I was up at Belfast City a few weeks back and watching A321 land on 22 is quite an interesting experience. I’ve never seen an aircraft brake so hard, it’s worse than Edinburgh. I was convinced that at least two of the seven daily flights were going to overshoot the runway.

Have a good one my friend!

I didn’t hear anything about Jet2 at Bournemouth but you would have to say that it would be an ideal move with Channel Express being based there.

It’s only a matter of time until a loco takes up Buzz’s place at Bournemouth.

easyJet originally ordered 737NGs but about a year back decided they had a need for 120 new aircraft. They offered both Airbus and Boeing to make proposals and Airbus gave a better deal, thus they went for Airbus which will now be the backbone of the fleet.

London airspace is the hardest to work in in the world. It is a bottleneck for crossings into mainland Europe, almost every aircraft coming from the states passes through it at some point. Within a 60 mile radius there are four more major airports, Stansted, Gatwick (busiest single runway airport in the world), Luton and London City.

It is widely regarded as the most challenging airspace in the world and is universally accepted that the Heathrow controllers are the best of the best.

Quite a lot of the time serious turbulence can be caused by major thermals or air pockets, these are much harder to find on a weather radar.