Travel Technology - UK Teletext flight arrivals on digital

I've used the UK flight arrivals on BBC Teletext for years, so have the rest of the family to see when I am getting home.

New digital TV last week, and the equivalent of Teletext is a pale shadow of what the old TV used to show - and no flight arrivals pages at all. Are they hidden somewhere ?

Sadly I don't think so, and as the tv service here is analogue only at the mo I can't easily check. I assume you've tried typing the analogue page number into the into the digital service and it didn't come up. My tv has both and I've never use the digital one, I prefer the anlogue one.

They are also available online:

http://www.ceefax.tv/

Enter "flight arrivals" or "440" for a list of all arrival airports.

Thank you ScottC. But we don't want it on a computer, we want it on TV as at present. Apart from the fact that it takes 5 minutes to start up and connect on line, when I am returning home the laptop is with me in the cabin overheads !

Given you are paying for the license fee (as am I) have you considerd complaining to the BBC about this? Tell them you will go back to analogue, write to the DCMS & Ofcom unless they change it.

Won't make a shred of difference but you might feel better.

I've used the UK flight arrivals on BBC Teletext for years, so have the rest of the family to see when I am getting home.

New digital TV last week, and the equivalent of Teletext is a pale shadow of what the old TV used to show - and no flight arrivals pages at all. Are they hidden somewhere ?

Has the new digital telly not got an Analogue tuner as well..? I have been looking at the Sony Bravia's (http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct.action?product=KDL-32S3000&site=odw_en_GB&pageType=TechnicalSpecs&imageType=Main&category=TVP+LCD+TV#tab) and the couple I have looked at have.

Your old aerial would connect into the RF In/Aerial socket and you would access the channels by the 1,2,3,4 buttons and the digital signal (Sky, Freeview, Cable) would go in via the scart.

So you would have "old Ceefax" on the analogue buttons and the rubbish "digital Ceefax" on the channels via whatever digital service you have got.

Both DVB-T and DVB-S can carry teletext functions, I use it everyday on the swedish operators. Do you receive BBC via freeview? I would be surprised if BBC stopped using teletext altogether.

edit: apparantly it is a cost issue, the cost for licensing the content to the digital platform is according to the BBC to high. I would suggest contacting them and voicing your concern and perhaps a letter to your mp addressing the issue. You might also check with teletext on freeview channel 9 which broadcasts text from Teletext Ltd (no audio or video on that channel). Your next stb will probably have internet connectivity and that will solve the problem.