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DeeGee Dec 2020 9:15am, 22 Dec 2020 20,307 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee [I always try to fly from my local airport, a KLM feeder like NWI, as 20 minutes kerb to plane is easily possible, regardless of the international destination. In fact, for the 6:10 flight HUY-AMS, they don't even open the check-in gates until 40 mins before take-off.]
DeeGee Dec 2020 9:16am, 22 Dec 2020 20,308 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee [And I reckon, with 200,000 passengers a year, it's a 'use it or lose it' sort of thing]
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear Dec 2020 10:26am, 22 Dec 2020 6,938 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear In the seventies Kidlington Airfield, now known as London Oxford Airport, was the second busiest civil airport in the UK. Home of the Oxford Air Training School which had a large fleet of light aircraft and did basic pilot training for the airlines.
Not mushroom at the Inn Dec 2020 11:50am, 22 Dec 2020 1,397 posts	Quote Pin Not mushroom at the Inn There was an article, a few years back, about a football supporter who travelled to the Liverpool home games. It was easier, cheaper and quicker for him to fly from Norwich to Amsterdam and then up to Liverpool than be bothering with the trains or motorways.
Rudolf the RedNosedGroundhog Dec 2020 4:16pm, 22 Dec 2020 1,763 posts	Quote 2 pins Rudolf the RedNosedGroundhog Making a large steel sphere can be done by making a rough sphere of concentric cones and then setting off an explosion inside it. https://youtu.be/Sk9WyEfzWPg
ChrisHB Dec 2020 4:24pm, 22 Dec 2020 20,294 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB one of the most unlikely things I've seen!
macca 53 Dec 2020 4:31pm, 22 Dec 2020 28,441 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 I always try to use MME (Teesside) and it has one of the longest runways in the country. It had connections to both LHR and AMS when I moved up here but now just has the AMS one.
ding-dong-WtnMel-on-high Dec 2020 4:43pm, 22 Dec 2020 1,896 posts	Quote Pin ding-dong-WtnMel-on-high We did look in the past at where they flew to from our local airport (Gloucestershire) but there wasn't anything suitable for any of our plans. Shame really as it would have been far preferable to negotiating the M4/M25 or trains ..
Nellers Dec 2020 6:57pm, 22 Dec 2020 37,802 posts	Quote 1 pin Nellers The existence of the Star Wars character “Willrow Hood” and the SW Convention tradition of “the running of the Hoods”. This has made happy.
AdrianB1066 Dec 2020 7:05pm, 22 Dec 2020 5,975 posts	Quote Pin AdrianB1066 That there are 574 calories in a Lidl Christmas Cake for one! 😳 Teaspoon for scale - It’s tiny.