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Re: Icelandair pulling UK routes?

clivebra...@nospamorange.net (Clive) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:39:06 UT

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Icelandair pulling UK routes?

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:14:21 UT

Seems rumours are rife..any substance?

BAA - Zero routes for EDI - Routes 2008

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:21:58 UT

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Quote-unquote

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:53:39 UT

Comments...
"They often combine routes so your convenient local departure ends up
involving a bus to or from the next city or an unscheduled stop
en-route"
Peter, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Thousands of flights scrapped by airlines

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:49:02 UT

Source: [link]
David Millward and Charles Starmer-Smith
.......More than 46 million airline seats will be cut over the next
three months as the aviation industry is engulfed by the economic
crisis....
Full Story
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Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:29:47 UT

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:27:41 -0700 (PDT), Cats <ramwa...@uk2.net>
wrote:
Sexist?
You can read and ignore..'monitor' in fact?

Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

n...@nospam.demon.co.uk (John Reid) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:18:32 UT

Cats wrote in message
<8771c78c-ca64-43de-8f7a-c6a78 e8fa...@t54g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com> :
I am rather pleased at being simultaneously ignored and monitored. I am
sure it is a privilege granted only to a very select few. It means he
can read everything I write about him being a bully and I can not suffer

Empty flights cost taxpayers £300 per seat

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:31:23 UT

Source: [link]
David Leask
TAXPAYERS are being forced to pay out more than £300 a seat for air
routes with almost no passengers and "zilch" economic benefits,
Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Full Story
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Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

ramwa...@uk2.net (Cats) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:27:41 UT

Only if they are female, and so far as I know you are Joseph not
Josephine.
Go and check the definitions of ignore and monitor and you will find
they are incompatible.

BA to increase its flights from Heathrow to Dubai from 14 to 20 flights a week from March 29

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:14:52 UT

Source: [link]
Route watch: new and cancelled flight routes
A round-up of the latest new and discontinued flight routes from
across the United Kingdom.
Full Story..
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Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:02:28 UT

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:56:21 -0700 (PDT), Cats <ramwa...@uk2.net>
wrote:
OAPs can multi-task... :-)

Re: Ryanair Carry On

jw.sc...@btinternet.com (Big Jack) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:44:38 UT

Having recently returned from both Charleois and Beuvais. The one bag
rule is enforced by the Security personnel. Pepople are sent back to
check in to check bags at 25EUR a whip. Nice extra cash for the
airline.No doubt they are on some sort of commison basis from RYR. STN
is particulary good at both size and weight enforcement.

Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

ramwa...@uk2.net (Cats) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:56:21 UT

<snip>
It is completely impossible to monitor something you are ignoring.

Re: Can you guess what it is yet....

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:19:33 UT

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:54:26 +0100, "Clive"
The perils of crossposting it seems entraps even the wary?
How many other EDI guys have been snared the same way?

Re: BA pulling out of Scotland

jcurr...@googlemail.com (Joe Curry) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:17:10 UT

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:35:30 +0100, "Clive"
In your biased bigoted opinion? The agenda in here has nothing to do
with inter-city nor racial segration..it's in your mind and obviously
nothing is going to shift it.
If they try to change the agenda - which they quite often do?
Like this:?.... Referring to BAA's September traffic figures..