Member Since: 13 Oct 2014
Location: Nottingham
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"London" Airports rant
Since when has Southend been near London? It's 'London'-Southend airport. It's 42 miles away.
Same goes for 'London'-Stansted (35 miles) and 'London'-Luton (35 miles).
Bad enough with Heathrow (14 miles) and Gatwick (28 miles), they're not exactly London either.
Ought to be taken to task under the Trades Descriptions Act.
Mind you, Ryanair, Wizzair and Blue air list "Paris" Beauvais airport. That's a whopping 56 miles away.There are two rules for success,
1. Never tell everything you know.
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4th Jul 2019 12:23 pm
robpenrose
Member Since: 12 Jan 2016
Location: Surrey / SW London
Posts: 2138
Where would you like them to be? Fill in the Thames and stick a runway in?
You can fly from City if Heathrow is too far. Most major city airports and not in the center of the City.
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4th Jul 2019 12:37 pm
Madrilleno
Member Since: 13 Oct 2014
Location: Nottingham
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No, I would like them not to be prefixed "London" because they aren't.There are two rules for success,
1. Never tell everything you know.
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4th Jul 2019 12:39 pm
highlands
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Fairly sure there was a Ryanair destination airport in the Nordics that didn't even land in the same country as the city it was purported to be for.Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
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4th Jul 2019 12:40 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
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Back in the day Ryanair used to say Helsinki but the airport they used was Tampere... 180 km away.
They also used to state “Brussels” and meant CRL (Charleroi) instead of BRU (Zaventem).
4th Jul 2019 1:06 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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FWIW the distance from Tokyo to Narita (NRT) is 70-ish km and everyone is clear that they still mean Tokyo even though there is also Haneda (HND) downtown.
Similarly there is GMP and ICN in Seoul.
I liked the over the roof tops approach to the old Hong Kong airport (Kai tak)
4th Jul 2019 1:15 pm
RRSTDV8
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"London Oxford Airport" is neither in London nor Oxford. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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4th Jul 2019 1:40 pm
leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 4314
Well LBA is not in Bradford city or even in the Bradford council area but is in Leeds LS27.
Admittedly it is about 9 miles to Bradford city centre and about 7 miles from Leeds centre. Nor does it have a train link to either Leeds or Bradford.
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4th Jul 2019 1:42 pm
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"LONDON East Midlands Airport" here we come. High speed rail link - HS2 will run next to it so should be a perfectly acceptable name according to the convention.There are two rules for success,
1. Never tell everything you know.
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4th Jul 2019 3:05 pm
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
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London Midland trains used to have the same effct on me, given 95% of its services were around the west midlands, just a couple of trains went down to london via Northampton, but it seems that its not important if it doesnt have "london" in the name.
rant over
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4th Jul 2019 4:28 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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I have Brum airport about 18 miles away or East Midlands about 55 miles away. Due to EM being tiny their furthest carpark is about 400m away from terminal and they are not manned by who couldn’t give a which carousel they may, or may not, throw your cases on when they can be ar$ed to get off their lazy ar$es and do their job.....
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Door-to-door is quicker from East Mids and parking is cheaper, although I didn’t have to pay often at BHX I rather would than rely on the useless who couldn’t give a at BHX ......
4th Jul 2019 7:59 pm
JonM
Member Since: 24 May 2012
Location: North Yorkshire
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leeds wrote:
Well LBA is not in Bradford city or even in the Bradford council area but is in Leeds LS27.
Admittedly it is about 9 miles to Bradford city centre and about 7 miles from Leeds centre. Nor does it have a train link to either Leeds or Bradford.
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4th Jul 2019 8:13 pm
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kajtzu wrote:
FWIW the distance from Tokyo to Narita (NRT) is 70-ish km and everyone is clear that they still mean Tokyo even though there is also Haneda (HND) downtown.
Similarly there is GMP and ICN in Seoul.
I liked the over the roof tops approach to the old Hong Kong airport (Kai tak)
And you could look into the apartments on a final approach!
Also the drop off into Kowloon Bay on a south east departure from the old Kai Tak... You know it was extended so much into the bay that if you skidded off the runway it would have required deep sea divers to recover everything.LeighW
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