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This airport craic

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DH1 Mackem JN said:
The mags have..
As said countless times on here..seems pretty pathetic - sat in Newcastle airport atm (I know look at me etc.) But looking around there is as much Sunderland AFC/SOL mentions as there is that lot.
Have they really got that little to shout about that they resort to something that isnt even theirs? :oops::oops:
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Up until a few years ago Sunderland were the major shareholders of the airport.

Sneech said:
I thought that too, but I was taking the piss out of the mag at work (before you start aye I actually do work with a mag ;)) about some shite, and he actually came out with 'at least we have an airport' and walked off.

As for being a pointless boast, from the above experience it's a boast that is kept under wraps until you have absolutely nothing left.
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Yes used regularly by geordies. Worked with them long enough to know.
 
Funnily enough Sunderland Airport was located in Washinghton New Town (Usworth really) and not Sunderland. By the time the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland was granted City status (and therefore included Washington) the airport was long gone.

Newcastle Airport meanwhile is in the City of Newcastle. The reason Sunderland Local Autority were given more shares is because their creative boundary for population resulted in them having a higher population than Newcastle and this entitled them to a larger share.

All of this is bollocks really; it's just a bloody airport.
 
Because of the noise and other nuisance factors, the metro airport is placed in the least desirable/expendable land available ... in current practice urban planning.
 
gipetto said:
I remember a fat geordie confronting a lad in a Sunderland top at the airport. He was waiting for his luggage at the time and the greasy skunk told him to get the fuck out of the airport as Mackems shouldn't be allowed to use it. The lad was quite slight and actually looked a bit timid but out of no where he nutted this lad, knocking him out on the conveyor belt. Everyone just watched in awe as this fat twat was dragged along the conveyor belt with both legs hanging off it. By his second pass he still hadn't come around and no one had gone to seek help. I got my luggage after that so never found out what happened to him, he might still be on there now.
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Not sure if this happened but even if it didn't just pissed myself laughing reading that!
 
McMackem said:
All very good if "Tyne & Wear" and "Newcastle" were the same thing, it's all perception I suppose, but expanding the boundaries of a local authority ever outwards is a council thing, it doesn't magically move places in and out of where they are. Woolsington was a place North of Newcastle, a committee bringing it in to encompass an airport is purely for their own political ends.

Equally Washington may be part of "City of Sunderland" for Council purposes, but neither it nor Penshaw are part of "Sunderland" the place and never can be. IMO.
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Semantics, cities grow. Woolsington is in Newcastle now, ergo Newcastle has an airport. Is Heathrow now Staines airport, not London?
 
I fly a lot through work and nearly every time I land there I always hear some Mags whinging about our adverts "its Newcastle airport, this shouldnt be allowed" :oops:
 
ighty seven said:
Couldn't give a fuck
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This.

There's literally nothing any Mag could say to rile me. I mean...just look at them.

Mr.Thunders said:
People in the east midlands also argue over the airport, well football fans, so it's not just us.
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One only has to look at the Battle of Leeds Bradford airport.

Football related aviation conflicts are a source of great anguish in our country.
 
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geordiedean said:
We don't bang on about having an airport all I ever see or hear about it is on here or from Sunderland fans. let's get one thing straight it is a North East airport used by all of the North East folk not just divided football fans it just so happens to be in Newcastle (yes wools ingrown has an NE postcode). No big deal at all

Are you implying all areas with a NE postcode are in Newcastle or have I read your post wrong?
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Damn auto correct


No was just implying it is within the City of Newcastle boundaries rather than Northumberland as ponteland is. Many on here constantly refer to the bloody place as Ponteland Airport
 
You can blame the airlines for the airport name changes. Teeside to Durham Tees Valley and East Midlands to Nottingham East Midlands. Wankers!
 
super-niall said:
Sunderland has Nissan Newcastle have an airport. I know which ones employees the most.
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Why all this nonsemse about the airport? Here are what I believe from weekly use of this sad little airport to be truths,

It does have the loud, crass,vulgar, loudmouthed, inept persona of the sort of airport that Geordies would run. Including the ridiculous faux overemphasised attempts at a Geordie accent by employees who are obviouly able to talk intelligibly.

