LeighW
D3 Decade
Member Since: 31 Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, AUS
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Madrilleno wrote: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.
Naming convention is that the airport's name includes the name of the community the airport serves. LeighW
The old girl is on her third engine...
* first ran a bearing (design failure in original engine)
* second had a failure of the water outlet on top of the engine (pls check yours)
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adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
Posts: 6917
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LeighW wrote: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.
Happy memories of flying into Kai Tak as start of my honeymoon - that was one busy airport. Now Golf GTI PP, 7 speed DSG.
Ex D3 and D4
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