Re: Manchester (UK) Aviation - 2024

Posted today on X by SPD_travels https://twitter.com/SPD_travels/status/1755646931622113493?s=20 As seen as it’s now the worst kept secret around the airport, here it is. China Eastern are proposing a Shanghai to Manchester flight. MU781 PVG 0145 MAN 0730 MU782 MAN 0930 PVG 0350+1 Mon/Wed/Fri from ...

Re: 747 with blocked Door 3

But just to clarify, the ATA 500's (ex DL & RJ)... in addition to the extra pax ATA crammed in, what is the distance between door 2 & rear door before the modification was done... is it more than 60 feet? I believe ATA’s TriStar 500 fleet was all ex RJ. As new aircraft to the US register th...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2024

readytotaxi wrote:

So these Gatwick B772 pilots will be retrained to A350 over the years?

Re: CVR

I was referring to the E175/190, as I was a project pilot during their introduction and delivery at Air Canada. I just wasn’t sure if the dual setup was an “Air Canada ism” or if they all came that way. I see someone above indicated they were all so equipped. It was an elegant setup, not just the C...

Re: CVR

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

Which types have two, never heard of it?

Re: Tatty TUI Dreamliners

It's not so much an obsession with Tui in particular, sure A.net loves talking about liveries, but Tui aircraft are looking especially bad. Some 737s are still in the old livery, the 787s have giant dark patches where it used to say Thomson. On the ramp there are nice shiny silver Jet2 planes parke...

Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

Of interest, BA’s new order for 6 787-10s is with cabin crew bunks, unlike the original 12 Alex Cruz was all about short term cost savings to feather his own bonus pot and to hell with the impact to the business down the line. The GE powered 777-200ERs have never had cabin crew bunks, so there’s a ...

Re: Another 767 buckled fuselage hard landing

Wow, so we already have to update the list we established in the UA-767-hard landing thread: 1992 AAL in GRU 1992 OZ in CJU 1993 LOT in ORD 2000 Vietnam AL in SGN 1997 AZA in EWR 2004 LAB in VVI 2005 Skyservice in PUJ 2009 RAM in JFK 2010 TOM in BRS 2012 ANA in NRT 2018 Atlas in PSM 2020 Omni in SN...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

As some people had spoken about the A380's on time departure I did a quick spreadsheet using FR24 data for August. 390:02hrs lost STD vs ATD 183:52hrs lost at out stns Best performer was G-XLEB 26:19hrs late Class dunce was G-XLEH 52:28hrs late Of course there are lots of variables, weather route e...

Re: 40 years ago today since first BA 757 entered service.

757s were super rare in in Canada, I can recall taking one flight on Canada 3000 in Jul 2001 YVR-CUN, I recall the only other Canadian operator at the time being HMY / Harmony Airways. I was lucky enough to fly one BA 757-200 leg, CGN-LHR in early 2005, super light LF, rocket take off, loved it! I ...

Re: 40 years ago today since first BA 757 entered service.

Hello. I'm pretty sure that all the G-BMRx aircraft had the -C engine, and not the E4. Happy to be corrected if you are sure. As I recall, the first 'BA' 757s to get the E4 were those ordered by BA for use by Caledonian (the G-BPEx aircraft). Of course the Caledonian 757s ended up with BA, joined b...

Re: How long do TUI Airways plan on keeping their B767's and what purpose do they serve?

I have to wonder why TUI hasn’t considered ordering the MAX 10, or are they? That would seem to be ideal for high-density intra-EU flights for them. TUI ordered 18 737-Max10 aircraft in 2017, First European customer. https://www.tuigroup.com/en-en/media/press-releases/2017/2017-06-19-18-new-737-max...

Re: Operating at exit limits

Several types have different door options to accommodate different densities. A330/340-200/300: big or small door 3. Same idea as the TriStar, which I hadn't known about. 757-200: 8-door and 6-door options. The 8-door gave a higher exit limit, but took up more cabin space, so many lower-density car...

Re: A few A380's returning to service?

this looks really bad from the outside. hopefully, the inside is in better shape. Cosmetic look is just that, but massively more worrying is the lack of external covers on these aircraft. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50155861057_3da49104ec_k_d.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51119155...

Re: Operating at exit limits

I believe the Caledonian TriStars were 393, looking at some old books. Certified max 400. I read that CourtLine had 400 seats in theirs, but well before my time to be able to verify. Brianna had a special Hajj configuration for the 767-300 with 344 seats, against their usual short haul IT configurat...

Re: British Airways new typeface ?

There are plenty of news articles about the ad campaign. However none of them mention a rebranding. For example: https://www.adweek.com/creativity/why-british-airways-created-more-than-500-unique-ads-to-restore-brand-love/ Interestingly, the campaign is built around the reasons people fly vs the re...

