WTF Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, The Phantom said: Similar to a car engine warning light? Yellow just means you need to go to a garage at some point soon, probably just a sensor or something, but you should be fine. Red or flashing, stop immediately. a plane in 'limp' mode could be interesting . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, The Phantom said: Similar to a car engine warning light? Go on then, pick a light; any light........................ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 47 minutes ago, GreyWolf said: an engineering base here with a hanger big enough to do plane maintenance/overhauls. would that not create highly skilled employment Either you've not lived here very long or your memory is fading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 41 minutes ago, madmanxpilot said: Of course would make perfect sense. But would be limited to aircraft type/size though? As I recall Malta used to do a lot of DLH maintenance at one time, not sure if that's still the case though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmanxpilot Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said: But would be limited to aircraft type/size though? As I recall Malta used to do a lot of DLH maintenance at one time, not sure if that's still the case though. Nothing is insurmountable IF business case stands up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmanxpilot Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Video has emerged from last night LGW - LGW flight. Red Warning 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmanxpilot Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, WTF said: a plane in 'limp' mode could be interesting . I’ve got a few thousand ATP hours in my logbook so I know what that feels like!. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 At the end of the day, the situation is being caused by a the schedules of a busy airline that sweats its assets. If they have a day of rotations lined up that requires that aircraft to start at Gatwick AM then they don't want it marooned on the IoM overnight. Any delays that accrue during that day's operations naturally impact the last rotations and if IoM is those last rotations and just happens to have an airport that can't extend its operating hours to accommodate those delayed rotations (and it struggles to accommodate normal hours at present) then EZ aren't going to countenance coming here and risk the aircraft having to overnight. They have thousands of people to fly to and from hot, dry rocks and flying a couple of hundred to and from a cold, wet one is not going to get priority. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Rushen Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 3 hours ago, madmanxpilot said: Nothing is insurmountable IF business case stands up. Malta is actually one of easyJets heavy maintenance bases. The Manx / BRAL maintenance facility on the Isle of Man grew to have more than 200 Technical and Maintenance staff looking after over 50 aircraft. Main problems were recruiting, housing and cost of living. Operationally the weather and cost of shipping spares and materials meant that it was more expensive than a U.K. facility. The Manx government could have given more assistance but chose not to. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 3 hours ago, madmanxpilot said: Video has emerged from last night LGW - LGW flight. Red Warning before i clicked the link i thought it was going to be this 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 25 minutes ago, Major Rushen said: Malta is actually one of easyJets heavy maintenance bases. The Manx / BRAL maintenance facility on the Isle of Man grew to have more than 200 Technical and Maintenance staff looking after over 50 aircraft. Main problems were recruiting, housing and cost of living. Operationally the weather and cost of shipping spares and materials meant that it was more expensive than a U.K. facility. The Manx government could have given more assistance but chose not to. Here's more on DLH in Malta: https://www.lufthansa-technik.com/en/lufthansa-technik-malta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Non-Believer said: At the end of the day, the situation is being caused by a the schedules of a busy airline that sweats its assets. If they have a day of rotations lined up that requires that aircraft to start at Gatwick AM then they don't want it marooned on the IoM overnight. Any delays that accrue during that day's operations naturally impact the last rotations and if IoM is those last rotations and just happens to have an airport that can't extend its operating hours to accommodate those delayed rotations (and it struggles to accommodate normal hours at present) then EZ aren't going to countenance coming here and risk the aircraft having to overnight. They have thousands of people to fly to and from hot, dry rocks and flying a couple of hundred to and from a cold, wet one is not going to get priority. That may all be true, but the schedule is designed by easyJet alone, and they have six or seven years experience of trying to run these late Gatwick timings, with consistently questionable results. They know the Airport opening hours. Other small regional airports like Inverness and Jersey have similar hours, so we are not an outlier here. The current ATC issues don't really change anything. They know that delays on their network mean that it goes wrong three or four times a week, and in the past has probably been cancelled around once a week. Everytime both flights get cancelled it costs them £50k to £100k. How sustainable is that? You'd think someone at easyJet would be asking, "Hang on. Isn't there a better way of doing this?" or "Why are we doing this at all?" But they just persist. They are planning to repeat this charade in Summer 2024. You could be forgiven for thinking that the different bits of easyJet, Operations, Scheduling, Engineering, Finance, Marketing don't talk to each other, and that no-one has a view of the overall picture. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarndyce Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 15 minutes ago, Nellie said: You could be forgiven for thinking that the different bits of easyJet, Operations, Scheduling, Engineering, Finance, Marketing don't talk to each other, and that no-one has a view of the overall picture. Sounds familiar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinderella Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Airport Facebook page has post on how they are taking a strategic approach to fix current ATC issues. A long term strategic approach. Read it and weep. Oh and they have turned off comments on it too. A Friday night post and run exercise. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmanxpilot Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 IOMG Statement Finally an admission that it will take at least three years to bring staffing levels up to where they need to be. There will have to be further recruitment, and even with that the target will only be achieved if everyone does well in their training. Regarding the current situation, the words used aren’t very reassuring. ‘Some of the closure periods could be removed by August’, which really means that some of the closures periods may disappear, but it is possible that all of the closure periods will remain after August. Lets hope their confidence is justified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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