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• Agenda for Public KIACC meeting
• Game-changer - Manston to stop being an airport
• Blackballed
• KLM-Manston: analysis
• KLM-Manston: reactions
• KLM-Manston: news reports
• No sign of Prestwick airport sale
• Hurrah! A Public Meeting at Manston!
• Charles Buchanan's brave face
• Draft Aviation Policy - have your say
• BBC Radio Kent airport debate in Rochester
• Infratil Airports Europe; right ingredients wrong outcome
• Thoughts from the think tanks
• All aboard the 4.20am flight to Amsterdam?
• Fan mail
• Airport Working Party: unprepared
• A reader writes
• Infratil is selling Manston, but wants to buy Stansted. Why?
• Rival group enters battle for Stansted airport
• KCC's contribution, for what it's worth
• Night Flights vote - political views
• Night Flights vote - press coverage
• Night Flights vote
• Thursday 24th May
• Crunch vote on Manston night flights coming soon
• Location matters more than night flights
• No Nightie Flights!
• TDC oppose Manston Airport night flights
• Sparks fly over AWP fiasco
• Thanet Airport Working Party 4th April
• Herne Bay people power
• Silencing the politicians
• Thanet rejects Manston night flights
• Consultation results
• Planning permission for Manston
• Manston closure full of surprises
• BAWC
• Airport CEOs upbeat
• Reality hits home, Infratil leave town
• Manston Pickle
• Manston's imaginary friends
• Night flight blight triggers house price crash
• Funds
• CPRE response to the public consultation
• You say (35)
• You say (34)
• You say (33)
• Today's the day!
• Upping the ante
• You say... what you think
• You say (32)
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• You say (30)
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• You say (27)
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• You say (25)
• You say (24)
• You say (23)
• Mixed reaction to consultation
• Bus day in Ramsgate
• SNAFU at TDC Public Consultation
• Caption competition
• The antidote to night flights - all aboard!
• Elephant in the room: the biggest lies hide in plain sight
• You say (22)
• You say (21)
• You say (20)
• You say (19)
• You say (18)
• You say (17)
• You say (16)
• Open letter, simple question
• You say (15)
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• You say (13)
• You say (12)
• You say (11)
• You say (10)
• You say (9)
• You say (8)
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• You say (3)
• You say (2)
• You say (1)
• Cut out the middleman
• Tannoyance
• Groupthink
• Infratil's ex-CEO dies
• At last, Herne Bay gets a mention
• Night Flights? No thanks!
• Night Flights? No thanks - and here's why...
• Public consultation starts on Manston's night flying proposal
• Tit for tat at TDC
• Manston in damage limitation mode
• The nasty niceties of planning
• Dream Council
• Laura Sandys gets political
• Number one fan
• Olympic meddling
• Knight vision
• Study casts doubt on night flight benefits
• CPRE aren't impressed
• Plane vs Birds.
• Council's consultation details
• Report highlights night flights hype
• Council breaks its silence
• Airport and Council to break silence
• Council Report Pans Night Flights Proposal
• Night Flights are for Freight
• Location, Location, Location
• Employment - when will it ever grow?
• Noise Nuisance Under-stated
• York Aviation: enthusiastic number-crunchers
• Planning Problems
• Possible hitch at TDC
• Night flights do not mean jobs, says report
• 44 flights a night at Manston?
• Pssst - want to buy an airport?
• TDC's update on night-time flying proposal
• Flybe, Manston, night flights and the truth
• KCC says Manston is the short term answer to airport shortage
• Doing battle with a naked Emperor
• Estuary Airport - hot potato, fig leaf, or white elephant?
• Formal consultation on UK aviation
• Boris shoots own foot in sympathy
• Cameron shoots everybody in the foot, himself first
• More airport expansion
• Manston villagers only got half the story
• CAA: exemplary regulator or lickspittle lackey?
• Trevor wants a Parkway
• Man moves house, Manston issues press release
• CPRE says night flights at Manston will not boost business
• CAA wants more runways
• Foley's folly
• David Foley backs night flights
• The Red Sparrows - British daftness at its finest
• That was then...
