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It seems like we're getting some kinda fun routings for AWC services from Glasgow during this periods: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/313334.aspx Until the 19th March, we're getting AWC services operating Glasgow Central to Carlisle via Dumfries 1tp2h, mostly timetabled at...

They don't, no, but they won't want to be doing closures just after opening, as that'll be even worse PR than opening towards the end of the window previously announced.

They're another low cost carrier. Nothing particularly notable about them, IMO? Bit little in the way of legroom from my point-of-view, but they're far from the only LCC in that position. (And I'm tall but I'm not that tall.) Though a fair bit of fuel costs has historically been heavily hedged...

I swear I saw one at some point in 2019, albeit during disruption. Not sure where it was going, or if it was in service!

Yes, but only £80 return for flights to Berlin to visit family in September. Cheap enough that I wouldn't be overly concerned by simply not taking them, even ignoring the currently increased flexibility, but also suspect it'll be okay then, and got the booking done while they're cheap.

Here's an NTSB study on the Emergency Evacuation of Commercial Airplanes, including (page 53): And okay, only a third of evacuations in that study were planned evacuations, but it's still far from unheard of. …where: Briefing passengers is good practice, not least because it adds to...

This. It vastly depends on the timeframe. Even with an all-engines-out situation at cruise altitude, most aircraft will have around 10 to 20 minutes before they land; in cases where things go wrong on approach/departure, obviously there's unlikely to be any further briefing. And in plenty of...

It is common in cases where the cabin crew are expecting an emergency landing for them to go through every single person and make sure they know what brace position they should be taking when the order comes. Often at the times the riskiest part of an emergency landing (on a runway! outlanding...

They've got in trouble about this before; it's a bit borderline, given you can debate whether those seated nearest fully understand how to open the doors, even with the briefing, when they haven't been able to see the doors during the briefing. As I've noted somewhere earlier in this thread...

Ah, so this makes a lot of sense as to why it's so labour heavy to crew from one end. Which leads to the question, if QF1 is using London crews for the ex-UK leg, what stops BA from having Australian crews? Presumably in part because Qantas operate more flights to London, whereas the BA flights...

Vaguely related: I've always been surprised that BA nowadays (or rather, in The Before Times) only operate a single daily LHR-SYD service, given it is a route with a fair bit of custom as I understand. Too much of the market being taken up by Qantas and Emirates and the like?

I'm surprised Jet2 combining Glasgow and Edinburgh, given quite how close they are and the relatively quick travel time to Edinburgh Airport from Strathclyde given it is west of the city. Am kinda surprised it's not more economical to bus people from Glasgow to Edinburgh; I guess some of it is...

Note that Boeing wasn't planning a further 737 generation aircraft, but airlines practically demanded it as a response to Airbus announcing the A320neo. Airlines heavily invested in the 737 family didn't want the delay (yet alone the retraining/tooling required) to wait for a 737 replacement to...

For all the discussion of seating here, as someone who spent the past year and a half living near Westferry, I'll point out that being unable to board during the morning rush hour was a thing that did happen. Having more space for standees would be nothing but good, in my book. The DLR has in...

Also remember that the EMR order is a follow-on order on a commercial basis; the DfT IEP order is expensive in part because all of the R&D costs are amoritized across it, and adding further differences to the units would only add to the complexity and cost. The IEP trains had to follow a...

If anywhere will see 140mph running on classic lines, it's the GWML (where the modernisation programme was meant to achieve much of the work needed for 140mph running). I expect some of the ECML getting them was just ordering a single train type.

I believe those statements are true versus any other sort of bus; trams are inherently more efficient, but trolleybuses do significantly win out versus battery buses (and they save a lot of weight versus carrying a large battery, with inevitable savings on rolling resistance and resultant...

Ah, that's true. By the time I got a driving license I wasn't living on the east coast any more, so I've rarely had any reason to drive down the A1. Was also struggling a bit to think about where it would be sensible for an outsize load to cross west, but I guess I saw it far enough south it...

Huh, it must've been that PC that I drove past on my way north (London to Glasgow) on Monday night parked up somewhere on the A1 if my memory's right. I remember driving past some IC liveried vehicle parked up by the dual carriageway which I thought was a Class 43 but wasn't sure! Rather...

How much would it cost to build a terminal, dredge out appropriate channels, etc.? What does the business case look like for spending money on that? Especially when it disproportionately affects those already well-off, there's many reasons why it's unlikely to be a priority.