Konrad From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 494 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2217 times:
I heard that back in the 90s LOT Polish was "sharing" one or two 767 aircraft with Air New Zealand. The idea came from the fact that LOT long-haul service is highly seasonal with high demand only throughtout the summer and much less traffic in winter. This is still true today. For the 2006 summer timetable 7 LO 767s were crossing the Atlantic, the winter schedule requires only 3-4 airframes. I don't know that much about New Zealand, but if they have any leisure seasonal traffic this would be during the southern hemisphere summer i.e. in winter
What do you think about such an arrangement ? Would it work for other airline pairs ? In particular, nowadays LO and NZ could share their Star Alliance livery planes just adding the small title of the appropriate airline. Or maybe swap 777 for 767(787 in future) to adjust capacity to changing demand ?
Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
I know USA3000 lease some aircraft during there high season from a European/UK Charter carrier as there seasons are different. Also Sun Country does the same.
Kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 4, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
Long ago NZ used to share their DC-10s with BA - the a/c would operate AKL-HNL-LAX as an NZ flight then carry on LAX-LHR as a BA flight - no codesharing . Sometimes the a/c would operate other sectors for BA as well (LHR-MIA-LHR for example ) before returning to LAX to be picked up again by NZ
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BMED From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2004, 854 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2119 times:
I think that Star airlines in France and Air Transat of Canada share their fleets. They both fly the A320 and A330 in the same seat layout and similar colours so that when aircraft go from one carrier to the other there are less probelms in terms of layouts etc.
Kevin777 From Denmark, joined Sep 2006, 1154 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2098 times:
Quoting Konrad (Thread starter): In particular, nowadays LO and NZ could share their Star Alliance livery planes just adding the small title of the appropriate airline
Talking about Star and NZ, I heard an SAS guy a year ago mentioning the possibility of SK sharing widebodies with NZ, as the seasons are completely opposite.. Don't think plans were far ahead at all though, but.. There are too many problems, for instance with SAS' unions/crews who want level working hours year-round; extra a/c's in the summer would mean temporarily putting people out of work during the winter, or putting in non-SK staff in the summer.. Sharing of pilots etc... Uuuuuhhhh no we can't have that in SK.. buhuuu... The unions in SK should shut their mouths and see the potential in this.. At least shut their mouths.
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Captaink From Mexico, joined May 2001, 5093 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2083 times:
JM borrows 2 757s from North American during peak times. BW has used a wide variety of airlines during fleet shortage times. World Airways, LOT, Air Atlanta etc..
Kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2065 times:
Quoting Kevin777 (Reply 7): Talking about Star and NZ, I heard an SAS guy a year ago mentioning the possibility of SK sharing widebodies with NZ, as the seasons are completely opposite
would be a bit messy - SK has A330/A340 while NZ has 763 / 744 / 772
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I know My Travel and i believe First Choice Airways use A320's of Skyservice,Canada,during the UK summer IT operations.
Also,UK aircraft operate in Canada during the Winter.
There are quite a few canadian pilots in Cardiff during the summer,for these aircraft.
I was also talking to a UK MYT pilot,who was re-locating to Indonesia for 2.5 months,to operate Hadj flights in a scandinavian MYT A333-300.
Connies4ever From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 3857 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2010 times:
Air Canada and Eastern shared L-1011s (two, IIRC) as Eastern's peak season was the winter and AC's the summer. I believe the arrangement lasted about 5 or 6 years.
Kevin777 From Denmark, joined Sep 2006, 1154 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1956 times:
Quoting Kiwiandrew (Reply 9):
would be a bit messy - SK has A330/A340 while NZ has 763 / 744 / 772
Yes, it would, but the thing is, if SAS just agreed that NZ pilots and possibly some crew could fly the extra SK-capacity in the summer, the a/c type is of less importance.. Light maintenance could be overcome, no problems with the more extensive.. OK, there would be some issues regarding configurations etc., but still, could be overcome.. But the SAS unions would probably never allow that.. "NZ crew flying THEIR routes.." get over it SK-crew!..