Its flight connections for business people are pathetic. Business travellers normally have to fly to a grown up hub like Schiphol or CDG before they can start their real flight.

Its shops and bars are obscenely overpriced and the shops are stuffed with cheap quality crap.

The outbound security is an essay in incompetence.

The Frequent Flyer lounge is the only one in the parts of the world I have been in (over 40 countries) where we have to queue at the bar for a restricted two drinks per person which must be individually served by the incompetent bar staff. And I fly out of it virtually evey week. Presumably the restriction is to prevent the Geordies puking over the staff after their fifth or sixth drink.

Very little of the ancient equipment used by customers / travellers can be depended upon to work. The medeieval check in machines are a joke. The escalators are often broken, very few of the bad-old-days security screeners are ever in use. The boarding pass readers as security begins often mis-read,

The arrival of one small in-coming aircraft creates a 25 minute queue for immigration. I assume that the immigration guys are not all Geordies because they are really good.

The inbound 100 metre trip for baggage from the aircraft to the carousel often takes 30 minutes before the first bag appears. The rest takes as long as the Greggs Pies fatties need to bring it.

Most arrivals require their passengers to walk in the pissing rain and the howling wind from the plane to the so-called terminal.

To totally unnecessary parking segregation means that departing drivers have to leg it through wind and rain to even get to the terminal.

......so, if the pie chompers want to boast about their sad little excuse for an airport, maybe they should learn how to operate it.

WastingMyHate said:
Its a north east airport. Serves the north east. Thats all. Nothing very newcastle specific about it.
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Except that is staffed by brain dead pie chompers.
 
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MattyM 09/109 said:
Sunderland had an airport.

Back during WW2 there was a need for air cover to protect the mining, shipbuilding and shipping industries in the northeast so they asked newcastle if they'd mind having an aerodrome. They of course said no cos it would be dangerous and they didnt want to get hurt.

Sunderland of course stood up and said yes bring em on so the primary aerodrome became Usworth, leading to us knacking the germans at the expense of our city being one of the seven must heavily bombed of the war and a lot of what you see now, the scars of battle as it were.

Anyway, we won and the war ended then one time they tried landing a few jets on the airfield. The were of course loud as fuck so we weren't having that nonsense going on day and night, so a plan was hatched to fly em over newcastle. They weren't keen but we explained the nasty germans had gone now and some careful persuasion led them not only to accept our unwanted air traffic but actually boast about it for the next 60 years. Not bad.
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just what I thought:lol:

Mrjardine said:
Can I just ask when do they go on about the airport? I see it mentioned on here all the time but I've never come across one mag who has ever brought it up. Don't see why they would to be honest as it's a pretty pointless boast really.
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big shock that like - I certainly have along with mainline station to London - long taxi ride back that was

Friendly Fire said:
Funnily enough Sunderland Airport was located in Washinghton New Town (Usworth really) and not Sunderland. By the time the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland was granted City status (and therefore included Washington) the airport was long gone.

Newcastle Airport meanwhile is in the City of Newcastle. The reason Sunderland Local Autority were given more shares is because their creative boundary for population resulted in them having a higher population than Newcastle and this entitled them to a larger share.

All of this is bollocks really; it's just a bloody airport.
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hear feckin hear
 
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DiscoPants86 said:
Erm I think your info is out of date mate, Copenhagen airport sold their stake in 2011 or 2012 to AMP Capital. The 51% local authority ownership still remains.

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As I mentioned earlier Sunderland council has the majority ownership.
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Mchistory
 
Friendly Fire said:
Funnily enough Sunderland Airport was located in Washinghton New Town (Usworth really) and not Sunderland. By the time the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland was granted City status (and therefore included Washington) the airport was long gone.

Newcastle Airport meanwhile is in the City of Newcastle. The reason Sunderland Local Autority were given more shares is because their creative boundary for population resulted in them having a higher population than Newcastle and this entitled them to a larger share.

All of this is bollocks really; it's just a bloody airport.
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Essentially, this
 
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