airports!!!!) then I’m not overly impressed with any UK airport. We need to learn a thing or two about airports and terminals from our foreign counterparts, lets wait to see what T5 will offer.
I guess if I had to though I would probably have to say Manchester is quite high up my list
By: EGNM - 15th February 2002 at 11:49
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I’ll do NM for you – might b after the weekend tho
By: V1 - 15th February 2002 at 00:34
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Coventry is an interesting airport – I’m going up there this weekend armed with my new digital camera….
By: andrewm - 14th February 2002 at 20:26
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Yeah Dan that would be gud.
Here it is, please if you are intertested contact me as this is the gerneral idea below:
Here are some ideas for articles:
History of Airport
Charter Operators
Scheduled Operators
Major Changes in past and future
Facilites
Does it have good facilites for ‘Spotters’
Thanks every1!!!
Andrew M
andrew_mcquillan@hotmail.com
By: dan330 - 14th February 2002 at 19:18
RE: Airports!
I’ll be interested in writing a report for EMA. Already got a few pics so it shouldn’t be a problem.
What do you have in mind? A general report on the airport, operators, facilities etc or one more from an enthusiasts point of view?
By: Comet - 14th February 2002 at 10:37
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I live on the North Yorkshire coast, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. The area is rural, and the nearest town of any size, though with crap shops, is Scarborough.
By: shauny2k1 - 12th February 2002 at 19:45
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Where abouts are you from comet???
I live i near to Hull.
Shaun
By: V1 - 12th February 2002 at 19:31
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As I only live a couple of miles from it, BHX is my personal preference. Manchester is nice, but is 79 miles too far away!
RE BA Concorde fleet: They’ll be doing x1 daily LHR-JFK for a while yet. Double daily is expected in the Summer – Barbados is being discussed, but the sub-charters such as the ones that used to fly into the UK regional airports look as though they’ve got the chop – too expensive. Considering BA’s current financial situation, this is hardly surprising. G-BOAD has just re-entered service though.
By: EGNM - 11th February 2002 at 10:56
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How about the Hawks at BAe Brough?
By: Comet - 11th February 2002 at 08:55
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I’m not “near” any airport, pretty much stuck out on a limb where I live (literally).
To the south there is Humberside. To the north there is Teesside. To the west there is Leeds/Bradford.
But none are really near enough for me to visit regularly.
By: Benair316P - 11th February 2002 at 01:24
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Thats a good idea. I’m up for it.
Andrew M….How did u go about getting that airside pass?
Regards
Benair
By: EGNM - 10th February 2002 at 22:34
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I’d do that – i started to build an enthusiasts website but lack of co-operating from institutes presented great difficulty on getting accurate infomation, but if this ended up with the airport gaining they could be persuaded to change their minds!!
By: andrewm - 10th February 2002 at 22:27
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Thanks for the posts. My idea is that we all take pictures and write a short report on our local airport(s). I have already got an airside access pass to my local, Belfats City and last thursday night i went down. I got some pictures of some nice planes with me sitting i the cockpit!!
Anyways, let me know if you want to do this, as there is a publisher who might like to print them!!
Andrew M
By: EGNM - 10th February 2002 at 19:29
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As my sign in name suggests Leeds/Bradford is mine – BA only stopped the charters as they were running up valuable cycles on the airframe and these routes weren’t as profitable as the likes of JFK
By: shauny2k1 - 9th February 2002 at 08:37
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I have 3 airoprts which are about the same distance away, these are:
* Humberside
* Leeds / Bradford
* Sheffield
But my favourate has to be East Midlands.
Shaun
By: Rabie - 9th February 2002 at 00:23
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-02-02 AT 00:26 AM (GMT)]i went and saw it at manston, and cos its not a big airport your right up close to it.
great !!!
rabie :9
By: dan330 - 8th February 2002 at 23:00
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BA Concordes.
I think they are running as usual and there are no plans to stop. They are starting Barbados again around April I think. (Saturday weekly flight). Don’t know if they have any plans for the experience charter flights, although I suppose thats down to the travel companies (was it “David Goodwin travel” that offered the flights?) as much as BA.
It would be great to see Concorde at our regional airports again!
I want to be by the new runway at MAN when Concorde goes up! (you can get very close to the aircraft)
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