Leeds Bradford - General Thread

[LBA4EVER]

Ok I'm going to be greedy, Its impossible to just add 1 route & airline, so here a few from me to start with.

London Heathrow - British Airways (Needs reinstating ASAP)
Paris - Air France (For Sky Team connections)
Copenhagen - Ryanair
Bergen - Widerøe (For the Scandaniva based LUFC fans)
Berlin - Eurowings, Ryanair
Frankfurt - Lufthansa Cityline (For Star Alliance connections)
Madrid - Iberia Express, Air Europa (Easier Connections to South America)
Barcelona - Vueling, Ryanair (Need more capacity)
Istanbul - Pegasus or even better Turkish Airlines (For Star Alliance connections)
Antalya, Dalaman - Sun Express, Anadolujet or Corendon Airlines (Need more capacity)

My list could go on.

Definitely agree with your list, these are routes and airlines we could easily attract esp with the new terminal, one more to pos add, brussels airlines to Brussels.

 

[CM.]

Nooo! This cannot get any worser! They’re talking about here the red list destinations which were recently added. It’s Turkey, but that was added ages ago. And they say 7 destinations are added. Only Jet2 fly to Turkey. Dalaman, Antalya, Izmir and Bodrum. Are there any decent local news that know the basics?
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/jet-2-ryanair-leeds-bradford-20860771

 

[White Heather]

Nooo! This cannot get any worser! They’re talking about here the red list destinations which were recently added. It’s Turkey, but that was added ages ago. And they say 7 destinations are added. Only Jet2 fly to Turkey. Dalaman, Antalya, Izmir and Bodrum. Are there any decent local news that know the basics?
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/jet-2-ryanair-leeds-bradford-20860771

There's nothing new here and only Turkey on the red list that is normally served from LBA.

 

[dmrodgers]

New Chief Financial Officer appointed at Leeds Bradford. Lets hope he can get the airport back on its feet and push the business forward in the future.

Leeds Bradford Airport bolsters senior leadership team

Alex Tong has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA).

www.blmforum.net

 

[LBAYORKIE]

New Chief Financial Officer appointed at Leeds Bradford. Lets hope he can get the airport back on its feet and push the business forward in the future.

Leeds Bradford Airport bolsters senior leadership team

Alex Tong has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA).

www.blmforum.net

So what happened to the last one?

 

[White Heather]

So what happened to the last one?

He was only ever there on a temporary basis when appointed.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

He was only ever there on a temporary basis when appointed.

Ok, well lets hope this chaps apparent lack of aviation sector experience isnt a hinderance.

 

[lbaspotter]

I wonder if the RAF might turn up tonight after the England game.
Nothing quite like upsetting the locals with a bit of noise, is the?

 

[LBA4EVER]

All kicks off tomorrow at LBA with the first large number of jet2 flights plus all other operators!

 

[CM.]

All kicks off tomorrow at LBA with the first large number of jet2 flights plus all other operators!

Very true. But what’s annoying is Flightradar24 shows all the Jet2 flights which should have been operating. I wish they was!

 

[LBA4EVER]

Very true. But what’s annoying is Flightradar24 shows all the Jet2 flights which should have been operating. I wish they was!

So what your saying is only a few of them are operating? A fl24 error? Bugger!

 

[CM.]

So what your saying is none of them are operating? A fl24 error?

Correct, apart from Ibiza, Mahon and Palma.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Correct, apart from Ibiza, Mahon and Palma.

Ok so still pretty poor really, its hard to believe that its been like this for over a year now, 15months in fact!

 

[Scottie Dog]

Very true. But what’s annoying is Flightradar24 shows all the Jet2 flights which should have been operating. I wish they was!

Hi - I assume you are referring to the "airport" tab on FR24? If so I have exactly the same problem when producing my daily movements for the Manchester forum as FR24 shows(ed) loads of BY flights that don't currently operate.
We should however be grateful for all the wonderful data that we, nowadays, take for granted.
By the way, I'll be back doing my logs from Monday as I'm currently on a short break.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

A false alarm in control tower resulted in this mornings Ibiza flight holding in the loop for several minutes, eventually shut down both engines. I also believe 6 passengers were removed from the flight before it taxied.

 

[CM.]

Hi - I assume you are referring to the "airport" tab on FR24? If so I have exactly the same problem when producing my daily movements for the Manchester forum as FR24 shows(ed) loads of BY flights that don't currently operate.
We should however be grateful for all the wonderful data that we, nowadays, take for granted.
By the way, I'll be back doing my logs from Monday as I'm currently on a short break.

Yes I was. I’m great full for all flights that operate. I would say the post at the time was more of a rant. Thankyou for the logs as it makes it easier to understand as I know you always do the logs for Manchester which I appreciate.

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Where do FR24 get there feed for these services from? Is it OAG? If so I wonder if they've taken the OAG data that was available prior to Green list/Green watch list etc.

What also I see happening is flights departing on time, on their revised schedule, but because the data they've got recognises the flight number (for example LS831), departs at 10:00 it will show late as it expected a departure at 06:30.

 

[CM.]

Where do FR24 get there feed for these services from? Is it OAG? If so I wonder if they've taken the OAG data that was available prior to Green list/Green watch list etc.

What also I see happening is flights departing on time, on their revised schedule, but because the data they've got recognises the flight number (for example LS831), departs at 10:00 it will show late as it expected a departure at 06:30.

With regards to your question I have no idea how they get feed for the services.

Ive noticed they tend to remove the flights which are non operational after a while. Which makes it easier to understand and is clear what flights will be operating. So soon I’m guessing they will remove the flights from LBA and others which are not operating for the time being.

 

[twevsmiff]

If you want an accurate list of the daily scheduled flights in and out of LBA, use the airports own arrivals board. FR24 really unreliable.

Arrivals | Leeds Bradford Airport

Live arrival and departure times at Leeds Bradford Airport

www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk

 

[CM.]

I wouldn’t say FR24 is that unreliable. I’m always on it and is usually very accurate for the LBA flights. I think in this case as it wasn’t long ago when LS decided to cancel non green flights FR24 hasn’t picked it up and assumed they are still operating.

But agreed you can also use the LBA website to.