Recent content by Bantamzen

My money is on the gulls coming back and pecking more holes in it, because there is clearly something that makes them think there's something there for them. So unless the reason they do have a go at it is figured out and resolved, they'll be back time and again.

Well as things stand they won't have 197s, so the first question begs what is the difference between 195s & 197s that would allow the latter to work the line? After that could 158s be used, or will it be a case of ensuring the specs of the new stock will allow their use, should the problem...

That's going to need to be addressed when the 15x stock starts to be withdrawn.

Who knows that they think it'll achieve, but for Netanyahu and his government it will have approximately 0.00% impact, as does most of the pro-Palestine / Anti-Israeli protesting. It's just another virtue signal for an issue that is vastly complex, and will not be solved by lots of flag waving...

There's usually 11 or so minutes between a Manchester bound service leaving the single track section, to the Chester bound one entering. So small delays can be handled, but with a possible extra couple of minutes with a stop at Cheadle it probably would need reworking slightly as even something...

It's definitely a thing at non-league clubs, I've been to several with my club for pre-season games and they've almost always asked you to book through a local app, or register via their websites. However for away league and cup games, we can almost always book via our club's site via...

When I first got mine it would work fine abroad, but almost never back at the UK border. But this seems to have rectified itself for no obvious reason.

I think it's safe to say at this point that Trump Inc's and MAGA's aims have diverged substantially. The only MAGAs left hanging onto his coat tails are those in the inner circle still making something out of the grift, and those citizens for whom Fox News is their sole source of information...

That's what is being reported. And on the BBC News feed I've linked above, they've posted a graphic of the airspace affected which includes Manchester. (Image showing a map of the area of the United Kingdom covered by Prestwick Centre, which covers Scotland and most of the North of England...

The BBC have a live feed for this breaking incident: BBC Live Feed On Latest Disruption The problem seems to be affecting airports in Scotland and down to Manchester. As mentioned above, this appears to be another NATS related problem. I think a certain CEO needs to be invited to answer to a...

I don't know about other airlines, all the Jet2 passengers affected with me had both the flight and holidays cancelled on the spot. They were quite clear that passengers should not travel by their own means, as the accommodation would be automatically cancelled and a full refund offered. So you...

I don't think it'll be particularly long before software development and data engineering will be more or less done via AI, and devs will be reskilling into machine learning and prompting. And I don't think it will end there, AI will be perfectly capable of data analysis, forecasting...

We are already in an era of compensation culture. For example a few weeks ago Manchester Airport Group got hacked, and a large amount of personal data was stolen. Within hours of the notifications going out, there were legal companies offering services to claim compensation. So that boat has...

Well I've been in a crowd of thousands at an airport to tell you it is not. The system should not be going down for hours the way it did, and as discussed this is not the first time. That's it, end of. I'm sorry to say be this post feels like it fell straight out of the press office at NATS...

What also costs vast amounts is canning tens if not hundreds of thousands of customer's flights / holidays, pay for additional accommodation & food for stranded passengers, coaches for passengers diverted & logistics costs for those passengers whose luggage stayed on the planes whilst they were...