American to start seasonal service to EDI from JFK using the A321XLRs
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Nice to see Scottish airports growing, Edinburgh is building new stands right now just across from the South terminal, Prestwick just recently got it’s 5th major cargo contract and Glasgow just finished a £3.7 million terminal upgrade
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Exactly! LHR is my airport, and it would just be a so much nicer experience with more lanes. Less traffic and more time to do some spotting!
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Not gonna break out my engineering knowledge but more lanes doesn’t necessarily mean less traffic. You need to combine that with increased public transport but governments don’t know how to do that, especially in the UK lmao.
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Is it unfeasable to make that part of the M25 sunken into a tunnel and build the airport over it?
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Nothing’s unfeasible but its taken the UK government nearly 30 years to come up with a plan to build a tunnel under the Thames to the East of London and they’ve not even put a shovel in the ground yet. An look at the state that is HS2 lol. One of my other go to interests outside of aviation is looking at the unfinished roads of the UK motorway network and holy moly are there a lot. Sabre Roads if anyone is interested. Hope they go for the big runway option at LHR or they’ll regret it and we’ll have another 20 years of PMQ’s where they’ll be blaming each other for the oversight.
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Long story short, our government is full of idiots!
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That’s actually really interesting! But are both types of mask called the raccoon mask?
Couldn’t agree more and same thing here in the downunder.
In Adelaide we have a motorway that built for 50 years and still incomplete. And public transport to the airport is still more than a torture. Sometimes I live alone so no one can drive me to airport and I have to spend $50+ on uber for this.
In Sydney, where I mostly stay for business reasons. The NSW state government literally sold everthing they could and taking a train from Sydney airport will cost you from $20 due to the airport station use fee (you still pay about $10 for simply transferring by train between international & domestic terminal if you don’t fly on Qantas on your next leg). So wanna take taxi? No problem, expect to pay $100 with about $10 paid to airport for picking you up. The best way to do is always taking a bus to Mascot station if you want to save some money, FYI.
In Melbourne there is simply extremely weird back and forth over the airport link train, I don’t have business in Melbourne as of this moment but I think many local people are enough for the drama.
I travel mostly one time to China every year for business reasons (and part of my family are migrants from there). The problem there is that many airports have a massive, cold and very bland atmosphere and most ground service people don’t speak decent English. But if you look at them they are generally well planned and there is no rail station trap like SYD.
I traveled between Changchun city and its airport this July and it cost me only 10 CNY (about 1.5 USD or 2.2 AUD). Even I pay $10 for that distance on a train with a proper seat is definitely better than paying $20+ for a cramped local train in Sydney.
I also travel to Chongqing Airport (CKG), there is a post about this airport in feature request btw. I landed at Terminal 2 but I need to go to Terminal 3 at another side since the person to meet me went to a wrong terminal and I have to travel to another side of the airport. I had the option to take the metro (same thing like Sydney one right?) for just 2 CNY (for 0.3 USD or 0.5 AUD). But I took the free shuttle bus. Well at least this gave me a better first impression on the city and I would be happier if I make a deal in this city.
Don’t get me wrong I am not praising China because first I know there are a lot of issues with the country like internet censorship (many people in China have to play this game with VPN and I know that’s tricky). Second and most ironically, shouldn’t everyone take that for granted? I mean airport is the gateway of the city, where the first impressions are built, and government should do the best to make this as easy as possible for people to navigate around instead of taking the very last pennies out of everyone’s pocket.
And I asked the person on the car how long did that take for the city to build this airport since I found the Terminal 3 has a new satellite terminal connected to it nearly complete. I was told the airport opened in 1991 and it was just 30+ years ago. I can assume each phase was done in no more than 10 years.
Now tell me if you think Heathrow can complete this expansion project in 30 years!
Now back to the 3rd runway options. I did see the option with a shorter runway but I immediately realized it was just another nonsense proposal. Airport planning is very complicated and doing that way will ruin the idea of the expansion.
Heathrow is full of widebodies and a short runway will be just for smaller planes, so very limited use. Don’t tell me you can have all narrowboides on the new runway and how long it would take to taxi to a gate in T4?
When airports expand, roads have to as well or there will be bottlenecks. I saw the video showcasing the expansion and construction proposal for the motorway and I think it works alright.
I would only comment such proposal as lack of vision and simply dumb enough. They claim to save taxpayer money but will cost more in the end of course (and then they got another thing to corrupt and finally sell)!
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Woah SYD sounds… kinda expensive to get to and from! I’m glad my local airports (YTZ and YYZ) have good transat!
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He right though doesn’t need to be moved just build over it, Like other airports have in the world.
Though Heathrow should had third runway built same time as T5 was being built.
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Glad to know many Canadian airports have good transit. Things in Australia are in total mess. Perth and Brisbane are better in terms of that.
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well not all airports… st. Johns has taxis but idk if busses go to the airport, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto all have trains to the airport but other cites have busses but i dont think they cost to much probably $10 cad and the UP express in toronto is $12-$6 cad
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Yeah, but, efficiency. He was saying to build a shorter runway, if it’s the same length but over the Motorway that’s fine
Toronto pearson is getting an upgrade, its called LIFT
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i hope the old terminal near the cargo area gets upgraded because when it rains water gets in through the windows!
infield terminal
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Not to be a wet blanket, but I think we’re veering a bit off the topic course lol. Most of this convo might live happier over in Aviation Talking Point 
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At first they weren’t so keen on it especially as they got most slots.
A Turkish military cargo C130 has crashed in Georgia with at least 20 people on board
Its some kind of mid air break up but the cause is unknown
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