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February 2, 2009 at 9:24 am in reply to: Snow Diversions #578467

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STN closed again for half hour a little while ago and is currently re-open with a 36m wide strip. Here’s the latest view out the window:

And this is why I soon got stuck attempting to drive to work:

February 2, 2009 at 8:17 am in reply to: New JetPhotos.Net #578472

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Why did they do that, it seems that they’ve tried to copy a.net’s latest design which IMO is still cr@p?

Both sites have lost the 3 columns idea with everything neatly set out, and gone for this ‘modern’ look where they just seem to throw all the elements of the homepage on to a blank wall, and see where they stick!

February 2, 2009 at 7:48 am in reply to: Snow Diversions #578475

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Just got through the front door having abandoned my car half a mile away. We’re absolutely screwed down here, it took half hour to get the car cleared and off the driveway. Having slid most of the way down my road, I couldn’t get up the hill at the other end and so now my car is just stuck in the middle!

Really not sure what’s going to happen…looks like I’m some how gonna have to work from home. STN and LCY are closed currently, LHR has 1 runway open. It seems that most of the LHR heavies are managing to land, but all aircraft waiting to depart Europe for LHR have got ridiculous 400min (6 hour!) slot delays.

February 1, 2009 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Snow Diversions #578671

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Stop whinging you southern git. It isn’t like your job is without its advantages as well is it?! 😀

I’m hoping LBA will open again tomorrow at some point so me and my camera can brave the cold and take a few photos!

Paul

Paul, you should know bl00dy well after Thursday in MAN that I’m not very good with the cold. You’re just used to it, Northerner! :p Surprisingly though, it looks like we’re actually gonna get it worse down here than up there. So you may be in luck for some nice shots tomorrow at LBA, the snow lights up the bottom of the aircraft v nicely! 😀

As for STN….well I’m listening to Essex radar. Planes are being told not to expect to land until midnight at the earlier, 75 minutes of holding. Most aircraft are accepting LGW now. What a mess already.

February 1, 2009 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Snow Diversions #578678

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Tomorrow is shaping up to be an absolute nightmare, if weather reports are to be believed. There is the quite realistic possibility of several major airports being snow-closed tomorrow, with the bad weather spreading north and west!

Tell me about it, and I’ve some how got to drive 20 miles to work where I’m going to be in charge of sorting the mess out for our particular airline! My car is already disappearing under a blanket of snow, I honestly haven’t seen snow like this since I was in Niagara Falls last Winter. STN’s latest METAR:

LONDON/STANSTED EGSS 012220Z 03010KT 1000 R05/1100 +SHSN BKN004 M03/M03 Q1007

February 1, 2009 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Snow Diversions #578685

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Add to that (these were all LGW bounds) a Thomsonfly went to MAN and a Monarch to LTN. A Norwegian Air Shuttle went to BOH (how embarassing, an airline from Norway which spends half of the year knee-deep in snow, has to divert because of a snow shower in London!).

I hope no-one has flights booked for a couple of days?

January 29, 2009 at 11:59 pm in reply to: MAN 29 Jan 2009 #476427

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Nice shot Cloudwarrior, I saw that one pull in while I was waiting in Oceansky. Did you get any shots of GBYCP of GLEAB? I was on those aircraft today.

January 25, 2009 at 7:52 am in reply to: MAN Thurs 29th Jan #581794

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Damn, not to worry Lance and Tom. Any other takers??

January 25, 2009 at 7:50 am in reply to: Barajas Photography #581795

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Cheers for that Peter and Sam. I did see that spottign guide on plane-mad.com, but all the locations looked too far to walk. Peter, you say that walk is quite long, but do you know approx how long it took? I’ve booked the flight for the end of March, only 5 hours on the ground so I’m hoping to atleast get 2 hours taking photos.

January 24, 2009 at 10:04 pm in reply to: What airlines have you been on? #581806

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Mine may seem a bit long for a 20 year old but I had my first flight when I was 6, followed by atleast 3 holidays a year until I was 13. From then onwards I started flying by myself, I’m 3 miles from Stansted the home of Ryanair and so have managed to clock up over a hundred flights on them over the last 5 years (it sounds a lot but it’s only just over 1 return flight a month, quite easy when I was in school with all those holidays etc they give you!). And then I went round-the-world in 2008, over the US, Hawaii, NZ, Oz and Thailand which added about 30 airlines and 50 flights to the list. I hope you don’t think I’m b*llsh*tting! I have a log book of reg’s and boarding passes to prove it…..

