I wonder if this Eastern Airways - flybe agreement is similar to that between themselves and BA CityFlyer. Eastern Airways have two Saab 2000s painted in full BA livery. They are both usually dedicated to the three times daily IOM-LCY-IOM rotations. Usually one aircraft operates these flights with t...
Jump to postThat sounds like BA have a special deal with Titan to lease 'NB' when required, would that be the case, or are we simply talking about normal ad-hoc cover when required ? Titan is usually BA's first port of call for additional capacity. The frequency and length of routine maintenance of 'NA is tota...
Jump to postBA categorizes passengers into four groups:
'infants' are aged 0 to 23 months
'children' are aged 2 to 11 years
'young adults' are aged 12 to 15 years
'adults' are aged 16+ yers
'young adults' may travel alone
'children' must be accompanied by an 'adult'
Never say never. However there is a listing of BA aircraft currently scheduled for repainting this year and next year in the current 'BA LHR Paint Shop' thread. Listed as 20th and last of those aircraft scheduled to be repainted at DUB this year is 318 G-EUNA. So it is a reasonably safe assumption t...
Jump to postIt doesn't seem that long ago when JAL and Singapore were the biggest 747 operators, but most airlines have either got rid or are getting rid of their 747s. It's all about economics, of course, as a 777-300ER does almost everything a 747 does but much cheaper. Do not forget BA. Over the years they ...
Jump to postIt doesn't seem that long ago when JAL and Singapore were the biggest 747 operators, but most airlines have either got rid or are getting rid of their 747s. It's all about economics, of course, as a 777-300ER does almost everything a 747 does but much cheaper. Do not forget BA. Over the years they ...
Jump to postThe BA Source is reporting that BA has flown a 744 between LHR and the following 20 destinations in the 30 days up to 22 May 2017: ACC BOS CPT DFW DEN DXB IAD JFK JNB KWI LAS MEX MIA NBO ORD PHL PHX RUH SFO YYZ Destinations like JFK obviously see both more than one BA 747 passenger service and passe...
Jump to postI believe that a lot of IAG's painting is done in Madrid. Yes. Between 8 August 2013 and 29 March 2015 I can count as many as 15 single aisle BA Airbus aircraft that were returned to service after being repainted in the Union Flag Bright White Crest livery at MAD. But none since then. This may be b...
Jump to postThe BA Paint Shop at LHR was closed for maintenance on 15 September 2015. It was reported to be scheduled to reopen early in the following December. To date as far as I know it is still closed or is being used for some other activity. The BA Source site reports that recently two BA 772s, G-VIIG and ...
Jump to postHow often do they change over on average? G-EUNA was out of service at LHR from 29 October to 19 November. It was under maintenance at GLA from 25 to 28 November. It was out of service at LHR from 10 December to 8 January. It was out of service at LHR from 3 March to 1 April. G-EUNB.mirror imaged '...
Jump to postBA cancelled their early LHR-ATH-LHR (BA638/39) rotation and then operated a 77W (G-STBF) on the later BA640/41 rotation to help clear the passenger back-log. [Source: The BA Source web site.]
Jump to postBA CityFlyer crew do not benefit from the same terms and conditions as BA Mainline crew because the CityFlyer terms and conditions have developed from an entirely different base to those of BA itself. This base was the terms and conditions pertaining to CityFlyer Express crew, This airline was an LG...
Jump to postDo not believe everything SRB has said about Concorde. The contract price for the first five frames ordered by BOAC was the same as that for the subsequently cancelled PA order, namely £25 million per frame. As at October 2013 £25 million was equivalent in real terms to US$450 million. The myth of b...
Jump to postThere has been one profitable and commercially viable Airline in Africa and that is Ethiopean. The rest of them are state funded and many suffer from corruption. Comair in South Africa was founded in 1946. It is not state funded. It is a publicly owned company traded on the Johannesburg Stock Excha...
Jump to postIt has been the Singapore government's policy to sign totally open skies air services agreements with other countries with a similar liberal approach for many years. It perceives that such agreements encourage the maximum competition to the benefit of the consumer. As an example the UK / Singapore O...
Jump to postQuote from Gatwick Airport CEO, Stewart Windgate, in article titled 'Booming Gatwick' in next month's (June '17) 'Airliner World': 'Gatwick is booming. We have just reached 44 million passengers a year - a world record for a single runway airport - and a mark that some predicted we would not hit unt...
Jump to postIs the UK economy on a downward slope? No. In the 29 quarters since the start of 1Q 2010 UK GDP has grown in all but two. It declined by 0.1 per cent in Q2 2012 and 0.2 per cent in Q4 of the same year. In all of the remaining 27 quarters it has grown. So statistically it is on an uphill slope. [Sour...
