black kettleIf you look at the fin it’s ZS-ATJ surely…..part of the underwing lettering is missing
Barry
black kettleVery!!….though if you’ve a steady hand you should have no problem at 1/125th or certainly 1/250th but weather is often against you.
I’m a real fan of Panasonic compacts and bridge cameras and still have a couple but I really don’t believe the GH series is best suited to our hobby.
Nothing against any of the others you list though I’d have thought a 50D would increase your budget massively.The 40d’s as good for what I do.
Your lens will be more important than the body to a large extent and 10mp camera is adequate IMHO
Tell us what you do,please
B
black kettleJust to add to the responses……..bridge cameras are great for static shots but there’s nearly always a tiny shutter or upload lag and even slowly taxiing a/c can be a problem.
I’m a Canon and Pentax user and feel the latter are really underrated.My mate was really impressed with the Sony A200 which is now a bargain used with a twin lens kit.
Simply because of the range of used lenses etc.I’d probably go for a used Canon 400D (has bigger screen and dust reduction over the 350D)….MPB Photography on the net have several @ £179,plus a used 70-300,18-200 or 28-300 lens.
Barry
black kettleI tend to share other’s reservations about this but,in the meantime,for the record an 804ft extension to the main runway at IOM was completed a few weeks back,raising total to 6558 ft,which they claim will enable 737/320 ops pretty well europe-wide,so no probs with a jungle jet.BRS sees 767’s off a sub-7000 ft runway!
Barry
black kettleRob
I can’t see the point of going if the only easyjet was one you could have photographed at the UK end!!!!!!!
Seriously,though,glad you enjoyed the location and got excellent results.I must get to see a Germania A319 that they’ve obviously had off Hamburg A/L.
B
black kettleIt’s important to remember FR had operated there for about 10 years and pulled out over the winter,citing poor bookings.Indeed there was a fear they wouldn’t return.The only other operator I know of is Thomson and I’ve no idea what the difference in deal is,if any.I imagine the airport was desperate….that’s not the fault of any airline alone.
I think there’s even now mis-information creeping in.I don’t know where this figure of 29 routes came from.The only announcement I can find was on 20/12/10 FR confirmed they were returning to BOH “for the summer with 13 routes”.Only 12 actually on their web site!.Few if any are daily,and it’s no more than have been operated in the past.
They only do 29 from Bristol with 5 based a/c and some of those are seasonal and cease before others commence.
The MD of Palmair said in the autumn they’d voluntarily returned the a/c.That’s NOT what Astraeus say.He also said they’d wind up in April 2011,using seats on Thomson in the interim,while others were still wondering whether FR were coming back.
Huge pinches of salt methinks and I believe AW may have been sold a fiction again
B
black kettleIF62M
The loss of Palmair is I feel tragic for the historic reasons you say.However,with Flybe and Blue Islands having left BOH there were NO scheduled services and only a handful of holiday flights left.
What was the airport to do having just opened new terminal,car parks, etc?
B
black kettleCloud9
Of course I’ve read the article…..I have it in front of me!!!.The point I’m making is it quotes the views of what it describes as local travel agents.
I’ve never seen it suggested by either Palmair OR Astraeus that they feel FR were the main problem….indeed I’m questioning whether the airline hadn’t ceased trading BEFORE FR said they were returning to BOH.Are you aware they’d also pulled the plug on BOH for Nov/Dec/Jan?
I’ve also sent you a verbatim quote of what the man who ran the b****y airline said were the reasons
Did YOU know about that post on UK Airports site dated 12/1/11,for that matter?
I’m sure many people see the public flocking to lo-cos,away from traditional “packages”,as bad news….2 travel shops have closed in my own small town.
I also accept FR returning to BOH would have been a further nail in the coffin.
black kettleI know it’s not intentional by the last two contributors,but the facts are again being distorted,not least by the AW article omitting any mention of what the CEO of Palmair actually said after the aircraft had been repossessed by Astraeus and,I believe,before FR’s announcement on routes.Ryanair wasn’t mentioned,but airport “hassles” certainly were!
