J8, thanks very much. Is that a heavily modified Mig19?

When the A380 first flew it was about 80 tonnes overweight. The weight was shed throughout the flight test program through continuous refinment. Does anyone know if the 787 will come in on weight or will it fly overweight?

Steve

A spokesman from MAPLC was on Radio5 earlier this evening. Apparently they were charging Ryanair £3 per pax. Having recently had the displeasure of flying on Ruinair for the first and the last time I can state that I was charged way more than £3 on charges. Can anyone please explain Ruinairs pricing re passing on Airport charges bar ‘rip-em off’.

Goodbye to bad rubbish. I have flown on EZY and LS recently and their products are far superior to Ruinairs. Lets hope they move swiftly to take up vacant slots.

Steve

How can our government hope to get this one running when they cant even manage to get 8 Chinooks into the air?

If this projects goes ahead and point to point domestic flights from airports that are within a catchment terminus are stopped then will the APD on unaffected flights where rail is still much slower (MAN-NQY) be dropped?

Steve

The devils food is surely Asparagus. If you were to see the Jolly Green Giant in the nip, his dangily would look like Asparagus.

Given that a large proprtion of Ryanairs Pax are people going away on their week(s) holiday, it will prevent these people from travelling with Ryanair. Is MOL mad? A large majority of his Central and Southern European destinations are holiday destination. With his ill thought out plan he has now effectively axed these passengers from his flights. This has played right into the hands of Easyjet et al who should now benefit from these extra passengers.

If I were the CEO of Easyjet, to jump on the bandwagon I would now abloish all charges to check in hold luggage for free.

As an aside. Before Ryanair imposed ‘cost saving’ charges to load hold luggage, I assume that your ticket price already included the price of putting a bag in the hold. Now, if you didnt put a bag in the hold shouldnt you of got a discount on your ticket :dev2:

Steve

Loganair BN2 Islander flying from Sumburgh to Unst in February.

The headwind was so strong that on approach we were barely moving forward. The turbulence was so bad that we were bouncing around all over the place. I cracked my head off the window while looking out. We were still 50 to 75 foot in the air as we went over the threshold when the pilot throttled back and stuck the nose downwards. The stall alarm sounded and the nose went down even further. It was put down with a whack like I have never felt before. We used only 30 or 40 foot of runway, even the pilot took a deep breath when we stopped.

Top Gear sexist, never. They always have that German Bird on :diablo::diablo::diablo::diablo:

I cant help but wonder if Dr Livesey is an eco-feminist with an agends and chip on her shoulder.

Steve