• Boris Island must never be able to get off the ground
• Threat to night time flights bid
• Seasoned greetings...
• Flybe quit Manston: analysis
• Flybe quit Manston
• Clive Hart, night flights and pre-election pledges
• Quick question
• Thanet the Movie: Welcome to the Casting Couch
• Manston to stop fuelling Iran Air: pure coincidence?
• Manston's Hall of Shame
• Being hung might be the best outcome
• Life under the flight path: 2
• Thanet's favourite map
• Life under the flight path
• Manston out-performed by a small hole in the ground
• Yanks for the memory
• Infratil selling Prestwick... Manston next?
• Nethercourt Residents...
• Manston winces in the glare of publicity
• New hub airport for the south-east
• Desperate times call for desperate customers
• Today's the Day!
• Great public speaking
• Good Luck!
• NOT the longest runway
• Sandy Ezekiel is innocent
• Night Flights: Public Meeting
• What it’s like living with City Airport
• Manston: there's no fine print to read
• Worst Thanet movie ever...
• Paul Carter: Emperor of Kent
• Sanctions busting at Manston
• Urgent need for environmental assessment
• Campaigners anger at bid to introduce night flights
• Support from CPRE Protect Kent
• Flybe says UK's domestic air travel boom is over
• Labour denies night flight U-turn
• Thanet Movies
• Manston Parish Council: night flights meeting
• Spread the word!
• Manston: "Airports could go out of business"
• How we all love this map...
• Number-crunching
• Manston's 2012 schedule
• Manston Aircraft Noise Maps
• "Night flights would boost business in Thanet" says airport
• Manston makes night-time submission
• Plans for Manston Airport night flights
• See the future, then decide
• The Night Flight Proposals 2011
• Oh. There goes another one.
• Woken in the small hours, 25th October
• Night Flight proposals to be outlined on Radio Kent 28th October 11am
• Clown makes a serious point
• That KIACC meeting, in a nutshell
• Does Manston already have a night flight schedule?
• KIACC 21st October
• KIACC meeting
• TDC has lost control of Manston
• Psst! Want to buy an airport?
• Outlook gets gloomier for Infratil
• Q: What DOESN'T connect George Best, John Lennon and Robin Hood?
• Noise monitoring at Manston Airport
• CPRE Protect Kent
• Flybe plummets
• Woken in the small hours, 5th October
• John Stewart, UK’s “most effective environmentalist” barred from entering US
• Manston's dreams and nightmares
• Manston dragging its heels over night flights
• Infratil complaints
• Liberty Hall
• Green vs Greed
• Sleep tight before the night flights bite
• Sleep-shattering noise? Grand. Fine.
• Fly over Ramsgate all you want. Whatever.
• Manston swept away
• Iran Air at Manston
• Glasgow kiss-off
• Blimey! A politician talking sense!
• Wouldn't it be a huge boost for the local tourist industry if Manston could actually develop a viable passenger business?
• What about the hundreds of indirect jobs the airport will create?
• Is it true that every 1 million passengers creates 1,000 jobs?
• Cllr David Green writes:
• Surely we can trust Infratil’s numbers?
• If it’s in the Master Plan, it must be right. Right?
• Over 2,000 airport jobs if Manston gets night flights - isn't that great?
• Consultation news
• Straight from the horse's orifice...
• It's all kicking off at Lydd...
• A reader writes (to Bob)
• Needle and threat
• Open and Shut Basket Case 1
• Open and Shut Basket Case 2
• Sticky numbers
• A reader writes
• The "cheap flights" era is over
• It's that mad airport plan. Again!
• (A) Fair Tax On Flying
• Big Apple pie in the sky
• Job losses at Manston Airport
• Woken in the small hours, 10th July
• Air Passenger Duty
• Why Steer Davies Gleave?
• Airport Working Party neutered?
• Motionless
• Transatlantic plans for Manston
• Caption Competition
• Night Flights: too hot to handle?
• Trickle of funding for Manston Parkway
• Woken in the small hours, 1st July
• MAG quits KIACC as noise worries are 'ignored'
• Infratil Annual Results 2011
• Manston unmonitored
• TDC seeks Regeneration chief. GSOH essential.
