Happy birthday Anna, how many is that now then ?:D

Well it’s the often quoted “pay peanuts, get monkey’s” scenario again isn’t it. For once I feel slightly defensive of Michael Ryan. Shouldn’t the airport be providing wheelchairs within it’s terminal areas and not the individual airlines ?

I could understand it from an apron to plane point of view but surely within the domain of the terminal building, that kind of issue is for BAA or whatever operator to resolve ?

And yes Kevin, this should have been sorted out behind closed doors without making the unfortunate Mr Ross a scapegoat in the matter. Good on him for taking umbrage.

Originally posted by Arthur
Hey, i only did a TV report once, and at the crucial bit my dear rent-a-cameraman didn’t have a tape loaded…

So was the crucial bit right at the start ?

Originally posted by T5
I’m definitely going to St Maarten… one day 😀

Perhaps we could arrange a meet there!

Let’s make it our first international meet !:D

Originally posted by Dutchy
Beautiful, astonishing*

*But what I wonder about is it because of the plane or in spite of it
😀

I’d say in spite of the plane. It’s a moment of quality lighting and (arguably) most airliners would look jusy as superb in the same conditions. One hell of a picture though and one of those reminders why I love taking plane pics.

There’s a Damien Day in every news organisation, or should I say Andrew Gilligan ?

My experience of doing that particular work is that you should never trust a journalist, and always rely on them to have you somewhere late with egg on your face

Generally speaking, I get on with the snappers I meet in news, with the exception of a few News International chaps who could do with a bit of a slap. Especially prior to a scrum when we’ve all agreed positions and they unashamedly stand in front of your lens when you’re twenty feet away from a press conference and tripod mounted on a feckin long lens doing big close-ups.

Thankfully I don’t do news these days, a charmed existence in documentarys, studios and OB’s has done wonders for my blood pressure.

Originally posted by EAL_KING
its a shame werent they a good airline why did they go bust?

Lack of PAX

Originally posted by Flood
Sorry – I was trying to turn the TV off but it was car-crash television. Think the cameraman kept pushing photographers heads out of the way and someone else would leap into the space…
Would have thought the beeb would have given their guys at least a little preference!;)

Flood.

A news scrum, is a news scrum and that will never change. Presumably you were watching News 24 pictures either on News 24 or main channels, as it would have been. News 24 is a breeding ground for inexperienced cameramen and every other discipline involved in ENG.