The article also makes no mention of the fact that local travel agents are almost certainly branches of Bath Travel,the retail travel agency that own (ed) Palmair.I’m not absolutely sure whether they were represented thro’ other agencies,but Bath would have accounted for the majority of bookings,hence their staff are not exactly un-biased.
Here’s what Mr Bath said :-
‘The public are fed up with more and more hassle, having their nail scissors taken away, their water bottles, more and more frisking and so-on. The ash cloud has also done more damage to aviation than any other occurrence in aviation in Britain.’
As I keep saying,there’s plenty of evidence people are voting with their feet,not because of airline T & Cs but because of the purgatory they suffer at airports.
black kettleDeano
I half want to draw a line here mate,but feel compelled to say that,without EZY and FR at Bristol,I wouldn’t have much choice,would I?
The airline for which you work has hardly helped to enhance the route network from here,has it?…..unless you include stepping into the Belfast City “gap”
I don’t WANT to fly with Ryanair……if they collapsed tomorrow I’ve no personal connection to them,but I’d fly with any safe carrier.
Barry
black kettleSorry Deano but I’m with Paul……I don’t see anything wrong or out of order with Avgas’s post,especially compared to some other’s posts over the years that have bordered on the personally insulting.
I also feel you’re half making the point for him with your “Beauvais” remark.viz-
a) I don’t believe the bus transfer return to Paris costs 70 euros
b) You have to compare it with the fairly high costs of getting to CDG/ORY,though there IS a time factor.
c) Why do people keep pretending the arrival city is necessarily where the traveller is ultimately ending his/her journey? Many people,my wife included,like small airports and hate the capital city hubs.If you’re picking up a hire car,these “small” airports have their merits.
black kettleSymon
I think the answer to your question is no,they don’t…….and that’s because this isn’t about FR is it?….It’s about Michael O’Leary.
He simply became a figure of hate,like Simon Cowell,because the British like to have someone to hate and seem incapable of looking beyond the “acting” the baddie.
Just like I tend to feel that Cowell is probably the most pleasant of the X Factor mob on a personal level,I tend to think the same about M O’L.
Pure guesswork,I accept,but I feel I’d rather share a few beers in his company than in that of Stelios,Branson,Meeson (Jet 2) or certainly the dreadful Willie Walsh.
It’s worth reading proper articles on some of these!
black kettleInterflug il62m
Of course it’s a generalisation and I know your experience,so you’re not one of the ill informed!!!
In the nicest possible way,and in no way personally to you,I think you know that when I am referring to axe grinding it’s due to a firm belief that those who work for airports and airlines really don’t welcome the whole Lo-co project as they feel it’s had an adverse effect on their careers……probably true!
I think it does influence their objectivity in so far as the end user is concerned.
Genuinely deeply sorry about your health situation….I feel for you losing a career you loved as I’ve experienced it.
Look after yourself
Barry
black kettleMr Totty
That really is NOT true.Are you just ignoring the several people who have already said they’ve flown numerous times without a hitch?How many FR flights have YOU actually done?
As I said in my post I’ve just booked an £18 return flight for two people….result £36 taken off my pre-paid mastercard.They’d have a job to take any more as my password is required!
ALL this is just fanciful nonsense extracted from the gutter press and ill informed online posts from people with “axes to grind”
Perhaps you and others would like to explain how they get to be Europe’s biggest carrier in passenger numbers if everyone who goes with them wishes they hadn’t?
black kettleNice to see some measured responses.I’ve done about the same number of flights on FR as Paul and not really had any problems.
I DO feel their online booking form is a minefield designed to entrap the unsuspecting into buying unwanted extras but the bottom line price before making payment is pretty clear in bold lettering.
The ONLY airline that significantly changed my travel arrangements after booking was Flybe!!….on both trips I’d booked with them in 2009…….one so significantly that a party of four had to book another nights hotel.It was Milan on the Grand Prix weekend and we were told so late alternative flights were full.
LH also altered a flight by a couple of hours last year….it’s not unique to any airline.
BTW…despite what the media imply even this very week,avoiding FR’s card charges is a piece of **** .Simply get a Mastercard pre-paid Escape Card from any Phones4You shop,or online.No qualifications required as you have to pre-load funds.
Have a good trip.I’ve just booked BHX to Trieste in Italy for £18 return on 31/3
Barry
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