Re: Embraer E2 Production and News Thread - 2022

So the 195E2 is okay for LCY but the old 195 isn't? They're quite different aircraft, for a start the E2-195 has taller landing gear with different geometry (as does the E2-190) to accommodate the bigger engines. With a new wing, and a reshaped tailplane. The differences are more than a straight NE...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

skipness1E wrote:

Hang on, they have their OWN ENGINEERS? Surely BA Engineering support both fleets at Gatters?
The way things are going, having them on a new AOC just seems pointless.

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Euroflyer doesn’t have its own AOC yet, so its being operated by mainline for the summer. Mainline pilots on the A320. Euroflyer have their own cabin crew, ops, crewing and engineers. Handing provided by GGS. So pilots aside, whole LGW A320 operation has dedicated staff groups, despite lacking an A...

Re: IAG orders 50 737 MAX + 100 options

Have you flown on BA lately? From my experience there is more room on Ryanair than the A321neo. Especially the bathroom. Have you flown a Ryanair 737 Max? Now that the exit limit is increased from 189 to 197, 2” less pitch in all non-exit rows, and the 2 rear toilets located aft of the exits alongs...

Re: BR66 flying but declared "cancelled"

Happened with a lot of flights to restricted destinations during the pandemic. Flight cancelled as far as passengers concerned. Still operating with freight only. Saves on staffing/handling/catering costs and bureaucracy. Many airlines even put freight in the passenger cabins at times. Would seem mo...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Am I correct in thinking that Cityflyer hasn't been affected (or at least not so badly affected) by the IT issues? The EDI-LCY flights seem to have been operating more or less normally despite the meltdown elsewhere. I have to go to London next month and I need to decide between Cityflyer to LCY (m...

Re: AA launches Ocho Rios, Jamaica

KCaviator wrote:

The runway is less than 4,800 ft and Envoy is notorious for running into the grass... This will be fun to watch.

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Ignoring obsolete configurations being phased out by refurbishments on the 777 fleet, current BA long haul seat counts. 469 - A388 - F14C97W55Y303 336 - B772 - C32W52Y252 (LGW 3-Class) 332 - B772 - C32Y48Y252 (LGW 3-Class) 331 - A35K - C56W56Y219 272 - B772 - C48W40Y184 256 - B77W - F8C76W40Y132 256...

Re: Air Canada ordering A321-LR?

Plus your landing, and navigation/overflight charges are based on the MTOW, plus the extra fuel tanks require maintenance. Airlines go for the options that are the lowest cost for what they need. They don’t pimp their fleets. Airlines will buy the most capable aircraft they need . They won’t pay ext...

Re: Volume of Transatlantic A321 Routes Today

And Continental itself was late to that party. TWA was flying 757’s transatlantic back in the late 1990’s and others before it. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=397491 Of course we could go all the way back to 707’s, DC-8’s, the Concorde, Comet, Connie etc for single aisle services a...

Re: Volume of Transatlantic A321 Routes Today

My point: the 321neo is not a game-changer in narrowbody TATL services. In fact, it was 15 years late to the party. CO had started such services with 757s in 2004. https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/cic/alerts/2004_02_27_01.aspx That’s inaccurate by almost a decade for Continental, and over 1...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

How does BA choose their LGW based 777s it seems they shuffle them around quite often The LGW based 777-200s are in a completely different configuration to the LHR ones. In normal times they don’t swap, but you may see an LHR aircraft at LGW covering maintenance or tech issues. Very rare if ever, t...

Re: Finnair to launch new premium economy & business class next week

Actually one of the Finnair press releases references that it was a Preistmangoode design that was then refined by the manufacturer then customised to Finnair. Someone was clearly paying attention there! That does make sense that Preistmangoode reused and reimagined their original work. It’s a very...

Re: Finnair to launch new premium economy & business class next week

The seat seems to take its core design from the BA Club World design with Preistmangoode that they applied for a patent on in 2014. Visually and concept wise it’s pretty much the same. https://thedesignair.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-30-at-17-29-19.png See a comprehensive article...

Re: UK proposing passenger compensation for 1hr delays.

It’s a win win for Amsterdam , Dublin , Frankfurt etc transfer traffic , lower fares , enhanced consumer protection … Just out of curiosity, where do you think the money to compensate customers comes from? It isn’t from some government body, it comes from the customers. So the very high potential c...

Re: UK proposing passenger compensation for 1hr delays.

If I had to make a guess, I'm sure the management of the airline you work for would be very happy if the food voucher and hotel requirements did not exist in the proposed UK legislation. What I was saying, was that the airline s that I’ve worked for have all provided this, well before the EU regula...

Re: UK proposing passenger compensation for 1hr delays.