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BA787 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 2596 posts, RR: 8 Reply 14, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1896 times:
The TUI group do a lot of plane sharing. I think it would be a great perk of alliances if they shared planes a bit more. Would help the smaller members
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6631 posts, RR: 17 Reply 15, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1843 times:
Possibly the most well known shared aircraft was when BA and AF shared their Concordes with Braniff and, at the same time BA shared with SQ.
As the US is very restrictive about foreign operated and registered aircraft being operated by American airlines, very special arrangements had to be made to facilitate the 'share' with Braniff. First British CAA approval had to be obtained for BA to re register their Concordes to include numbers in the registration when British aircraft registrations have always been alpha and non-numeric registrations. So, for example, G-BOAE was reregistered G-N94AE.
This aircraft would - like all the Concordes in both the BA and AF fleets - occasionally be put into service on the LHR-IAD route. When it reached IAD it was immediately reregistered N94AE. A special patch that would survive the round trip to DFW was then put over the 'G-' part of the registration. The BA crew who had flown the aircraft from LHR would leave the aircraft. It would then be boarded by a full Braniff crew and a BA flight crew. The Braniff crew would bring aboard all the necessary US legal documentation while the British flight crew would remove the legal British documentation from the cockpit and place it in a special lockable box in the toilet at the rear of the aircraft. The Braniff crew would then fly the aircraft IAD-DFW with, for insurance purposes, the British flight crew sitting behind them.
Once the aircraft had been flown back to IAD by a Braniff crew, that crew would carry all the legal documentation off the aircraft, the US registration would be cancelled, the former British registration restored, the British registration and other documentation would be recovered from the toilet and the aircraft would fly back to LHR with a British crew.
Here is a photo of N94AE at DFW and the same aircraft now registered G-N94AE at LHR:
To further complicate matters BA was, at that time (1979) sharing the Concorde formerly and more recently registered G-BOAD with SQ on the LHR-SIN route. The right side of the fuselage and tail of this aircraft was painted in SQ livery, the left side in BA livery. As this aircraft was also sometimes used by BA on its LHR-IAD service it was reregistered G-N94AD and, on those occasions when it was also shared with Braniff, N94AD:
777WT From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 874 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (6 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1649 times:
At my airline, we have at least a few spare planes which is sent out for charter or revenue service should one go out of service for an maintenance problem which would take longer than 2 hours to be put back into service.
These spare planes are painted white with a just a plain blue tail because they're often used with different airlines my airline does the flying for them.
Like last night one was flying for United Express, then this morning it was flying for Delta Connection. It can be a backup for US Airways also should the need arise, same goes for American Eagle.
These planes are like "universal" to all 4 airlines my airline does the flying for.
There's another type which is the same color also but it's used for same except American Eagle.
The only differences in these planes are the announcement CD's for safety briefing have to be the correct one used for the carrier it's flying for, and the food/refreshments on board.
Magazines too...
Everything else is the same including the seats
Like today one was flying for Delta Connection but also had a United Express safety breifing CD on board from the day before.
And the food on board are from Delta mainline including the yummy biscoff cookies!
FlyingColours From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2315 posts, RR: 11 Reply 18, posted (6 years 7 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1235 times:
Air 2000 used to send a lot of 757s over to Canada 3000 for the winter but since C3 went under DP (now First Choice) try and send their 757s over to Skyservice.
My Travel sent a fairly large number of aircraft to SSV but now that First Choice and Thomas Cook UK send theirs over to SSV too it means that the demand for aircraft winter leases has dropped (another effect from the loss of Canada 3000).
Of course, First Choice lease in some aircraft for the summer from Skyservice (SSV flight crew with FCA cabin crew), eg BFS and CWL bases are on the Canadian aircraft (which retain their Canadian registrations).
I think the DUB aircraft is also from SSV, not sure on that one.
Phil
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