Recent content by lbia

Whilst I'm not a huge supporter of LBA's managent from an instrstructure point of view, White Heather is totally correct. For once I can firmly say that LBA managent have done their hardest to keep PIA and the infrastructure has nothing to do with it. It all comes down to economics and PIA is in...

Ten quid says that it doesn't appear. You never know though, the KLM ops management might be avid readers of this forum and wish to please the LBA anoraks.

The airport have created Gate 5A (due to a certain airline refusing to subjecting their customers to the current Gate 5 joke) so very shortly, people will follow a queue system downstairs and exit the terminal in the corner, where the fire door used to be, rather than having to struggle upstairs...

I think the most realistic option for the next long haul connection could come from Etihad, that are getting cosy with small regional airlines to feed their Abu Dhabi hub. They have got a deal going on with Darwin using Saabs based in Geneva. I think if they could get a twice daily Leeds-Geneva...

Having just booked with BA, they were actually very similar to KLM prices from LBA but for the route I was taking they have a direct flight from LHR. I looked at various different destinations - a lot of south America & USA are cheaper with KLM but BA seem to be dramatically cheaper to Asia, and...

Ahh that explains it then. I hope they do something with the configuration as Monarch's 757's have the old style charter seat which is very thick and had a solid 28" legroom. Jet2's 30" legroom is far from roomy for a 7 hour flight to NYC, so LBA-Florida with an hour fuel stop will be hellish...

I've not been on here for ages, but sounds like something fun and should give a good bit of Marketing. How sure are we that a 757 will be flying this? As far as a I know, Monarch's 757's are not ETOPS certified and none have winglets - I'm not sure what the planned passenger load for these...

Reported on another forum a huge list of Ryanair cancellations, looks like Riga, Reus and Barca are all on the list. I wonders what Ryanair are planning, I've mentioned it a few times already how LBA based Airlines are expanding elsewhere (MAN) so I'm hoping that routes are not just being moved...

Re: Leeds Bradford - General Thread An excellent update.

It's a shame they have dropped Munich (again) but I think an A320 is to big for this route, I wonder if Jet2 will give it a go. Grenoble has not done well for Jet2 this winter and looks like Monarch haven't had very good bookings so far either. It's good to see Larnaca is back, they have had...

Stand 1 can handle a 737-300, parked nose out to the runway, but not for passenger operations. It's only a place to park a free aircraft for a few hours.

The route must be bleeding money for them to can it completely, they must not think chopping it down from 3x to 2x daily would do any good. Now eastern have a crew base back at LBA, they must want to give it a go again?

I don't think KLM have been impacted, visibly anyway, the aircraft are usually 50-70% full, and the connections offered are often cheaper than what BA offer (westbound anyway - BA seem to be cheaper for far east one stop connections) Jet2 carry between 6000 (on a bad month) and 8000 (on a good...

Hold on a minute LS16, I have mentioned nothing about the cost of the new FIDS system. I was merely pointing out that for LBA to continue the passenger growth it Has seen over the last year it needs to improve the infrastructure to allow the based airlines to grow. The growth has come because...

There has been much debate on here regarding the future and the lack of investment for the future. White Heather has reported that LBA's response to this is that they aim to grow by attracting 'non-based' airlines. With the announcement of SAS, hats off for getting them in but a twice weekly...