The airlines aren't giving free food vouchers and hotels out of kindness. They do it because they are mandated by the EU rules. The article does not state whether the proposed UK rules will require airlines to provide these during a delay. The airline I was working for had been giving out vouchers,...

Re: IAG narrowbody Tender 737MAX/A320NEO

The rebuild to the East was designed to have nose in parking for bigger aircraft but that's not imminent. I'm not sure the replacement of the ERJ-190 is all THAT pressing to be fair. Fleet size was 30 ERJs, 24 ER9 and 6 ER7, the ER7s have gone and 3 of the ER9s are going back to the leasors. G-LCYZ...

Re: IAG narrowbody Tender 737MAX/A320NEO

The amount of space needed for 10 E190s parked wingtip to wingtip will only fit 8 A220s. Whilst LCY park Aircraft at angles on the ramp so the full Wingspan doesn’t come into play for the parking positions, and there are plans to extend the Ramp out over King George V Dock to create some extra Stan...

Re: Tristar at BA - cabin & config & long-haul routes

To be fair, by about 1994, "TriStar" became synonymous with "Delay" at Gatwick and the original BA / British Airtours aircraft weren't immune from that. The collection of accompanying aircraft, including Peach Air, International Airways, Air Ops Europe and even more short-lived ...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion Thread - 2022

gsg013 wrote:

Have they removed the window fancy window covers when they do the new F update? I feel like i have seen it both with and without the big black and blue covers?

Re: British Airways Suspends Newly Restarted BNA Service Until May

I do understand the 787-10 delays because of Boeings production issues but I don’t understand the 350 delay hold up? The planes have been ready seems BA is not ready to pick them up Yes, I think that the A350 deliveries were delayed by choice, with the agreement of Airbus. If you take delivery of t...

Re: Tristar at BA - cabin & config & long-haul routes

In terms of destinations served I'll try look through old timetables, but Summer 1989 has (* - shorthaul): From/To London Gatwick: ⋅ Abidjan ⋅ Accra ⋅ Amman ⋅ Athens* ⋅ Baghdad ⋅ Banjul ⋅ Bermuda ⋅ Cairo ⋅ Fre...

Re: Tristar at BA - cabin & config & long-haul routes

TriStar 200s were used on LGW-LOS in Summer '89. I flew the route on TriStars in September '89 (and again in April '91). I’m sure you are correct, as there was no doubt some seasonal shift between the TriStar and DC-10 at Gatwick, but it’s it’s my recollection that the DC-10 pretty much operated mo...

Re: Tristar at BA - cabin & config & long-haul routes

oldannyboy wrote:

I might be wrong, but were these not operated by the DC-10 fleet? Or am I mixing up years/equipment??
Thanks!

Re: Tristar at BA - cabin & config & long-haul routes

Very good detailed seatplans of the BA TriStar 200 and 500 (3-Class Long Haul) and TriStar 1 (Short Haul) from their 1988 Timetable. (Scroll down towards the end) British Airways 1988 Timetable By this stage all versions of the TriStar have been converted to 10-abreast in economy. And the scale of t...

Re: DC10-30 re-engining

This will probably be very useful to answering your question, I found it very interesting. Someone obviously put a lot of work into it, so I don’t want to take away from that by trying to answer here using that as the source. I’d prefer people to visit the link. The Ultimate DC-10/MD-11 Guide https:...

Re: Updated: New IAG carrier at LGW - BA EuroFlyer

SEU wrote:

What is the fleet that this airline will use ? will it just use BA planes, or will BA transfer some over to the new airline?

Re: New IAG carrier at LGW

pre-pandemic And there lies the 2022 ambitious issue (bookings will need to start flowing Feb/March) Exactly - and I work for an airline - you either run and hide behind the sofa, or go out there in the market. What’s clear to all is that the demand is at 2019 levels. The random government restrict...

Re: Qantas to launch seasonal SYD-PER-FCO flights

TC957 wrote:

Wonder why they chose FCO over FRA to start a second PER - Europe service.

Re: New IAG carrier at LGW

by738 wrote:

The plans may be there but will the passengers…? 3x Daily LON to MCO is ambitious to say the least..

Re: BA re announces PDX-LHR, and to resume PIT-LHR

iflykpdx wrote:

Still no official date for SJC-LHR.

Re: BA sues ORD, concerning FOD damage to multiple aircraft

I'm aware, but that's not the case at ORD T5 with BA, hence the statement in the first place. ;) However it is the case that on those 2 days, looking at Planefinder playbacks, 3 out of the 4 arrivals parked on remote stands to the East of T5. In what looks like a construction site in the current Go...

Re: BA sues ORD, concerning FOD damage to multiple aircraft

Not really, seeing as there's no "the" BA gates, and (at least from what we know at this current point in time) no other of the many carriers that'd use those gates throughout the days, seem affected. At most airports the gate allocation isn't random, with specific airlines generally allo...