Runway in Portgual

[wallacej]

Portugal

A special airport -- The airport's runway with a length of 2781 meters, which 1000 meters of the runway is supported by 180 pillars, each pillar 50 meters height (about 17 floors), surprisingly, the runway design are for B-747

Look at the cars parked below the runway

More at Life is not a game to lose!: New airport runway in Portugal

 

[littl_flier]

Geez, one wouldn't want to slide off the runway. :shock:

 

[straitman]

Portugal

A special airport -- The airport's runway with a length of 2781 meters, which 1000 meters of the runway is supported by 180 pillars, each pillar 50 meters height (about 17 floors), surprisingly, the runway design are for B-747

Look at the cars parked below the runway

More at Life is not a game to lose!: New airport runway in Portugal

Impressive.

 

[straitman]

Geez, one wouldn't want to slide off the runway. :shock:

... or any other runway for that matter :!:

 

[Evan]

Makes a different from lets build an island to put an airport on.... like Osaka, the new Kita Kyushu etc.
Interesting airport for sure.... not sure i will get to use it.
E

 

[simongr]

Which airport in Portugal is it?

 

[Arthur Hodgson]

Which airport in Portugal is it?

Madeira (FNC), I believe. Not that new, really.

http://www.aerlines.nl/issue_27/27_Madeira_Knol.pdf

 

[Reggie]

Geez, one wouldn't want to slide off the runway. :shock:

You would hope that the pilots had a good night sleep the night before.:-|

 

[littl_flier]

Madeira (FNC), I believe. Not that new, really.

http://www.aerlines.nl/issue_27/27_Madeira_Knol.pdf

Well there you go. BA have a codeshare service with GB airways most days from LGW. Maybe those who are a little adventurous and have some sectors up there sleeve on the next DONEX can report back. (and hope the pilots have had a good rest )

 

[Reggie]

Well there you go. BA have a codeshare service with GB airways most days from LGW. Maybe those who are a little adventurous and have some sectors up there sleeve on the next DONEX can report back. (and hope the pilots have had a good rest )

I am pretty sure you can't use codeshares on *ONEX's, unless there has been a rule change.

 

[littl_flier]

I am pretty sure you can't use codeshares on *ONEX's, unless there has been a rule change.

Yeah, I'm not sure how it'll work with the recent sell off of GB airways but GB used to be similar to Qantaslink.

The OW website seems to indicate that they are still OW affiliates but who knows. :?:

oneworld Airline Affiliates

• BA CityFlyer: BA Cityflyer is a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways and operates all UK and European services to and from London City airport.
• Comair: British Airways' Southern African franchisee, operating services with a BA flight prefix, with aircraft painted in BA colours and with crew wearing BA uniforms. It provides Club and Traveller (business and economy class) services to BA standards. British Airways itself owns an 18.3 per cent stake in Comair. It operates around 50 flights a day, using mainly Boeing 737s, serving Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth in South Africa and four points in neighbouring Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its own website is www.comair.co.za
• GB Airways: An independent carrier, wholly owned by the Bland Group. It flies as a franchisee of British Airways. Its services all operate with a BA flight prefix, its aircraft are painted in BA colours and its crew wear BA uniform. They offer Club Europe and Euro Traveller (business and economy class) services to BA standards. It operates around 30 departures a day with a fleet of Airbus A320 family aircraft from London Gatwick and Heathrow and Manchester to 29 destinations in the Iberian Peninsula, France, North Africa, the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean. Its own website is www.gbairways.com

 

[moa999]

Being GB Air, one would have to be quick, after Mar 29 need to take an LCC.
(GB Airways have sold themselves to Easyjet)

Remembered the photos from a few years ago.
In actual fact runway was completed in 2003
Madeira Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is also an island that is well off the coast of Portugal and actually in line with and closer to Morocco in Africa

 

[Reggie]

Yeah, I'm not sure how it'll work with the recent sell off of GB airways but GB used to be similar to Qantaslink.

The OW website seems to indicate that they are still OW affiliates but who knows. :?:

The GB website still states that they are a member of oneworld. However as they are a franchisee of BA using BA prefixes for all their flight numbers, it isn't really a codeshare. Just like Qantaslink flights are codeshared.

 

[Reggie]

Yeah, I'm not sure how it'll work with the recent sell off of GB airways but GB used to be similar to Qantaslink.

The OW website seems to indicate that they are still OW affiliates but who knows. :?:

GB Airways Franchise cancelled by BA effictive of March

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