It is to be used for de-icing practice all acounts.

That’s not true. She was moved because of work to the the taxiways around her original location. This spot was chosen as it is meant to have better views from outside the airport perimeter.

I believe once T5 opens she will be moved one last time to a location over there.

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Lucky people get to go down the slides :p

Not sure they’d agree.

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Isnt it funny though that the flightdeck and cabin crew all normally get a 4 or 5 point belt while us mere normal pax get a simple over the lap belt? :diablo:

Many moons ago I asked a CAA inspector on my flight about that one, and it seems there are several reasons.

It is considered that the safest brace position is the ‘heads down’ one that passengers use, and this can’t be done with a full harness. This is indeed to prevent large debris, for example overhead lockers and ceiling panels from hitting peoples heads as they would in theory be stopped by the top of the seatback.

Although not considered quite so safe the crew brace position is upright so that we can be heard shouting commands and to some extent observe what is happening in the cabin (nice idea), therefore we need to be held upright, hence the full harness.

The final thing is simplicity of use. You might find it difficult to believe, but the other cabin crew will I’m sure back me up, more often than not when securing a cabin you will have to explain to at least one person the correct way of fastening the seat belt.

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According to http://www.transportdirect.info the ‘Surrey Connect H4’ bus runs from LGW North Terminal Arrivals to the Greyhound Pub in Charlwood, leaving at 20 minutes past the hour and taking 10 minutes.

From there a 5 to 10 minute walk should have you at the end of the runway.

Return journeys go from the Greyhound Pub to LGW South Terminal Departures, leaving at 4 minutes past the hour and taking 11 minutes.

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It’s where the windows are blocked out because of galley and toilet units. You can see it to some extent in practically all of the pictures, but it shows up particularily well on the Delta and on the Etihad 777, just aft of doors 2.

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Stop, look, listen, remember to look left and right before crossing… 😀

And up if you are at an airport!

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No-one that knows me will be surprised but I love the Aurigny.

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Just re-reading my post, one thing that I didn’t make very clear is that ‘standing by’ isn’t in itself how the airlines want to provide flexibility. It’s just an extra thing that some airlines allow passengers to do as a way of increasing flexibility over and above ticket flexibility.

Standby on earlier flight sounds a relatively cheap way of providing flexibility.

You are right that it is a relatively cheap way of doing this, but there are some cost implications. For example an airline cannot reduce the order of catering from it’s supplier at short notice without paying for it anyway. The ‘difficulty’ I referred to was really just in the sense of getting the catering, crewing levels, etc., right when the passengers loads go up or down within minutes of departure.

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