When you think about Jet2 and what they have acheived.
What a missed opportunity by “Lost the Plot Holidays” picking up a few scraps down the road.
Give it to them Jet2.
Fantastic, 15 extra fiights per week.
But did anyone else notice, another 15 extra flights to Belfast,Paris,Toulouse.
30 more flights per week?
Is this correct?
(As 1L says, it’s a small cramped )
Is not the same body section as the 733?
For sure it is.
Lubeck is OK but unfortunately the p**s heads will head straight for the Reeperbahn.
I must have a vivid imagination.
Can only find incidents involving a DC-8 and a B727 connected with Mt.St.Helens.I was so certain about it but obviously wrong.
wawkrk
I seem to remember the incident over Africa was caused by Mt.St.Helens in Washington state. The massive explosion sent out a volcanic dust cloud which circled the earth. Even cars in the UK were covered in the red dust.
This happened in 1980.
wawkrk
You are describing the Jakarta incident unless you are confused with the Air Canada 767 incident on 23/7/83 where the plane glided 45 miles from 35,000 feet to land at Gimli.
No, I remember very clearly reading the story as told by the F/O or could it have been a Flight Engineer then.
He spoke about the grinding noises coming from the Rollers as they tried to re-start one by one.
I think BA had to fly in support equipment because of the primitive facilities at the African airfield. Even no steps to leave the aircraft.
The passengers formed a club afterwards to keep in touch.
The whole incident was miraculous and a huge credit to the crew that they survived.I am sure I did not mix it with Jakarta where the facilities are not so bad I remember.
I am familiar with the Gimli incident where they landed at the race track.
Maybe there was 2 BA747 volcanic dust incidents.
I am sure there was one over the African continent.
All four engines also failed and then restarted I think it was in darkness.
The crew found a small airfield with no navaids and runway lighting partly missing. The cockpit windscreen had been shotblasted and the captain landed the aircraft manually looking out of the side window.
Does anyone else remember this?
wawkrk
MMM, fine for a short break. But what about the prices? You cannot be serious for a holiday. I have lived and worked in Japan.Impossible to travel by road from Yokohama to Tokyo for example.Traffic, horrendous.Ten years ago I was in the Yokohama Grand Hotel. It even had an Italian restaurant.And, live Italian musicians. Spaghetti bolognese, 70 quid. Jap places similar.
Narita has to be the most boring airport on the planet. The only entertainment is the all glass smokers fish tank.Maybe 100 people in a tiny room all smoking like chimneys. You can hardly see them for the smoke fog.
Big plus,micro breweries.Fantastic beers.
Enjoy the chickens feet and wash them down with a glass of raw rotting squid.
Good luck mate.
Last time I was in Molde, I think it was one of the coldest ever winters.
The temperature in the North was close to minus 50deg.
We travelled there from Oslo in an Audi with spiked wheels at breakneck speeds through the night on roads covered with about 200mm of ice.
I think those wheels are banned now. When we arrived in Molde it was around minus 40 deg I think.Two days later I departed from the airport with Braathens on a beautiful sunny day with the jet blast blowing clouds of powder snow into the air.A wonderful sight.
wawkrk
Here are the keys now F O.
Yonks ago flew down to Heathrow from LBA on the BEA Viscount then to Malta on I think a Trident 3B.
I sat next to a guy who paid 75 pounds for the return fare Malta – London.
I had paid 29 pounds for flights and 2 week holiday.
Also at LBA 15/33 became 14/32. This happens because of a natural variation in the magnetic north from time to time I believe.
How many onward connections from LBA to EWR?
LBA – Amsterdam
LBA – Heathrow
LBA – Dublin
LBA – Brussels
LBA – Paris
LBA – Bristol
LBA – Edinburgh
LBA – Glasgow
LBA – Shannon (next)
Some jouneys by bus to selected UK airport.
And plus Manchester direct.
Not everyone is looking at air-miles loyalty cards etc.
I personally always went through Amsterdam. Better than London but I lived close to LBA. No chance to set off to Manchester early morning.
What to do with the car when her in doors needed it.
Here we go again: from citymayors.com
Cities, towns & districts Population.
London 7,074,265 49.12
Birmingham 1,020,589 49.42
Leeds 726,939 49.43
Glasgow 616,430 47.73
Sheffield 530,375 49.73
Bradford 483,422 49.32
Liverpool 467,995 48.80
Edinburgh 448,850 48.29
Manchester 430,818 49.33
Bristol 399,633 49.59
Kirklees 388,807 49.17
Fife 349,300 48.44
Wirral 329,179 47.89
North Lanarkshire 325,940 48.58
Wakefield 317,342 49.53
Cardiff 315,040 49.09
Dudley 312,194 49.62
Wigan 309,786 49.50
East Riding 308,689 48.87