Jump to postAs the link provided by MoKa777 says a tender to provide a scheduled service is currently out. Elsewhere it has been stated that tenders must be submitted by 'Summer 2017'. The tenders will then be considered and one hopefully chosen. I guess that a proposed starting date will be part of each tender...
Jump to postIn recent years BA and BA CityFlyer have operated charter flights out of EDI, GLA and LGW to view the Northern Lights. Short term predictions of their occurrences are usually accurate because the lights are associated with increased and observable solar wind activity. The BA flights have all been to...
Jump to postIn July 2014 the BBC reported that Tourism accounted for 11 per cent of Spanish GDP. They say that in the first six months of that year (that obviously excludes the peak holiday months of July and August) 6.5 million British tourists visited that country. This compares with 4.7 million German and 4....
Jump to postOver the last month since 26 March BA have been operating long-haul configured 777s on the BA458/59 LHR-MAD-LHR rotation. It has been said that the substitution of a 777 here is to help transfer cargo between these two IAG hubs. Initially (26 and 27 March) and on one occasion since BA have operated ...
Jump to postWhat was the point of making BA/AA divest slots to get their ATI/JV if they can just acquire more? The divested slots had to be used to fly between LHR and stipulated US gateways. So the purpose was to provide competition on specified routes where AA/BA had high frequencies and a large market share...
Jump to postOf course BA inherited BD's A 330s that were leased from ILFC. And from the date of purchase of BD on 20 April 2012 until those aircraft were returned to the lessor in October 2012 they almost exclusively operated BD flights. However there is always the exception to prove the rule. One 330 G-WWBM (C...
Jump to postThere are four Asian destinations served by IB as detailed in the April 1995 edition of the 'ABC World Airline Guide'. Three of these are in the Middle East: AMM (IB106) (Twice weekly) KWI (IB168) (Once weekly) NRT (IB6711) (Thrice weekly) TLV (IB3790 and IB3796) (Six weekly) I did not check BCN in ...
Jump to postThere are older 767-200s in operation as converted freighters. Many are flying for DHL. 752 G-BIKB, CN 22173, LN 10 rolled out at BFI on 24 September 1982, first flight 23 December 1982, delivered to BA on 25 January 1983, converted to a freighter by ST Aerospace between October 2001 and June 2002 ...
Jump to post741 CN 20270, LN 169, was originally operated by BOAC and then BA as G-BNWH. It was retired in June 1989 and sold by its lessor, AAR Aircraft Leasing, to Sandia National Laboratories. It was then ferried to ABQ in early June '89. Its British registration was cancelled on 18 June. As I can find no re...
Jump to postThe Republic of Ireland, and the UK together with the Chanel Islands and the Isle of Man are all part of the CTA (Common Travel Area). In most respects the immigration rules within this area match those of Schengen, The internal structure of any terminal within the CTA that can accept passengers fro...
Jump to postHow lovely. More people speak polish that Gaelic in Scotland. Perhaps English and polish would be more worthwhile?[/quote] Loganair have been there and done that already. Between October 1998 and the sad loss of both crew on 27 February 2001(when the aircraft was ditched with a severe icing problem ...
Jump to postFitlikemin wrote:Some of those Saab 340s though are rather elderly
Again probably not what the OP is looking for but BA announced in February 2016 that it would wet leased two 737 700s from Jet Time of Denmark for the entire 2016 Summer Season. On a weekday one operated LHR-GLA-LHR (BA1474/79). LHR-CPH-LHR (BA616/17) and LHR-CPH (BA822). Meanwhile the other operate...
Jump to postThese are the direct flights from Manchester listed in the BA Summer 1993 Timetable: ABZ: BA5780, BA5782, BA2006 (737), BA5788 (23 weekly by ATP except '06) AGP: BA5046 (2 weekly by 737) AMS: BA5824, BA5028, BA5030 ((18 weekly by 737) BCN: BA5044 (6 weekly by 737) BFS: BA5280, BA5282, BA5284, BA5286...
Jump to postI am mystified. Is the article from Air Transport World wrong? It says: 'Aeroground, a wholly owned subsidiary of Munich Airport, has been responsible for ground handling services at Berlin Tegel since March 26'. Is this wrong? Is their more than one ground handling company operating at TXL? Or are ...
Jump to postFrom the 'Boeing 777' section of the book Gaskell, Keith, British Airways: Its History, Aircraft and Liveries , Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, England, 1999, p. 55 'During December 1988 Boeing invited eight major airlines, all of which were potential customers and including British Airways, to beco...
Jump to postCheck out the five A 320 Type 111s that were ordered by BCal but delivered to BA after the latter bought BCal. Note that these five aircraft were all amongst the first 18 320s manufactured: G-BUSB: LN 006; d.d. 30 Mar 88; wfu 27 Nov 07; age 19.7 yrs; t.t. 35.643 hrs; 28,365 cycles G-BUSC: LN 008; d....