January 20, 2009 at 11:58 pm in reply to: Can anyone please confirm aircraft rerouting #582927

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Did it then fly MAN-GLA ?

Yes, arrived in EGPF from EGCC at 2028.

January 20, 2009 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Can anyone please confirm aircraft rerouting #583066

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Yep G-JMCG arrived in EGCC as opposed to EGPF @ 1842.

January 19, 2009 at 11:29 pm in reply to: What airlines have you been on? #583542

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Seeing as I’ve got nothing else to do on my night shift…! In no particular order, just off the top of my head.

Ryanair (103 737-800s, 1 737-200)
Singapore Airlines (1 A380, 1 747-400, 2 777-200s)
Air UK Leisure (2 767-200s)
Virgin Atlantic (2 747-200s and 1 A340-600)
Air UK (2 Fokker 100s)
Britannia/Thomsonfly (14 757-200s and 2 767-300s)
Airtours/Mytravel (6 767-300s and 6 A320s)
Airworld (2 A320s)
AOM (2 DC-10s)
Delta (1 MD-11, 2 767-300s and 1 MD80)
Go (4 737-300s)
CSA (2 737-400s)
Germanwings (1 717, 1 A320)
KLM (1 A330-200, 1 767-300)
Lufthansa (2 A321s)
Swiss (2 ARJs and 2 A320s)
Easyjet (4 737-300s, 3 737-700s, 5 A319s)
BA (2 767-300s, 2 A319s, 3 A320s, 1 757-200, 1 737-500)
Bmi (3 A321s and 1 ERJ)
Jet2 (6 737-300s)
US Airways (1 737-300)
Aer Lingus (1 A330-300)
Buzz (2 737-300s)
Iberia (1 A340-300, 3 A321s and 2 MD80s)
Binter Canarias (1 ATR72)
Flybe (2 146s, 2 Q400s)
Qantas (2 747-400s, 1 737-400)
Australian Airlines (2 767-300s)
Malaysia Airlines (1 737-400 and 1 Fokker 50)
Flightline (1 146)
Astraeus (2 737-700s)
Air Berlin (4 737-700s, 4 Fokker 100s)
GB Airways (6 A320s)
Thomas Cook (6 757-200s, 2 A320s)
Jetblue (1 ERJ190)
Southwest (1 737-700)
Frontier (1 A318, 1 A319)
Scenic Airlines (2 Twin Otters)
ATA (1 737-800)
Hawaiian Airlines (2 717-200s)
Go! (1 CRJ)
Mokulele Airlines (3 Cessna Caravans)
United (2 777-200s, 3 767-300s, 1 A320)
American Airlines (2 777-200s, 1 767-200, 2 767-300s, 1 757-200)
Virgin America (1 A319)
Air New Zealand (1 777-200, 1 A320)
Virgin Blue (2 737-800s)
Jetstar (1 A320, 1 A321)
Bangkok Airways (1 ATR72)
Air Asia (1 737-300)

I think that’s about it, I may have missed a few.

January 15, 2009 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Routing of airline from Pt A – Pt B #585751

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Cloud_9, I work in ops but unfortunately most of your questions are irrelevant for our set-up. Someone like EGNM (Steve) would be a good bet to answer your questions, although as with everything in airline ops there are far too many other variables to give a realistic/definitive answer.

January 14, 2009 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Routing of airline from Pt A – Pt B #585807

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How is this the manufacturer’s problem?

Come on Gents, surely your not that naive as to think a manufacturer will publish what routes it can achieve, this is why it states the range it will achieve.

Deano, I’m not agreeing with Ship’s points about airlines buying an aircraft and basing their judgement on the published range. The airline I work for has quite complex software in place to make sure we don’t offer flights to customers that the aircraft wouldn’t actually be able to fly (even if it does appear to be within range). I’m merely saying that for the average forum viewer who might not know much about flight planning, he is making a valid point in that published range isn’t equal to the distance it can fly from x to x. I have friends who still think that planes take off, turn in the direction they want to go in, and then find their way in a straight line by ‘SatNav’!
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