• Talks continue over airport job losses
• Iran Air: US sanctions in June 2011
• Increasing interest in Southend Airport
• EasyJet commits to Southend Airport
• Council reveals unsuccessful bid to develop Manston services
• Manston calls for 'congestion charge' on bigger airports
• Manston boss claims it wasn't a "sweetener"
• £600k airport 'sweetener'
• Air Anon at Manston
• Motion calls for a policy on scheduled night flights
• Sound-activated video recording
• A closer look at that bid
• Yet another job forecast
• KCC's empty begging bowl
• Protesters claim research is misleading
• In Manston, no one can hear you scream...
• Belfast route opens
• Where do Manston's job forecasts come from?
• Manston's Master Plan
• Airport campaigner's anger over 'secret' bid
• Readers write
• Manston's job forecasts
• Airport expansion could bring 3,500 jobs
• Boris confined to London!
• Prestwick: Coming to the end of the runway?
• BBC: Biased Broadcast Coverage?
• Another bid for Night Flights
• Manston boss and KCC make bid to government for east Kent regeneration cash
• Virginia
• Ramsgate chooses Beauty not Blues
• Manston is still a hole in the ground
• Whoops Apocalypse!
• Labour's red letter day at expense of Tories
• Night flights stance 'clinched seats'
• Advisory group recommend no night flights at airport
• Sustainable Aviation
• Nothing to smile about
• Manchester "unsustainable". Belfast "attractive"?
• Dont rely on Manston
• Manston boss backs campaign for fair air fuel
• Oympics to generate "hundreds more flights"
• We love Keith Taylor...
• Decision nears on runway waste plan
• Biggin Hill. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.
• The Parkway Station fiasco develops
• New station 'would help airport lift off'
• TDC and Infratil: "no contact"
• Boris Johnson still bonkers
• TDC Airport Working Party
• Airport gets new radar system - to prevent mistakes
• Thales supplies surveillance radars to Kent airport
• Yet another daft airport plan
• Bureau Veritas report examined
• More questions than answers
• 'Kiss of death' for town
• Nostrildamus (D)
• Nostrildamus (F)
• Buchanan in court, out of order
• Consultation process
• Policy on night-time flying needs more detailed review
• Cargolux fined. Again.
• Bureau Veritas request
• Plans for night flights on hold
• Manston discussion put back
• Our Children Speak...
• Planning permission needed for Manston
• Video snippets from RTC 25th October
• Manston night-flying consultation delayed
• Political Posturing on Night Flights
• Manston Night flight plans grounded
• Consultation stops before it starts
• Lovely Posters
• Residents rally on night flights at public meeting in Chatham House School
• Labour's 'no' to flights at night
• Gale keeps digging
• TDC Labour Group reject night flying application
• Night flights may not be answer for jobs
• MP accused of U-turn
• LETTER: lost business
• Letter: glazing
• Gale's View on night flights (Feb 2009)
• Night flight debate over east Kent rages on as consultation nears
• Gale's View on night flights (Oct 2010)
• Gale's new opinion: part 1
• Gale's new opinion: part 2
• Gale's new opinion: part 3
• More from the rumour mill...
• Public consultation: the next steps
• Politicians Against Night Flights
• Infratil top brass come to Kent
• Public get the chance to air views on airport expansion plans
• Clear boundaries
• Sleepless in Thanet
• Chairman sorry after complaints
• The consultation and the election timetable
• Night flights plan requesting take-off
• Herne Bay is 'the fall guy' for night flights
• Public set to be asked for views on night flights from Manston airport
• Sleepless in Ramsgate
• Meeting? What meeting?
• Calling All Whistleblowers
• QQQQQQQQQQQ!
• TDC Councillors and the flight path
• Questions for TDC for the consultation
• Manston Noise Assessment
• Questions, questions
• Ramsgate Town Council consultation
• Consultation: what's the point?
• Flight path? What flight path?
• Resident storms stage at meeting
• Exchange of views
• Night flying proposal 2010
• Night flights: Herne Bay gets screwed
• How not to chair a meeting Part 2
• How not to chair a meeting
• When is a schedule not a schedule?
