Depends how busy you are going to be and what you want to do with it….Excel has a limitation of some 65,000 rows of data and 255 columns per worksheet and the number of worksheets limited by your PC memory. You could feasibly have one worksheet per aircraft type or per country unless you went mad in the US. It makes things difficult to bring the lot together and produce a decent listing, log or for checking.
My current employer uses Access which most decent PCs will have as standard and would enable you to do everything you need in one table and its fairly intuitive to set up your own reports and forms using the wizards.

I started off using Foxpro as that was what I used in my previous job and that is even more capable of doing reports and checking but does need some basic knowledge of programs to get you going.

Of the ready populated databases available for the spotter, I concluded that Aerodata’s Quantum plus has the better quality and most aircraft.

Pay your money and take your pick. Make sure that whatever you choose doesn’t tie you in the house.

Why am I sat here watching this when I have a home to go to?

Shirley though, many people would not be flying now if there were no low cost carriers. Today you have a choice. And that availability of choice means many nore people are employed in the aviation transport industry.

I still look forward to a time when you can just turn up at an airport and board a plane much like you do at a railway station. It’s only history that has made air travel a ‘select’ option.

Personally, also, I like Ryanair’s break down of fees etc as it highlights the rip offs by government departments.
Now who is going to break down where the price of a litre of fuel goes?

Do we have an anniversary coming up of the Yellowjacks, Black Arrows or Blue Diamonds to commemorate? Yellow Hawks would be nice!

Could it be that Jackson has heard of a dam that’s going to be removed in the next couple of years?

I don’t like to contradict a moderator but Flybe were rebranded as a low cost carrier in 2002, some years after Ryanair had started LCC operations. A distinct case of let’s follow the market trend!
If you’re looking at date of original founding then yes, I’ll agree.

It’s probably still too early in the game. The manufacturers still have high levels of order backlog with few cancellations so far. If we run for another 6 or 12 months with the same level of new orders as we’ve seen over the past 12 months the manufacturers will have to reduce build rates and lay people off or take orders where they can get them.

From RYR or any airlines point of view, why pay more than you need? It has to be good business practice to order in the downturn.

Those of us that browse these forums from work during the week only, have no idea what is going on! Once a decision has been made will we be told what the decision refers to???