Jump to postI see from Flightrader24 that the aircraft spent around 23 minutes taxiing before departing LGW' Later, after turning south over the northern end of the Isle of Harris, it completed circuits to the west of Glasgow, over the Peak District and then over Lancashire before heading back to LHR. The total...
Jump to postSorry am misremembering, with BA G-CPEM/N were delivered as Landor alongside G-BNWZ long after the hybrid livery was being rolled out. 20 years ago chaps, 20 years !! Yup! 'EN's place in history at this point in time is that of being the last aircraft of any type to be rolled out in BA's Landor liv...
Jump to postI know slots at LHR are expensive and hard to come by and I wonder why British Airways has added so many holiday destinations to their LHR plan rather than those destinations being served by LGW and use the LHR ones for things that will generate more money than Kalamta and places like that? (Info I...
Jump to postI also remember BA had two B757s (G-CPES/T) and B763 (G-BNWZ) delivered in Landor long after the world tales were launched. Why DOES this happen? The 763 ('WZ) was certainly delivered to in BA in their (old) Landor livery. But that was on 25 February 1997, more than three months before the worldwid...
Jump to postOthers have commented on the position of Ryanair. However it should be noted that while the UK is not part of the Shenegen area neither is the Republic of Ireland. Both are, however, part of the Common Travel Area (CTA). Note here that while Switzerland is in the Shenegen Area it is not in the EU. A...
Jump to postAt the IAG Markets Day Meeting it was stated that the consolidated revenue yield per square metre across the entire BA long-haul fleet is lower from their F Class cabins than from their J, W or even Y Class cabins. This might be partly because of load factor. It is also likely that the significantly...
Jump to postAccording to Flight24 this aircraft, registered G-POWP to Titan Airways, is now operating the STN-BFS Royal Mail rotation. It has a fairly unusual history for an ex-BA aircraft. It was delivered to BA in September 1993 . This was during the down-turn in commercial aviation following the First Gulf ...
Jump to postUp to and including 2015 the CAA 'G-INFO' web site published annually the Total Time flown by individual aircraft up to 31 December in the previous year. I have this data to 31 December 2013 and to 31 December 2014 for nearly all (40 out of 43) of BA's 772ERs. According to the CAA these 40 aircraft ...
Jump to postAre those 15 options for E-190s all for BA CityFlyer? Would be interesting to see all of those taken up! I cannot see any being operated by BA Mainline Heathrow or even BA Gatwick. And there cannot be enough slots at LCY for BA CityFlyer to base15 additional 190s there on weekdays. So what's left? ...
Jump to postThe tag line at the end of BA's 1989 and later advertisements was: 'Every year . . . the world's favourite airline . . . brings twenty-four million people together.' 'Favourite' and 24 million were almost invariably linked. I don't remember whether the 24 million passengers was based on the number o...
Jump to postThe last page of the report lists the total IAG operational fleet by type as at end 2016 together with outstanding orders and options. These are the order and option numbers: A320: 89 orders, 128 options A321: 17 orders A332: 3 orders, 5 options A333: 2 orders A350: 43 orders, 57 options A380: 7 opt...
Jump to postBritish 763ER Current retirement timetable: G-BNWA: June 2018 G-BNWB: August 2018 G-BNWX: November 2017 G-BNWZ: September 2018 G-BZHA: July 2018 G-BZHB: August 2018 G-BZHC: November 2017 These last seven BA 763s are all configured for short-haul operations. There are two categories of destinations....
Jump to postThe BA Source web site is reporting that by 08:30 this morning BA had cancelled 31 of its scheduled short-haul rotations out of LHR today. I guess that this exceedingly high number is down to Doris.
Jump to postThe Heathrow-com web site provides all the numbers you could want about the airport.. In summary passenger numbers in 2016 totalled 75.7 M with 94 per cent on international flights and 25.7 M or 30 per cent making a transfer at the airport. Less relevant are the number of passengers (31.9 million) a...
Jump to postIt is not irrelevant to this thread to note that BA operated the 763 in both a short-haul and long-haul configuration. Indeed the first five frames delivered to BA in early 1990 were all in their short-haul cabin configuration. Further these initial deliveries replaced twin-aisle L-1011s most signif...
Jump to postBA have wet leased the following aircraft during the current series of Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew strikes: EC-HDS. B752. Privilege Style. 17 to 19 February EC-HHA. A320. Vueling. 9 to 11 January EC-LZO. B763. Privilege Style. 17 to 19 February G-DHJH. A321. Thomas Cook. 16 to 17 February G-FDZT. B738. T...
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