Reply to: Leeds Bradford Airport

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Not been on no frills for a very long time so chose easy jet to fly to Turkey (due to timing/location and not price!)

The flight was so uncomfortable there and back that I remembered why I refused to fly with them for so long. Next time I will book the holiday around the flights rather than the other way round.

[Old Hack]

Sucker!

I travel to Paris fairly regularly and the FlyBe Disney Express is something to behold.

We've been down the Disney Paris route a few times too, but, O.M.G. is Lapland a trip to forget. I was only glad they agreed to sell alcohol...

[Pondlife]

I did a 4 hour to Finland to see ‘Santa’ with the eldest a few years back. 4 hours of 200+ kids being indulged in whatever sweets/chocolate they wanted whilst simultaneously being whipped into a frenzy by the reps promising them the moon on a stick (thus more extras bought) was enough to make me say never again. Until this year, when I have promised middle child the same trip...

Sucker!

I travel to Paris fairly regularly and the FlyBe Disney Express is something to behold.

[Old Hack]

Commuter flying doesn't bother me (shorthaul euro city stuff) and as spaceman said, I can easily sleep through take off and am often woken up when it hits the runway on landing.

One think I cannot stand is 5hrs on some chav infested valleys air charter flight. It's not a fear of crashing, it's a fear of being stuck in a closed metal box with 250 tw@ts that gets me. A few years back we went to Sharm with someone like Thomson. Jesus was that a sh1t flight. It's no way to spent a holiday. Never again.

I did a 4 hour to Finland to see ‘Santa’ with the eldest a few years back. 4 hours of 200+ kids being indulged in whatever sweets/chocolate they wanted whilst simultaneously being whipped into a frenzy by the reps promising them the moon on a stick (thus more extras bought) was enough to make me say never again. Until this year, when I have promised middle child the same trip...

[Pondlife]

Commuter flying doesn't bother me (shorthaul euro city stuff) and as spaceman said, I can easily sleep through take off and am often woken up when it hits the runway on landing.

One think I cannot stand is 5hrs on some chav infested valleys air charter flight. It's not a fear of crashing, it's a fear of being stuck in a closed metal box with 250 tw@ts that gets me. A few years back we went to Sharm with someone like Thomson. Jesus was that a sh1t flight. It's no way to spent a holiday. Never again.

[TheFaQQer]

Flying doesn't bother me much.

I've been on an aborted landing - landed the back wheels and then realised that the front wheels weren't down, so had to boot it back into the air again to have another try. Been on a flight where we had to brace on landing - didn't quite say "put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye", but that's how it felt.

After that, it's all pretty tame.

[BoredBloke]

LBA is supposed to be bad because the runway is the higest in the UK and on a slope. I can't see the vid here as youtube is blocked, but there is a fairly famous one of a plane crabbing into LBA. The Air France Concorde flight into LBA was supposed to be a good one.

[v8gaz]

Anyone been to Funchal airport. Now that's a ride!

Just the once. Never again.

[NickFitz]

I had a gig in Yeadon for a couple of months the other year. There was a spec at the Premier Inn where you could see the tailfins of arriving or departing planes through a gap between nearby houses. Tried to get a photo, but IIRC I never got a decent one, mainly because I wasn't trying that hard.

The New Inn on Cemetery Road is - or was - a good pub

[AtW]

Take the train...

WHS with bells on!!!

[lilelvis2000]

Anyone been to Funchal airport. Now that's a ride!

[Mich the Tester]

They probably had the Chuckle Brothers in t'cockpit.

To me, to you, to me, to me bit more, to you.

[Spacecadet]

The only thing I've been scared of when flying is not waking up when the trolley comes round with coffees!

I regularly fall asleep when landing and I've slept through a few take offs as well

[suityou01]

I have flown a lot, and it still scares me, but you have to get philosophical about it all.

One of my brothers hasn't flown since the 70's. We had a bad flight to Singapore, and he, literally, had to be dragged onto a plane to fly us all back. That wasn't a dandy flight either, and he hasn't flown since.

I think once you've had a properly tulipty flight, a few bumps and drops doesn't seem that scary after all. I had that flight coming back from St Lucia in the 90's, and I realised why the pope kissed the ground when he got out of an aeroplane. The cleaners were busy on the seats of that plane I can assure you.

Still made it though didn't you.

[Old Hack]

I have flown a lot, and it still scares me, but you have to get philosophical about it all.

One of my brothers hasn't flown since the 70's. We had a bad flight to Singapore, and he, literally, had to be dragged onto a plane to fly us all back. That wasn't a dandy flight either, and he hasn't flown since.

I think once you've had a properly tulipty flight, a few bumps and drops doesn't seem that scary after all. I had that flight coming back from St Lucia in the 90's, and I realised why the pope kissed the ground when he got out of an aeroplane. The cleaners were busy on the seats of that plane I can assure you.