Leeds Bradford: General Airport Discussion & Updates

[Jerry]

Whats the best spot to go planespotting at LBA with a car? Is there a place you can just drive up to park up and plane spot from there?

 

[Aviador]

Whats the best spot to go planespotting at LBA with a car? Is there a place you can just drive up to park up and plane spot from there?

Cemetery Road at the end of runway 32 or the Multiflight cafe accessible from the A658 on your right before the tunnel. There is a charge to park there but you will get better views across the airfield as its opposite the terminal building. Importantly there is also a cafe which serves good food.

 

[Jerry]

Cemetery Road at the end of runway 32 or the Multiflight cafe accessible from the A658 on your right before the tunnel. There is a charge to park there but you will get better views across the airfield as its opposite the terminal building. Importantly there is also a cafe which serves good food.

Ok great! Thanks!

 

[Jerry]

Cemetery Road at the end of runway 32 or the Multiflight cafe accessible from the A658 on your right before the tunnel. There is a charge to park there but you will get better views across the airfield as its opposite the terminal building. Importantly there is also a cafe which serves good food.

With the cafe car park is it pay and display or do you pay in the cafe do you know?

 

[Aviador]

It's got a barrier and a paypoint. It's cheaper than the terminal.

 

[LBA4EVER]

It's got a barrier and a paypoint. It's cheaper than the terminal.

How much is it per hr at the multiflight car park? ive always just parked up at the cemetery road spot so never checked.

 

[Finger66]

It's £2 per hour or part there of

 

[Jerry]

The Cemetary road viewpoint is really good! Though it's a bit chilly! Excellent for takeoffs so far. And unlike Cardiff I don't have to stand on a bin!

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Agree, cemetery gives best view. Plane Tree hill also very good but you need to walk a short distance to get there.

 

[LBA4EVER]

What was the reason they stopped vehicles going onto plane tree hill?

 

[a300boy]

Health and Safety I believe !

 

[Finger66]

It was when Ryanair were at capacity, there was only room for tree planes on the hill!

 

[a300boy]

Cheesy !

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Ive heard various reasons. The most likely is road safety. I say this because although the main access had been closed with a locked gate no attempt has been made to restrict access at the other entrance. Bear in mind the entrance that has been blocked gave access straight onto the road just below the brow of the hill and was unsafe. The open entrance is much better in terms of road safety and offers parking on a good surface, the only problem is it can be a little muddy on the footpath.

 

[Hendi]

The exit with the gate was leathel with the speed of cars coming over that brow of the hill!! I never knew there was another entrance i shall have to find it as it did offer good views, I just goto the cemetery end now.

 

[lbaspotter]

The main reason for gate been put in place and blocking the entrance to the Plane Tree Hill by the Farmer, was because it was costing Leeds City Council thousands of pounds to clear up all the Asbestos and rubbish that was been fly tipped by the public.

 

[Aviador]

Just to advise:

Before Christmas I added a new airport news section located above the LBA forum page. The benefits of this is news articles can be featured on the site homepage; all the news items for LBA can be featured together in one place; it creates a one stop point for LBA news; it prevents the forums generic threads from being pushed off the 1st and 2nd page of the forum.

If a news item is relevent within a specific generic thread within the forum, the preferred way of reporting the news within the thread would be to add a link.

Examples below.

Add a url link will show as:

Leeds: Council Scraps Airport Link Road Proposals

Leeds: Council Scraps Airport Link Road Proposals Traffic queuing on the A65 in Yeadon today Airport Support Members Dismayed After years of debate and public consultations Leeds City Council has abandoned plans for a £100m link road to Leeds Bradford Airport. The original plans showed three...

forums4airports.com

or

Using the forums link code will show as:

Leeds: Council scraps airport link road

 

[Jerry]

So the airport made a loss and profit at the same time??

 

[AirBingley]

Presumably with the attached news a very limited service for foreign exchange is only available at LBA currently?

Travelex being held to ransom by hackers

The foreign exchange firm has been forced to turn off all computers and switch to pen and paper.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Len Fish]

So the airport made a loss and profit at the same time??

As I understand it operational profit is the amount left after all expenses have been deducted from the total revenue of the core activity of the business. It does not include items such as interest payments or write down of assets which can then lead to a business suffering an overall loss although operationally it’s in profit.