Lanzarote is one of the best places for getting close, there is a fence there (new one which is a real pain!) but if your careful you can get photos without showing it.

At ACE you can get low as they fly over you, to the left of where the pic was taken, just after the runway is a walkway and they fly very low overhead. Almost scary when your under a big jet.

East Midlands is one of the busiest cargo airports in the UK, last year it beat MAN and Stansted!
Problem is that most flights are at night, DHL have a huge facility with 757, 727 and A300’s plus Gemini MD-11 and Kalitta 747 flights. We also get AN-124’s occasionally and I’ve heard Lufthansa are to start an MD-11 flight through EMA on the way to JFK.

Apart from that UPS have a few regular services and Channel Express are regulars.

Seeing as its local for you, couldn’t you fly with Continental from BHX via Newark?
Let me answer my own question – just done a quick search and it is possible.

If this is no good then I would look at MAN, I personally hate LHR to fly from. Somebody I know flew MAN – LAX with bmi / United for £250 rtn a few weeks ago. From MAN you can try CO, AA, BD / UA, DL or US, I would look on the airlines actual website and places like opodo.com as well.

I haven’t got much trust in Travel Agents at the minute. A friend at work wanted to get to Malta (lives in Leicester) and this is what they came up with:
Cost = £230
Hes got to go down to LHR, fly out with Alitalia at 0930 and change aircraft in Milan! As opposed to flying direct on one of two weekly flights from EMA or BHX, or even MAN or LHR (at least daily / 3x daily!). Did a quick search on the Air Malta website and got a direct flight from BHX for £180 same week, the day after he booked that!

The first purchase is about £40 which sounds a little expensive.

But once you have the game the upgrades only cost about £9 each (or £26 for 4).

Its well worth a go, I’m just off to continue mine now, will be adding a few more A330’s to my LHR long haul network.

Yep, I’ve had a few of the earlier versions for a while now.

It taken up a lot of my time and is very addictive. There are a lot of details within the game, you can set schedules and configurations for each aircraft and pretty much do what you want.

I’d highly recommend it, the first time you have it I think they have to ship which takes a while from Aus, but then you can get all updates over e-mail, well worth a try.

I think another forum member Mongu also has it, don’t know anyone else.

5 or 6 won’t be repeated because I think only 4 are or ever will be Airworthy.
4 may happen though at an airshow (possibly Farnborough) but they would have to stop the LHR – JFK service.

They have to do something special to say farewell and a UK tour seems to make sense.

Easyjet spokesman Toby Nichol says it was not necessary to expand Heathrow or Gatwick when there is spare capacity at Luton.

Ha ha, can you imagine BA (or any other airline that doesn’t fly out of LTN) seeing it that way!