Don`t hold your breath. Do not expect any quick changes. The wrong mob won the deal. Yes they will provide more space for the hordes with another giant sticking plaster. They cannot afford to spend the required investment.
The price was too high.

I think the buyer is a good choice to be honest, but I agree they paid a lot, over 30x EBITDA, which is more than LCY went for. The truth is, like it or not though, that sticking plaster development is the way forward for regional airport development in the UK because the airlines won’t pay for anything more.

PS they have only order 15 new
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners with an option on a further 8 aircraft,

James

Yes, but they have purchase rights on a further 20, taking the total to the 43 shown. When promoting orders such as this it is typical to show the maximum scope of the order, it looks more impressive.

A woman at Thomas Cook says its a 757-300 but saying TCX334K/L were unrecognised. She says Thomas Cook now only operate 300’s :rolleyes:

Well, if she’s claiming they only operate 300s now, then I’m sure we’ll really believe her on everything she has to say!!:rolleyes:

However, it appears that as I was posting, so was ClanWilliam, admitting it was a 747, so really not a ‘small’ aircraft at all then LOL.

Would have to disagree with both suggestions, the Islander obviously cannot be mistaken as having ‘no wheels’ and everybody, certainly everybody who would post on an aviation forum would know a ‘Jumbo’.:)

Or at least they wouldn’t refer to it as small!

The second one reminds me of one of those puzzles, you know the ones, the 11 piece jigsaws in 12 square little frame, and you have to get it in the right order by slidding each piece into the empty square you have. Hilarious, though I’m sure its not an infrequent occurance at airports like JFK.

It is simply the way the retracted bogey fits into the fuselage, the 767’s angles downwards for this reason and was designed as such to enable the bogey to fit within the fuselage. It is not a pilot selected option or for aerodynamics or another reason.

I thought on the 767 that it was actually a centre of gravity issue based on where the undercarriage is, and that if the bogey hung in the same way as all other aircraft the COG would be pushed too far back? I could be wrong, but for years that has been my understanding given things I had read, I can’t remember the source(s) of this piece of knowledge, I’ll do a search…as I say I could be (and probably am) wrong.