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  • in reply to: What the heck!? #660121
    Wingflaps2
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    Is it me or does the Beech Starship in the photo you posted have no tail fin?

    Duesseldwarf (using Wingflaps2 pc)

    in reply to: what ever happened to ukairways #660171
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    Unijet don’t use Monarch. Any flights on behalf of Air 2000 are contracted through the Air 2000 seat broking company, Viking Aviation.

    in reply to: what is your favourite uk airport #660389
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    Both airlines were using Area A yesterday afternoon. It was mostly FR aircraft but there was an EI BAe146 and a 735 also in Area A yestreday

    in reply to: what is your favourite uk airport #660534
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    Birmingham is my favourite UK airport. Modern, clean and tidy, easy to find your way around, easy to get to, good range of flights. My preference!

    Went to Dublin airport yesterday with Dusseldwarf on the Ryanair B737-200 Jaguar aircraft (EI-CJE). Ryanair and Aer Lingus seem to fight over the control of the public tannoy system in the departures area – they are always interupting each other!!!
    My last Ryanair flight for the moment. I don’t have a problem with their aircraft, just the B737-200’s. Those aircraft are turning me into a nervous flyer…….The GTi of the FR fleet!

    in reply to: BMI cut jobs #664159
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    “Fastest fingers first!” Deano, as the man himself, Chris Tarrant, would say!!!

    lol

    in reply to: What would you choose? #666787
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    I prefer the third design.

    in reply to: If You Could Start Your Own Airline #666991
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    I would start a charter airline called Sun Spirit Airways.

    They would operate a mixture of A319/A320/A321/A330 aircraft due to cost savings etc of operating an all Airbus fly-by-wire fleet.

    Med destinations with a few long-hauls thrown in. Based in BHX/EXT/BRS/CWL/NCL/NWI/ABZ.

    in reply to: Pic of the day- caption contest #672535
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    Robin Reliant Aerospace unveil their new 3 wheeler turboprop before the final assembly phase.

    in reply to: Pic of the day- caption contest #672757
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    Learner Catering Truck driver hits aircraft

    in reply to: Pic of the day- caption contest #672929
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    ……….should never have left this in storage at Liverpool!

    in reply to: Holiday Airline #672961
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    I thought that Michael O’Leary swore quite a lot in the FR programme. He said bullsh*t and bolloc*s a quite frequently, which, as a regular FR flyer, gave an even poorer opinion of the company.

    (I’m no moaner about swearing or copulation on tv programmes, but when he was representing his company at 1930 on tv, I was a bit shocked).

    in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675322
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    Thanks Charley B!

    We just happen to be staying at the Caleta Hotel. It’s got a good reputation from what I hear, and I think Duesseldwarf has stayed there before.

    in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675335
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    No. You can certainly fly over Spain. The problem is when you need to divert.
    At certain times of the year, the weather at GIB makes a landing impossible, so the aircraft has to divert. Since the British and Spanish argue over GIB, a flight ex UK scheduled to land at GIB cannot divert to say AGP, XRY, SVQ etc. This is because it is a flight destined for GIB. The aircraft instead (in Monarch’s case) diverts to TNG, lands/refuels, and then flies from TNG to AGP.
    The flight is then allowed to land in AGP, because it originated from Morrocco.
    The pax are bused to/from AGP and GIB.

    Rediculous situation, I know!

    in reply to: Gibraltar Airport #675344
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    ……and I had the pleasure of flying to GIB and back to LTN on 4th August 2002 in the cockpit of B757 G-MOND (Monarch Airlines).

    Monarch Airlines only operate the A320 or the B757 in GIB. The runway wouldn’t allow an AB6 (A300-605R) or an A330-200 (obviously!). The A321 isn’t operated into GIB, because it would mean a restricted payload due to the A321’s performance.

    in reply to: A330 at lba tomorrow! #677343
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    Watched an Air Luxor A330 take-off from LTN a couple of months ago. They were operating the A320 into LTN every week except for that particular week. A fine sight to see!

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