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Dave Reid

@DaveReidReading

Determined to get Heathrow and Gatwick to stop the blatant fiddling of airline sustainability results, with mathematically-impossible Fly Quiet and ANPT tables.

Joined May 2009
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Hi @Gatwick_Airport Can you tell us what "Final rank" means in your interactive Quarterly and Annual Airline Noise Performance Tables at gatwickairport.com/company/r…? It’s additional to the benchmark rankings, no explanation on your Methodology page. Needed for a Wikipedia article.
Performance calculated/measured for 3 benchmarks: QC/seat, CDA compliance and Track-keeping, and airlines ranked from best to worst for each. Additional "Final rank" column with no details of what it is, what it's for or how it's derived.

ALT Performance calculated/measured for 3 benchmarks: QC/seat, CDA compliance and Track-keeping, and airlines ranked from best to worst for each. Additional "Final rank" column with no details of what it is, what it's for or how it's derived.

Methodology page describes how the 3 benchmarks are calculated/measured, but no reference whatsoever to the mysterious 4th "Final rank" column.

ALT Methodology page describes how the 3 benchmarks are calculated/measured, but no reference whatsoever to the mysterious 4th "Final rank" column.

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One week on, and not a word from @Gatwick_Airport. If that's not a tacit admission that they make stuff up with no basis, I don't know what is. The public aren't stupid. @VINCIAirports, do all your airports fabricate sustainability stats, or just Gatwick? Why do you allow it?
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Good to see common sense has prevailed at @Gatwick_Airport and they have concluded that the unexplained and fabricated "Final rank" column did their credibility no good at all. Needless to say, no acknowledgement of the backtrack, preferring just to pretend it never existed.
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25 years ago, I was working a couple of days a week doing IT in a Bristol call-centre. On the phones were mostly youngsters. I went in the day after 9/11 and a lad asked me what would change. All I could say was "the world will never be the same again". Trite, but oh so true.
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Replying to @JockineseBear @thinkdefence @DufferAlert
Bless.
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Surprise, surprise, guess who ran out of sensible arguments first? Classic troll behaviour.
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Not so much @Shutterstock as laughing stock. How on earth did this shoddy Photoshopped nonsense get past your editors? Clue: An Airbus A319 doesn't have a tailwheel. 😀
British Airways Airbus A319 apparently fitted with a tailwheel !

ALT British Airways Airbus A319 apparently fitted with a tailwheel !

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In another cynical "f*ck you" to stakeholders, @HeathrowAirport has disabled its WebTrak flight tracker's ability to display individual flight tracks. Spot the difference The now removed button allowed us to see a track "compared to our established flight paths". Not any more.
WebTrak with the ability to display individual flight tracks removed.

ALT WebTrak with the ability to display individual flight tracks removed.

WebTrak before the ability to display individual flight tracks was removed.

ALT WebTrak before the ability to display individual flight tracks was removed.

WebTrak displaying an individual aircraft track before the ability to do this was removed.

ALT WebTrak displaying an individual aircraft track before the ability to do this was removed.

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And @HeathrowAirport's website still points to the disabled facility: heathrow.com/company/local-c…
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Yet another fabulous weekend at @wokinghamfest ! Great work by everyone involved, can't wait for next year. 😀
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Israeli Air Force airstrike on a pair of Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcats.
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Six years old, and you can't find a photo of it. Why is that, @flightradar24 ? Ruud would not be impressed. 😀
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Two more weeks to catch @CamilleUcan and co-conspirators in her hilarious (and deliciously rude) "Three Hens in a Boat" (well OK, in a skiff) at the equally wonderful @ReadingRep.
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Any volunteers to teach our vexatious Waltonites a bit of aircraft recognition?
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"Violation upon violation by @HeathrowRunways @flysrilankan over @waltononthames. Webtrak will show this on track." Yawn. Yes - WebTrak/NATS, FlightRadar24, FlightAware, independent monitoring and every other tracker - except for the one in Walton-on-Thames's parallel universe.
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Holidaying in Walton-on-Thames? Be sure to take your phrasebook. Waltonian: @Qantas tracking violation over @waltononthames exploiting a gap in noise monitoring Translation: @Qantas bang on track, nowhere near @waltononthames, directly overflying the Chertsey noise monitor
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From @HeathrowAirport's latest Noise Action Plan: "Programmes such as Fly Quiet have been very effective at encouraging airlines to work with us on improving their noise and flight track performance" Sorry Heathrow, but you can't fiddle the stats and then claim that they work.
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Replying to @DaveReidReading @Grumpalot1 @HeathrowRunways @SingaporeAir @etihad
More nonsense tonight from our delusional friend. "@SingaporeAir vectored off SID barely scraping 4000 feet". No, not vectored off the SID, in fact left it at over 5000 feet. Could someone buy the lady a dictionary for Christmas so that she can look up the word "credibility" ?
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"This flight was over @waltononthames certainly not over Weybridge as Webtrak shows it!" And as independent monitoring, FlightRadar24, FlightAware and every other tracker show it ... Didn't your parents teach you not to tell lies?
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So will @HeathrowAirport's new NAP see an end to its cynical manipulation of the sustainability stats, where the worst airline for Noise Quota (Korean Air), that the rules give 0 points, instead gets awarded nearly one-third of the maximum possible ? I'm not holding my breath ..
Airline in top place for Quota Count (BA shorthaul) gets 68.5 points. Airline in bottom place (Korean) should get 0 points, but is awarded 21.8

ALT Airline in top place for Quota Count (BA shorthaul) gets 68.5 points. Airline in bottom place (Korean) should get 0 points, but is awarded 21.8

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