There’s been a lot said and written about UK air traffic control recently, so we thought we’d share some context about what’s been happening and the huge amount of work our teams are doing day in day out Thread 🧵

It’s #NationalBlackDogDay and Marty would like to say a big hello, when he’s finished going mad at people passing by the house anyway.

2023 seems to be the year of orchestral re-imagined songs for me, having seen James 3 times already with a 4th orchestral show beckoning. But to find this gem of a classic from BASTILLE and Hans Zimmer was a superb and goosebump-inducing surprise! youtu.be/8nfhHBJQXOY?si…

Orchestral ⁦James⁩ for the final time. Nottingham, our fourth show.

Not sure if Elon likes us posting links to Insta any more, but here we go! instagram.com/p/CzEKULosj_u/

Sad yet inevitable, makes me realise just how old I am now when I was on the delivery team for YG back in January 1999 🤣. Great pictures from Enda to mark the end of a very long era of operations of the type for Britannia/Thomson/TUI and Air 2000/First Choice.

Question for all you clever folk: flight this evening by the Orange people is already delayed 3hrs. If the app says a new departure time of 2200 can you delay arriving at the airport for a bit?

The summertime dog walking route is somewhat damp right now…short video of the Ouzel Valley Park from Monkston Park into Oakgrove showing the flooding. Spotting the river is tricky in places, staying away from the water is definitely a good plan. The Parks Trust Milton Keynes City Council

Well that escalated quickly... 💨 An amazing job by controllers and flight crews right across the country last night dealing with #StormIsha, including over 100 go-arounds. Steve Fox, our head of network operations, looks at the impact. ➡️ bit.ly/3Obii06

Hi Octopus Energy, tried giving my referral link to a friend in MK8 1DN and the link isn’t working plus he says your website doesn’t recognise the postcode. Any ideas please?

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Spot the deliberate mistake here. Even managed to park so I didn’t block two stations, winning.

As predicted by the LATE BRAKING F1 PODCAST chaps, Bruno will be a fumin’. Or he fired himself, heck he’s running out of people TO fire these days.

Holiday reading completed in record time, a great read from Matt Dearden on his tales from Indonesia while we were somewhere in the Caribbean! So many times in that book where I went “nope”, but you made it sound easy - thanks Matt!

Determined to try and get more from social media and posting images in 2025, so getting my Flickr account up-to-date again. Here’s Dogbro smiling during a photoshoot in Rushmere - I got a couple of shots while the pro worked her magic on our crazy hound! flic.kr/p/2qUpm9z

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