Teesside International Airport drops its £6 facility fee

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• Stu says:

  27 Apr27 April 03:33

  I’m no expert but I’d say any flight departing LHR which isn’t above 2,500ft by Windsor (i.e. approximately 5.5m from the far end of 27R) is in trouble?

• Charlie says:

  27 Apr27 April 03:39

  I’m afraid you’re wrong about Windsor. To start with, it’s the 09R runway, but nevertheless, there are prescribed exemptions to restricted areas which would apply here to any aircraft which has been authorised to enter the London control zone – which is the situation on the temporary restricted airspace that is often put up around Windsor.

  • Will_ says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:12

    I live in Windsor and Thames Valley Police have said this request is more about stopping drones flying over the castle than anything else. Nothing has been mentioned about commercial aircraft at all.

    • Doug M says:

      27 Apr27 April 07:41

      Seems a much more plausible reason.

• Voltron says:

  27 Apr27 April 04:10

  Does anybody else just save all amex offers as soon as they appear rather than un-saving them? Makes it alot easier to know when a new one pop ups?

  • cinereus says:

    27 Apr27 April 06:29

    No, and it’s odd that anyone wouldn’t.

    • JohnT says:

      27 Apr27 April 07:34

      I don’t save unless likely to use it (doesn’t feel fair to those who may want it). Wish there was a way to decline an offer instead to simplify the list.

    • Simon Fisher says:

      27 Apr27 April 08:37

      Then I am odd as I save every single offer. This makes it easy to spot the ones I want when they appear and a couple of times I have accidently used an offer! We odd people should stick together.

  • Andrew says:

    27 Apr27 April 06:38

    When you save an offer you agree to your information being sold to that company – I’m not overly bothered by companies I plan to use the offer for but would rather not needlessly do it. It’s also better to leave the offers you aren’t interested in for other people as most have a signup limit.

    • meta says:

      27 Apr27 April 07:33

      If you don’t save an offer you are less likely to be shown another different offer. I had this in writing when I complained to Amex about lack of offers a few years ago. I now save all offers and I am not bothered about information being passed on. It happens all the time.

      • Rob says:

        27 Apr27 April 09:55

        Makes no sense, because the BIGGEST complaint from companies who run these offers is that people save them unnecessarily but then don’t use them, and the offer then disappears for other people who may have been able to use it.

  • John says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:30

    I used to but I can’t be bothered any more because they made the interface clunky and also there are very few of interest

• Tim says:

  27 Apr27 April 04:15

  Shame. As a young lad, those early morning flights usually ensured that I at least got to Bekynton for a soggy croissant and a watery black coffee.

  • Charlie says:

    27 Apr27 April 04:45

    Better to eat in house.

    • JDB says:

      27 Apr27 April 06:36

      Glad to here others here were at school; usually see rather dodgy jibes. Bekynton was far better than our house cook.

      • Mr(s) Entitled says:

        27 Apr27 April 07:02

        It’s hear.

        This post is brought to you by state education.

        • WaynedP says:

          27 Apr27 April 09:29

          This one made my day, thx – just didn’t have enough wifi strength in the garden to reply at the time.

          I wish I could be so sharp so early in the morning 🤣

        • Aston100 says:

          27 Apr27 April 11:20

          Brilliant from Mr(s) Entitled.

    • HV says:

      27 Apr27 April 08:56

      Ah – but if you had to leave the house for Tardy Book, you might as well swing back via Bekynton – the hash browns were much better!

  • Magic Mike says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:07

    Back in the Concorde days, divs paused while the old bird passed overhead…

    • kitten says:

      27 Apr27 April 20:33

      Still miss Concorde passing overhead. Boom !

• bafan says:

  27 Apr27 April 04:21

  I live in between Kew and Richmond. Does this mean we’ll get the traffic ALL the time? That won’t go down well.

  • Dominic Barrington says:

    27 Apr27 April 04:42

    Surely, this is really about arriving flights. In which case the decision about coming in over the Windsor area as compared to the Kew/Richmond area is down to the prevailing wind direction. How the flight path heading east will be affected is the question, but if the wind makes landing in that direction necessary, they won’t be sending the planes over Richmond – at least, so I assume (not being a pilot or ATC).

    That being said, a couple of years ago I was flying DUB/LCY and we were routed to the west and south of LHR on a cloudless day, and having a LH window seat I had a fabulous view of LHR, watching a couple of planes land in an easterly direction. We flew on east towards LCY, only to go well past it, turn around and land heading west. I can only assume that the wind over east London was doing something very different to the wind over Berkshire and west London.

  • Charlie says:

    27 Apr27 April 04:48

    Most landings are on 09L when on easterlies anyway due to the Cranford Agreement which essentially prohibits takeoffs on 09L. So in reality not much would change even if there was no exemption (which there will be – see the restricted area notice during Harry’s wedding, for example).

  • John says:

    27 Apr27 April 05:42

    I live there too, not bothered by the flights. It’s quite reassuring to hear planes at 4.30am as it means the world is still turning.

  • Lady London says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:58

    I lived exactly where you live @bafan and wanted more than anything for the up to 6 or so flights that were allowed overnight after curfew to stop. The daily one around 4.30am ways had such a rattly engine and noisy ‘gear change’ right over the house.

    I don’t think there is any more room in the regular flight schedule for them to send any more flights diverted from Windsor over your/my house instead.

    • bafan says:

      27 Apr27 April 15:09

      @LL interesting. Agreed, in the day I don’t notice but particularly pre COVID, that bank of 4-5am flights from HKG and SIN and the likes drove me up the wall!

• Will says:

  27 Apr27 April 05:14

  74 Amex offers for me – none of which are of any interest.

  • John says:

    27 Apr27 April 05:48

    75, 2 are of interest (train tickets and 1 extra avios per 2£)

• AY says:

  27 Apr27 April 05:48

  82 offers on my platinum card

• mr_jetlag says:

  27 Apr27 April 06:11

  70 offers here. Have Brook and Wilde ever sold a mattress via Amex, I wonder.

  • John says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:32

    If they have ever sold anything some people will have paid by amex surely

    • Sandra says:

      27 Apr27 April 10:49

      I bought one last year paying by Amex but at a significant discount on Brand Alley with a further discount in the last couple of days they were on there – paid less than half price. They are often discounted on Brand Alley by much more than you get with Amex. Have to say it’s comfortable!

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