• BAP report on Night Flights
• Warning to TDC and Infratil over Manston
• nightflight-nightmare
• Manston's future: public meeting
• Kent International Airport boss Charles Buchanan to release night-flight plans
• From Manston to Manchester in 70 minutes
• Pilot says planes do not need to fly over Ramsgate from or to Manston
• Many flights not needed
• KIACC - public meeting
• Manston: healthy and safe?
• Elite property agency to market business park
• Hitch with noise monitor
• Who knows how noisy
• Buchanan hails return of scheduled flights
• Consultation to follow flight figures
• New boss says airport can boost Thanet
• Manston as seen from afar
• New chief appointed at Manston airport
• Iran Air: European ban in July 2010
• Manston-Edinburgh flights start
• Jobs created at Manston for Flybe flights
• FlyBe Bombardiers at Manston
• Thanet to play a crucial role in 21st Century Kent
• Passenger flight plans grounded at Manston
• Cost of airport flights consultation revealed
• Public Consultation 2009
• Quiet wisdom
• Wiggins' routes discovered
• Noise map of Kent
• Manston Parkway Station
• Hypocrisy
• In a nutshell: Noise
• Manston eco-village
• Anger as Kent leader stays away from Manston meeting
• Paul Carter
• Voice of dissent
• In a nutshell: airport manners
• In a nutshell: Manston
• Airport Working Party, 19 May 2009
• Nightmare airport
• Minster Parkway train station en route?
• Think like an idiot
• WriteToThem.com
• Are night flights restricted?
• Night flying fuels fresh Manston airport fight
• Manston is sellable
• Manston airport sale "not ruled out"
• An airport's not the best route to regeneration
• KIACC examine night flights
• KIACC public meeting
• Cargolux in international criminal conspiracy
• Location, location, location matters for airports too
• Curved approach flight paths
• By their logos shall ye know them
• Infratil's flawed bid
• The bid for BAWC night flights
• CCC's Regeneration Department
• Manston is a poor investment
• Brazier's assertions
• Recycling Manston Airport
• Brazier's mistake
• Manston keeps failing. What next?
• YES WE CAN: make it work
• YES WE CAN: sleep
• YES WE CAN: enjoy being awake
• YES WE CAN: monitor
• Better monitoring needs better radar
• Changes to airport master plan
• No case for night flights
• Freight over-stated
• Fanciful employment figures
• British Airways reject Manston airport
• The very thought
• Elected and supportive
• Airport expansion COSTS jobs
• Keep calm and carry on
• Stansted 1, Manston 0
• Bigger than politics
• City leader names BA as mystery firm
• Cargo flights fear for Herne Bay
• Furore over fast track for night flight plans
• It's D-Day for Manston night flights
• BA plans cargo flights from Manston
• More night time flights for Manston?
• Manston could help ease strain of games
• Air freight fuel costs
• Decibel-o-meter?
• How many lorries?
• Help the Campaign
• Feedback
• In a nutshell: Night Flights
• The Background Story
• Airport growth 'flight of fancy'
• Airport hopes to soar above crunch
• Six million passengers for Kent airport
• Misery for Manston as tour operator collapses
• Carter prefers Manston to Boris Island
• How much did KCC's trip to USA cost the public?
• Cosmos pulls out of Manston as US flight plans grounded
• Travel agent is to be based on-site at Manston airport
• US flights a £20m annual boost to county's economy
• Airport without radar until end of the year
• Bookings start for Manston flights to Virginia
• Council told to disclose legal advice over night flights
• Direct flights to USA from Manston next year
• Direct air link to US cleared for take off
• Passenger flights to America from Manston planned
• Kent's investment in US event "value for money"
• Airport's new owners 'in for the long haul'
• KCC defends £100,000 airline gamble charge
• Questions still remain over EUjet collapse
• EUJet doomed from the start
• Council promises 'hard negotiations' with airport
• New era dawns at Kent airport
• Airport broke night flight rules
• Manston "overlooked" by airport planners
• It's your choice, Manston told
• Manston not told of rival airport
• Storm gathers over airport leak
• Manston: Timeline