Interesting, I’m looking to go to Seattle as well. Coming up as about £600 on NWA site which is pretty standard to get over.

Would have thought they would have done an introductory seat sale though, anyone know if they will be doing this?

No wonder it over ran, there was noone in the cockpit monitoring the landing!

Yeah it is. And also as discussed before, the two engines on each wing were mounted together where engines 2/3 are for a scene in Casino Royal. Westlife jus happened to use it also.

Everytime I go back to NZ I usually always fly Star so BD to LHR and connect from there, so even BA aren’t getting my business for that. Even if I didn’t go BD though, I would be quite happy going BA to LHR. I suppose it is just the way I’m used to travelling now. If I want to go anywhere long haul I will have to connect through LHR from EDI to get there. This is what makes me mad that people are opposing the 3rd runway at LHR – would speed up this (usually) necessary trip.

Where as I think BA could steal some business away from the american and asian carriers by flying long haul from outside of LHR, I think as long as they have good feeder services into LHR from regional airports the system does work. No doubt though, of course, there would be many happy travellers should they one day decide to take up the former option!

Never knew that 😮 So really, Air Berlin are soon to become pretty much Air Germany!

When did Air Berlin order the A330? And what routes are they putting it on?

I can’t remember exactly if EDI has dedicated snow clearing vehicles or just attachments for the 4×4’s (probably the former), but it is the Airport Ops and Security staff that actually do the snow clearing. During the winter period, those trained are on call for selected dates and if snow hits the airport they drop what they are doing and come in and clear it as best they can.