Na From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9603 posts, RR: 10 Posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1050 times:
3 months ago there were news on this forum and elsewhere that British World Cargo was forced by the UK goverment to terminate the lease of its two Atlas Air B744F´s by end of may this year.
It seems that BA insisted on it. And won. Yesterday while picking up tickets for a flight to Madrid this week I saw N495MC landing in FRA, in the beautiful full BA "Chelsea Rose" colours. The other leased 744F (N494MC) I saw also here a few weeks ago, but in Atlas livery.
Fxra From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 679 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1016 times:
I saw the "BA" Atlas bird yesterday here at ATL, but it was being flown for Lufthansa i thought, (being on the lufthansa carg ramp and Lufthansa loading the plane). Theres a regular flight out on Sat nights using an Atlas 744. Does the agreement with BA allow for Atlas to lease out that plane to other airlines when they don't need it?
CX747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4385 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1006 times:
Actually, if my information is correct, Atlas and BA found a loophole in the law. Atlas set up a British based subsidiary of themselves run by a 51% owned British Company. That way they are "British Owned" and can continue their agreement. 2 aircraft are being used on the Stansted-Chek Lap Kok route. 494MC and 495MC.
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Trvlr From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4430 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 999 times:
I was wondering about this because I could have sworn I saw a BA World Cargo 744F in HK recently.
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