new entry for “Colemanballs”

“Footballistically”. As uttered by no less a person than Arsene Wenger, Arsenal Manager, describing Beckham in answer to the question “is he finished”.

Joins:

“Bouncebackability” (Ian Dowie)
“Dragbackflick” (Ron Atkinson, describing an indescribable piece of skill – not Becks, obviously).

Proves no matter how “cultured” you are, football still proves that the “boys done good”…:rolleyes:

I do my best! 😉

Remember the name:

TIM YEO (conservative; small “c”).

Thon Bell 214’s seen better days!

Nice pics Robert. 🙂

That Italian Hawker 800 has been a few times down the years, but I’ve never managed to get a Cornetto off it yet!

Alas for BA they are worst affected being the No.1 carrier at LHR.

Now if they were still flying the REGIONS :rolleyes: maybe they wouldn’t have as much disruption than they do now by putting all eggs in the LHR basket.

(OK I’m winding you up!!)

BA will always concentrate on long haul in adverse weather at LHR, or where ATC places restrictions on movements for whatever reason, to the expense of domestic short haul especially.

Not so bad (relatively!) for the likes of MAN, EDI or GLA where there are alternatives.

For my area, ABZ is much more adversely affected given its location. It’s a LOOOOOONG to come by train/road, & air travel is most popular for the business passenger especially. It’s made all the worse by it being the busiest time of year up here plus business is booming anyway, if you look at the increases in pax at ABZ.

Would say:

i. Fog, as a number of T3 flights have been affected;

ii. T3 probably also winding down for Xmas/New Year. They always operate a skeleton service over holiday periods.

Given their fares & target market, I would be shocked indeed if T3 were in any trouble.

F O G ?

It will be interesting to see when the final draft of the Masterplan is out, which should be imminent now the runway extension has been approved, whether there are any amendments compared to the outline Plan currently shown.

Given the continual strong growth at ABZ, you would have thought that the BAA would give some thought to upgrading some other badly-needed aspects, eg. more stands, parking areas for aircraft, expanding the terminal (eg. MORE than one carousel please :rolleyes: ) & so on.

Interesting they are also talking about enlarging the cargo area, but I would have thought that area could be needed for terminal expansion, & that the cargo area would have to be rehoused – but where?

Also if Trump’s dream becomes reality & he gets his golf complex (which i hope he does) then potentially many more businessmen/tourists could arrive.

I wonder whether BAA has in fact underestimated what has happened at ABZ up to now, & could happen in future.