Greetings from BHX - SEN run is go!

Greetings from (quiet) Birmingham Airport.

And the Senator Run.... Is go.

Whilst I may not be a SEN yet, I still am a BMI Gold - which means I'm getting tiddly on Vodka and cola.

More later.... If I find a working hotspot...



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BHX: Road scheme improvement agreed - extended runway on the way.

The problem with being the UK's 6th largest airport are numerous. Apart from being stuck between two major hubs (Manchester to the top, London below) and a major cargo hub to the right (EMA), there is the problem of the runway at Birmingham Airport.

Namely, it's a postage stamp and it's not really suitable for very long haul services to take off from.

Well the expansion of the runway has taken a step closer with a road improvement scheme that will divert the A45, improve access to the train station, and if all goes acording to plan - allow an upgrade of the single runway that exists at BHX.

Centro (The local travel agency)  has ponied up £10.7M already. The Regional Growth fund has funnelled an extra £15.4m to the project, leaving a comparatively small amount £7m for the airport to fund for the infrastructure costs.

Subject to consulatiations and completions of work, Birmingham Airport is hopeful the extension would be operational by 2014.

Gold Run 2: Of all the converluted systems Securitry Theatre systems.....

Greetings from Birmingham Airport (I'm not allowed to call it Birmingham International Airport or Tosshole International any more alas).

Check in was fine and dandy, but the new security theatre systems they have seem to always trip when a camera goes through, which means it has to go through a manual wipethrough.

And it gets better as they X-Rayed the contents of my bag twice.

Now that's fine but it seems every time I go through this hell-hole, the x-ray always picks it up. Which again is fine.

Unless you have the slothlest secuirty staff who can't be bothered to attend to the bag for 2 minutes.

And people wonder why I'm coming to prefer Heathrow over this joyless tosshole.

Not much more from me today, as I'm going to be sans interwebs for a bit until I get to the lounge at Dublin Tommorow morning.

More musings later!