Hi
Something which has bugged me for some time is why certain flights are very late in being shown with an arrival time . Was meeting a relative from Malaga today with Brittania , due 1435 , left house at 1420 with nothing showing on Ceefax but flight arrived 1432 . Who notifies Ceefax ? there was also no time given for the EXS ex Barcelona ( due 1430 , was early ) .

BTW , the Malaga flight was a 757 in old style geriatric woman livery , did not think there was any of these around .
Think this miht be the winter GLA based aircraft , did not have the camera .

Stanley

Stanley

I look after the BAA system that updates the screens in the terminal and ceefax/teletex and after reading your remarks I checked things out for you.

The flight had an estimated arrival time of 1420hrs but this did not populate the ceefax screens due to the outstation not providing whats known as a departure message. This departure message would update ceefax and allow the status of the flight to change from a "Pending"state to an "Airborne from previous" which is the activation message for our screens.



I hope this helps to explain what happened.

Some interesting departures listed on the EDI departures screen this afternoon:

14.30 BY999T MANSTON-KENT AND LANZAROTE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR AIRLINE
14.30 BAW888T BARCELONA AND ACAPULCO
14.30 BAW1234 BARCELONA AND ACAPULCO
14.30 BMA999T GLASGOW AND COPENHAGEN
14.30 BMA1234 GLASGOW AND COPENHAGEN
14.30 BY1234 MANSTON-KENT AND LANZAROTE PLEASE CONTACT YOUR AIRLINE
14.30 EIN999T DUBLIN AND ORLANDO MCO
14.30 EI1234 DUBLIN AND ORLANDO MCO

I'm assuming it's another test?