The unions wouldn't like that.
In Dublin's case, this isn't inefficiency of the scanners, but failures of the staff. They failed an EU security audit earlier this year and as punishment must hand search an increased proportion of cabin bags. For how long I can't say.
Yeah, routes have been announced for Gdansk, Katowice, Krakow, Warsaw Chopin, Wroclaw, Bucharest, & Cluj Napoca with varying frequencies but on average 2 a week. It remains to see if they can make a go of them, but the area does have a sizeable Eastern European population so they could be popular.
Its true that LBA doesn't have good public transport connections, although options around that are starting to be explored.
Quite honestly even with Doncaster people from Sheffield were probably more likely to go to Manchester than there. This was one of the biggest flaws of DSA, it just wasn't it the right place to serve the majority of the population in the region, stuck on the far side of Doncaster. It was never going to be viable.
That wouldn't happen to be the Church Fenton, erm Leeds East International fan would it? They are so deluded they wouldn't even have a chance on the speculation threads on this forum!!
Indeed it would
Correct. Not sure of the precise mechanics, but I think it's in a similar fashion to the walk-through metal detectors alarming for a passenger with no metal on, which they do for a quota of passengers. The quota for bags has in this case been hiked up.
LBA is also hamstrung by its location. It’s on the top of a windy plateau with its runway oriented perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction. The opportunities to expand are limited and as you say it’s not especially well-connected.
It also suffers from fog and eye-watering parking charges. All transport links are risible including car!
You say hamstrung by it's location, but it is still considerably closer to the large population centres in West Yorkshire than Doncaster was for South Yorkshire. And with Jet2 being based there it was never going to be under threat from DSA, which was just in the wrong place being too close to already established airports.
Well for a starter, RAF Church Fenton didn't close until 2013, by which time Leeds Bradford had been established as a passenger airport for decades. Secondly, as pointed already there is very little in the way of access to it, less than LBA as far as roads go. So to build a brand new airport, all the road infrastructure and convince all the airlines to move there would have been widely expensive even in 2013. And also keep in mind that at this point a Leeds East airport would have been in more direct competition with DSA, which ironically could have meant the latter taking over as Yorkshire's primary airport and Church Fenton failing.
Really? I must have dreamt it when I flew with Jet2 from LBA to Paris, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Barcelona, Krakow and New York.
Here's another really?
Sorry but I need chuck my twopeneth in here.
While this may be true, they are the 3rd biggest UK airline by number of passengers flown.
Is that your measure of an airline? You do know that not everyone lives in London and the SE and that those of us who do use Jet2 are grateful that they fly where us undesirable regional types want to go.
Yes it has a jet bridge but again, how is that a measure of how important an airport is. It’s hardly an issue walking to a plane and climbing the steps and those that can’t book assistance.
If you can actually provide the figures for this then super, if not, don’t assume. LBA isn’t necessarily the backwater you’d evidently like to think it is. I live under the flightpath and it’s extremely busy everyday at all times.
I see you ignored what I put about the city breaks in post #78.
Did I say they were? Please go back and read what I said about Jet2's statistics and how it demonstrates both growth and business sense.
Again, nobody is saying they are compared to London airports or Manchester.
Prior to the pandemic LBA was handling well in excess of 4 million passengers & growing with aspirations of over 7 million in the coming years, and having flown from there many times I can confirm that not everyone does use Manchester. Not the 30 or so million Manchester handles by any means, but as with Jet2 LBA was getting to be more popular with passengers, not less.
Well that's it decided then. Because you haven't seen them. Can I assume you spend the majority of your days monitoring flights to various destinations?
Ye gods did you even bother reading anything that I put? I thought I made it quite clear that Jet2's primary business is the holiday one, unsurprising when you consider the fact that the same group has brands called 'Jet2 Holidays' & 'Jet2 City Breaks'. I wonder what services they provide, and what airline they use?
This. I've flown out of Manchester 15 times and only used an airbridge twice, when I've flown with TUI and KLM. Every time I've flown with easyJet and Ryanair I've boarded via stairs. Manchester certainly isn't a small regional airport.
May be too far from core west yorks, but perfect for North, east, south yorks and Hull. Hope Truss is telling the truth and will save it, Leeds is past its best.
If by Leeds you mean LBA, in the not too distant future work should hopefully start on a terminal expansion & improvement. Whilst plans for a brand new terminal further north on the site have been rejected, the original plans to expand remain in place. So that should start to solve some of those problems for BA.
