Which is your favourite UK Airport?
(The Award thing is one i made up but still a good topic!)
The predictions are:
Saab 2000 will say Jersey or Gurnsey 🙂
I will say Belfast City
And the rest of you will pick an airport in England or Scotland!
By: carl727 - 20th January 2002 at 22:30
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I quite like London City and Stansted. We have a new terminal now at Liverpool so i will have to wait to see what its like when i go to Amsterdam later on in the year.
By: Dutchy - 18th January 2002 at 10:03
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I’ve only been too Luton Airport and I hated it, the cold atmosphere the unfriendliness of the people, the architecture etc. I felt like cattle even before getting into the plane. It’s a bit of a downturn of another very nice weekend in Oxford. Hope to visit a decent English airport soon.
JW
By: EGNM - 16th January 2002 at 15:13
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Well i would say NM as my Local (Leeds/Bradford), but for the real heavy metal on a constant basis EGCC purely for it’s viewing facilities!!
Preston
By: Newcastle757 - 16th January 2002 at 12:19
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Newcastle obviously.
A decent mix of traffic, great,friendly staff to help you with your enquiries and an extremly modern terminal (both dmestic and international).
By: V1 - 11th January 2002 at 17:47
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My vote goes to Birmingham…
….It may not be a haven for dozens of big wide bodied aircraft like Heathrow is, but BHX offers scheduled services to all over Europe, as well as long haul flights to New York, Dubai, Tashkent and Delhi. Plus American will be returning the daily Chicago service from April.
On the European network, BA and Maersk Air UK dominate the Eurohub terminal with their fleet of A319’s, 737’s and CRJ200/700’s. British European also offers an impressive network from BHX.
The choice of holiday destinations makes BHX the 3rd busiest airport in the UK for charter flights, after Gatwick and Manchester. The likes of Airtours/MyTravel, Air 2000, Britannia, JMC and Monarch all have bases here.
As for the terminal buildings – They are excellent. Eurohub is the first hub and spoke concept terminal in Europe and is very modern, with ten airbridges. Main Terminal is very modern, having a recent major facelift. But the best part of the terminal area is the new Millenium Link – This building links the two terminals together making the airport all under one roof.
BHX handles 7.6 million passengers a year and is the 5th busiest airport in the UK. I have flown from here many times and it is so much easier than flying from the London airports…
By: Comet - 11th January 2002 at 13:49
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For sheer variety I have to say Heathrow, my favourite airport overall. Manchester is excellent for video and photography from the departure lounge, but the spectator’s area on the car park is poor for video, as you have to point the lens through the wire and keep adjusting focus, which is tedious when you’re tracking a particular aircraft. Manchester also has an excellent restaurant in T1, the Lancaster Brasserie, which offers a good view of the apron area and to some extent landings and departures and the food is good. That is its only advantage over Heathrow.
Fly with proper Belgian airlines.
By: Saab 2000 - 9th January 2002 at 19:25
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Yup Andrew i will say Guernsey! :7 Jersey Airport is to modern for what the island needed.Now Guernsey Airport,thats a different story,the terminal is small but it has good facilities;a cafe serving home made food,not many airports have that now!,a duty free shop,bookplus and a florists.The staff are very friendly and are helpful.But the best thing of all is that ther are great viewing areas,the cafe is at ground level and from here you are nice and close to the apron which is good for photos and getting registrations.
By: dan330 - 9th January 2002 at 19:02
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Its hard to choose between Birmingham and Manchester.
Birmingham has had a lot of new development over the past few years and looks fantastic now, even the new car park looks good.
Manchester has always been a nice airport and T2 is excellent to fly from.
I think I’d have to give my vote to Birmingham though, a very modern airport and future developments that are planned should make it even better!
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January 9, 2002 at 11:11 am