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Air Berlin/LGW Took Delivery Of First Q400

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6798 posts, RR: 5
Posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2739 times:

Yesterday the very first Q400 for Air Berlin has landed in Berlin Tegel:
http://www.berlin-spotter.de/focus/2008/airberlin8400.htm

The airline will replace the Fokker 100 and be operated by LGW.

A very good looking aircraft, I wish Air Berlin great success with this aircraft and hope to fly on one of them soon Smile

It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong

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Parton87 From Sweden, joined Sep 2008, 524 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2668 times:

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The Q400 look realy nice in the Air Berlin´s color Smile

DingDong From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 661 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2650 times:

Very nice aircraft, indeed - looks sharp in that livery.

Not meaning to derail this thread, but as I don't closely follow Q400 developments, did Bombardier ever figure out the root cause of the landing gear failures from some time back?

DingDong, honey, please answer the doorbell!

AA737-823 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 5338 posts, RR: 11
Reply 3, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2593 times:

Quoting DingDong (Reply 2):
Bombardier ever figure out the root cause of the landing gear failures from some time back?

I think they did... if memory serves correctly, I think the actuators were being overhauled incorrectly.

Quoting Columba (Thread starter):
Yesterday the very first Q400 for Air Berlin has landed in Berlin Tegel:

And there's a photo of it, in the database..... the database.... belonging to a different website...

Stylo777 From Turkey, joined Feb 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 12
Reply 4, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2557 times:

which routes will they operate?

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6798 posts, RR: 5
Reply 5, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2443 times:

Quoting AA737-823 (Reply 3):
And there's a photo of it, in the database..... the database.... belonging to a different website...

There is a photo in the link I posted above, could not find it any picture on a.net.

Which database do you mean, there is only a.net, have not heard of any other database Smile

It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong

Columba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6798 posts, RR: 5
Reply 6, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2329 times:

Just read that Air Berlin also retired all former DBA 737-300s and the last remaining F100s on November 1st. Can anybody confirm ?

The 737-300s and the F100 would have been the oldest aircraft in Air Berlin´s fleet leaving AB/LT with a fleet of

A330-300
A330-200
A321
A320
A319

B737-800
B737-700

Q400 (operated by LGW)

A very modern fleet indeed Smile

Any news if the fleet will be further streamlined (except for the 787-8 as A333 and A332 replacement)

It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong

MHG From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 670 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2244 times:

Quoting Stylo777 (Reply 4):
which routes will they operate?

Some sources insist that it´ll be DUS-STR.

But my sources tell me that at least one will be based in Karlsruhe (FKB) und serving solely Hamburg (HAM) from mid march 2009.
AB has increased the number of flights on FKB-HAM around that time from 2 daily to 4 daily flights and flight times are so that an aircraft needs to be based at FKB.
My local source from FKB confirms the switch from F100/B737/A319 to DH4. After all that´s no increase in availlable seats on that route but just offering better schedules to business travellers.

Upcoming trip:

Sebjacques92 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2007, 138 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2099 times:

Wow the aircraft looks really sharp in Air Berlin colours! How many more will they get and will they only be used on regional routes?
Seb airplane

GCT64 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2007, 1104 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2062 times:

For info:

D-ABQA was delivered as "BER1" on Saturday (1 Nov) routing YYZ-YYR-KEF. Then on 2 Nov to TXL (?) not sure whether the last leg was non-stop.

Flown in: A30B,A306,A310,A319,A320,A321,A332,A333,A343,A346,BA11,BU31,B190, B461,B462,B463,(..50 types..),VC10,WESX

CARST From Germany, joined Jul 2006, 705 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (4 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days ago) and read 1827 times:

Quoting GCT64 (Reply 9):
For info:

D-ABQA was delivered as "BER1" on Saturday (1 Nov) routing YYZ-YYR-KEF. Then on 2 Nov to TXL (?) not sure whether the last leg was non-stop.

Should have been a non-stop flight as KEF-TXL is nearly the same distance as YYR-KEF.

Source GCM;

From To Initial-Heading Distance
3 segment path: 3579 nm
YYZ (43°40'38"N 79°37'50"W) YYR (53°19'09"N 60°25'33"W) 45° (NE) 955 nm
YYR (53°19'09"N 60°25'33"W) KEF (63°59'06"N 22°36'20"W) 46° (NE) 1320 nm
KEF (63°59'06"N 22°36'20"W) TXL (52°33'35"N 13°17'16"E) 104° (E) 1303 nm

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