Airfield charts.

canberra wrote:

And as for fees heres an example. I worked for Servisair at Manchester airport and one of the airlines we looked after was PIA. On a Tuesday they had a 747 come in from JFK. It would then sit on a stand for 8 hours before departing to Lahore. I wonder how much that cost?????

Parking fees at Farnborough are high compared to most GA airfields but that doesn't stop some bizjet operators from flying their passengers into Heathrow then re-positoning the aircraft to Farnborough to park for a few days, the parking fees at Heathrow being even more.

TerryClark wrote:

canberra wrote:

And as for fees heres an example. I worked for Servisair at Manchester airport and one of the airlines we looked after was PIA. On a Tuesday they had a 747 come in from JFK. It would then sit on a stand for 8 hours before departing to Lahore. I wonder how much that cost?????

Parking fees at Farnborough are high compared to most GA airfields but that doesn't stop some bizjet operators from flying their passengers into Heathrow then re-positoning the aircraft to Farnborough to park for a few days, the parking fees at Heathrow being even more.

The QATARI 747SP, VP-BAT, picked up and dropped off at LHR but spent a lot of time parked up at Bournemouth

I would have thought it would have made more sense to position a bizjet at Northolt. But having said that I believe there is a quota limit at Northolt, so maybe Ive answered that question!

IanDDavidson wrote:

TerryClark wrote:

canberra wrote:

And as for fees heres an example. I worked for Servisair at Manchester airport and one of the airlines we looked after was PIA. On a Tuesday they had a 747 come in from JFK. It would then sit on a stand for 8 hours before departing to Lahore. I wonder how much that cost?????

Parking fees at Farnborough are high compared to most GA airfields but that doesn't stop some bizjet operators from flying their passengers into Heathrow then re-positoning the aircraft to Farnborough to park for a few days, the parking fees at Heathrow being even more.

The QATARI 747SP, VP-BAT, picked up and dropped off at LHR but spent a lot of time parked up at Bournemouth

In the mid 90's the "BATmobile" was parked at Stansted but positioned to Heathrow for all flights with the Principal and his family. Average monthly utilisation of the aircraft was 7-15 days per month away from base on 3-5 day trips. There was also 13 cabin crew (plus flight crew, a security team and line engineers) on permanent standby so money was not really an issue!

canberra wrote:

I would have thought it would have made more sense to position a bizjet at Northolt. But having said that I believe there is a quota limit at Northolt, so maybe Ive answered that question!

Farnborough is open 7 days per week/363 days per year 7am until 10pm weekdays and 8am - 8pm weekends/PH.
Northolt is open 8am to 8pm weekdays, sat plus PH fri 0800 - 1500; sun plus PH mon 1200 - 1900 so unless you choose your times carefully, you might park at Northolt and find your aircraft is stuck there longer than you need. They used to close early if there was no scheduled RAF flying but I'm not sure if they still do that.