Bristol Airport - expansion plans, car parking, public transport links - ongoing discussion

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[Ollie]

Completely irrational: Air France Flight 4590 lost only one engine. 

I think that's a bit different though Chris?

[Chris from Nailsea]

Yes, Ollie: the point we are making is that just counting the number of engines, when deciding how safe any aircraft might be, is 'completely irrational'.

[moonrakerz]

Yes, Ollie: the point we are making is that just counting the number of engines, when deciding how safe any aircraft might be, is 'completely irrational'.

..........just like not sitting in row 13 !

[Mookiemoo]

Or always sitting at the back since most planes go down nose first.

First few times i turned right to the pointy end I got jitters at the thought of going down nose first

[JayMac]

And even losing all four engines need not lead to disaster. Okay, they got them back - but I bet Capt. Moody needed new underpants after this incident: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_flight_009

His PA^▸ (Public Address) announcement takes some beating for understatement - "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress."


And revisiting the OP^▸ (Original Poster / topic starter), the first line of the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) story said, "One of the West Country's major transatlantic links is to cease as Continental Airlines discontinues flights....." Surely the West Country's only transatlantic link. 

[inspector_blakey]

I think you're forgetting the Great Western Railway's steamer service from Neyland. Oh, hang on...

[JayMac]

D*mn you blakey.... I was about to post exactly the same thing. That Brunel..... he was on to something.

[inspector_blakey]

I'm just not sure he envisaged it involving a connecting bus service up the A38, a Continental 757 and being dumped unceremoniously in the unpleasant environment that is immigration at Newark terminal C though...

[moonrakerz]

Or always sitting at the back since most planes go down nose first.

This is a long standing myth that has no basis in fact.  There is something on that subject here:-

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=5433.msg51660#msg51660

[Mookiemoo]

Or always sitting at the back since most planes go down nose first.

This is a long standing myth that has no basis in fact.  There is something on that subject here:-

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=5433.msg51660#msg51660

Thats why I said it was equally as irrational

[IanC]

B*ggeration. It's a useful flight that (although before I took it I had no idea that a 757-200 would make it all the way across the Atlantic without falling in).

Oh well, back to Heathrow and BA^» (British Airways - about) it is then...

You can go from Kairdiff Airport if you like (and don't mind having a slight wait at Dublin)

Air Lingus Cardiff -> Dublin/Cork

[smithy]

i think you can also go charter to orlando on first choice although stand to be corrected.

but having said that i would still prefer to go via london on a scheduled service rather than charter where it costs shed loads in drinks etc.

personally i prefer 4 engine planes for long haul but i can understand with the reliable turbofans these days it is not a problem for twinjet to cross atlantic,but if you have problems mid way across atlantic is it really possible to divert to an airfield in the time limit stated in previous posts??

[John R]

i think you can also go charter to orlando on first choice although stand to be corrected.

but having said that i would still prefer to go via london on a scheduled service rather than charter where it costs shed loads in drinks etc.

personally i prefer 4 engine planes for long haul but i can understand with the reliable turbofans these days it is not a problem for twinjet to cross atlantic,but if you have problems mid way across atlantic is it really possible to divert to an airfield in the time limit stated in previous posts??

Obviously an Orlando flight is aiming at a completely different market to the axed NY flight. But for the record the only scheduled flights to Orlando from London are from LGW, and the travel costs getting there will far outweigh a few drinks. But you do get the flexibility of more than 1 flight a week, and I doubt whether many seats are available for "flight only" passengers on the FC^‡(resolve) service from Bristol, particularly in the peak periods.

Still, whichever way you choose to fly to Orlando, it's nice once you get here!
       

[devon_metro]

The South East desperately needs more capacity!

How many people travel to the South East to fly abroad though?

If I suddenly I realised I had to go to New York tomorrow, i'd be heading to Heathrow.

[inspector_blakey]

But why...? Continental's EWR service is still operating from Bristol for a few months yet! Not sure if it's daily at this time of year though.