So, let me get this right. Two fully laden a/c coming into contact with each other on the ground is a perfectly normal and acceptable practice, and one which should be dismissed by all and sundry as a “ridiculous non event”

Hardly “perfectly normal and acceptable practice” but still a routine incident that happens all the time.

What next? News reports whenever a go-around occurs, or an aircraft diverts?

Oh, wait a second…:rolleyes:

Nope, I’m questioning BAA’s wisdom in publicly inviting a large group of people to participate in an exercise in standing in the same place, so soon after the GLA attack… Maybe Al Qaeda like dress rehearsals too ?

I still don’t understand how it is any different from the normal day to day operations of all the other terminals.

Apart from the fact that the number of people in T5 “standing around” during the trials is going to be far less than the number of people “standing around” on the first day of normal operations?

I highly doubt they’ll be letting us all run amok through the buildings with no supervision or police oversight!

Fantastic location mate, you really picked a good one there!

I’m in a similar situation in Leeds now, totally by mistake! I only realised after I had moved in quite how good a view I have over the approach! :p

Do you know what route the United Airlines 744 operates on, I would love to fly on it one-day?

It’s running on the SFO route currently I think. It can be found on all UA’s other routes intermitently though. They are however meant to be one of the worst aircraft in the fleet for Trans-Atlantic flying though…

The Leeds – London railway line provides just too much competition sadly. I took this on Friday night, and the journey time is a shade over 2 hours.

One of the reasons MAN-LCY has worked so well is because the West Coast Main Line linking Manchester and London has effectively been closed for the last few years, so bad have the engineering works been.

If anything over the next few years Leeds will lose London air links rather than gain them. LBA-LHR is a primary source of slots for bmi to use for Transatlantic routes. I already go to MAN to catch flights to the US, Africa, and elsewhere, and tbh by rail it is sometimes quicker than the horrendous road journey from the City Centre of Leeds to LBA.

LCY-LBA will always be desired by a small group of people (myself included. This route took me to Leeds for the 1st time back in March 2005 so its very sentimental to me indeed!), but the train is just too competitve sadly, especially with additional frequencies likely in the near future 🙁

I found these two pictures of A zone on BA 747s on A.net

Thankfully for the better! I shudder to think what a 12 hour overnight to JNB in those old seats would have been like compared to the newer ones. For a start you’d have 3 stops to get there as well I suppose!

Edit: That said, I do really like the flower design on the closet. Much nicer than the plain wardrobe doors I ended up staring at all the way to and from SA! 😀

Great news Adam!

Are you going to be involved in the new inter-airport-agency coordination scheme and/or EFAS? I think both are trialling at Manchester (might just be one or the other though I can’t remember) as I’ve had a little bit of involvement in these myself. They sound rather similar to what your job description entails!

Plus we’re delighted that once again, we’ve outperformed our competitors with our on-time performance. Not once, but twice.

To be fair, it isn’t that difficult when you look at the competition. 🙁

I think the info has been mentioned before, but merged into some other bmi threads perhaps…? Anyway, I’m sure it warrants it’s own thread anyway! :p