Re: British Airways and the 767

I think my only BA 767 flights were when my flight from Madrid got cancelled due to the French ATC strike earlier this year, and a previous TLV flight. I might be wrong on the TLV flight, I know I have flown the 777 from TLV, but I thought one flight to TLV was on the 767. Yes, totally correct, the...

Re: British Airways and the 767

We had a left hyderaulic system failure last week, then a problem with the autopilot, disconnected and flown manually, a week before had a steering lockout, the list is endless.

Re: British Airways and the 767

dfwjim1 wrote:

It seems like the 767s that American Airlines flies have many mechanical issues; is it the same for the BA 767s?

Re: British Airways and the 767

CarbonFibre wrote:

Had a great full-power departure to MAD in October on BNWX. Runway was wet and one autobrake inop...!

Re: British Airways and the 767

As a frequent sufferer in the past of the BA's "cargo" flights LHR<>MAD on 767, the sooner they are gone, the better. Noisy, uncomfortable and outdated. Cant wait for the farewell. Outdated and noisy yes, comfortable? I’d say much more than the Airbus family. Seat pitch on the 76 is 33” a...

Re: British Airways and the 767

CarbonFibre wrote:

Had a great full-power departure to MAD in October on BNWX. Runway was wet and one autobrake inop...!

Re: British Airways and the 767

Saying that, word around the company is that a certain amount of 788 might end up doing some European routes in the next few years ( rumours) That has been around for a while now and indeed I would not be surprised to see them on some routes that currently see B767 service. The 787-8 and a 9 operat...

Re: British Airways and the 767

They’re knackered and an add mix of ages. G-BNWA/B are by far the oldest aircraft in BA (IAG?), from 1989. The amount of old food in the seat tracks last month on ‘WX was sickening, was in plain sight. Much better on G-EUYS more recently where there’s not enough legroom to be able to see them! They...

Re: British Airways and the 767

No they're explicitly not using long haul on domestics, the A321N is more than enough aircraft really. Thing about using the B763 is that it's too big, you might well fill it on the early morning EDI-LHR but it's empty on the 2300 arrival into EDI the night before. The fact that the flight is compl...

Re: British Airways and the 767

Since the demise of BMI there is no 'non-one world' feed to LHR from GLA/EDI (bar the flybe service) - as a result the BA flights are rammed - especially the early morning departures. Would agree that the planes are very dirty but its still good to fly on a 767 - will be sad to see them go but to b...

Re: British Airways and the 767

ba319-131 wrote:

As of end of December my current remaining 7 BA 763 flight totals are:-

BZHB - 10
BNWA - 7
BZHC - 6
BNWC - 5
BNWX - 5
BNWZ - 5
BZHA - 2

Re: BA IROPS Handling In Recent Snow Storm

No airline can suddenly make 100's of staff just appear and also staff would have struggled to get to work as well. Interesting. Most airlines in the States plan for things like this, it's called a contingency plan. Some airlines have staff that work "ready reserve" much like cabin crew/f...

Re: BA IROPS Handling In Recent Snow Storm

No airline can suddenly make 100's of staff just appear and also staff would have struggled to get to work as well. Interesting. Most airlines in the States plan for things like this, it's called a contingency plan. Some airlines have staff that work "ready reserve" much like cabin crew/f...

Re: BA 'Dove' A319s finally getting repainted

BA will unfortunately not do any retro liveries anymore since the paint bay was closed. The last 757 was done with a mix of old paint, stencils, decals etc that were still in the print shop. It is a shame, but IAG don’t want cost now, so anything like this is unlikely to happen ever again. Shame rea...

Re: British Airways Widebody Fleet Plans

Only 2 767s WA,WB will reach 30 by 2019, 777 will be 30 in 2025.
Plans for the older birds, easy!!! Retirement...
Lots and lots of new A/c due next few years.
Hope this helps.

Re: Virgin Atlantic 747 at LHR tomorrow (Sat 2/09)

El AL, United ??

Re: BA's Next US Destination

I think it will be St. Louis and Indianapolis once the 787-8s arrive ...
Unless somebody else has mentioned that on here already?? No time to read the whole thread...

Re: The Other Most Influencial Airline Execs

We often give credit, both positive and negative, to the CEO of an airline. That is fair, they are at the top and the ultimate leader of their airline and in every regard, from its financial performance to quality of service and employee morale and brand image. However we also know that there are o...

Re: The Other Most Influencial Airline Execs

We often give credit, both positive and negative, to the CEO of an airline. That is fair, they are at the top and the ultimate leader of their airline and in every regard, from its financial performance to quality of service and employee morale and brand image. However we also know that there are o...

Re: BA Terminal 5 and OW Partners

What's the beef with BA handling IB? The amount of transfers from US long haul to MAD made IB a natural T5 fit for feeding that as well as BA to South America over MAD. BA will outsource handling and screw over as many staff as they think they can. Cruz is classic Accenture cost cutting MBA one tri...

Re: PIA tweaked livery

How many liveries had/has this airline had in the last 10 years? Jeez....

Re: BA Terminal 5 and OW Partners

My question pre-dates the current space issue, when BA was looking at moving some of its operations into the new terminal - T5 - was any thought given to moving any partners with them to allow easy transfers?. Of course there was a careful planing... which partially went down the toilet due to the ...

Re: BA Terminal 5 and OW Partners

I don't think the original poster of this thread quite understands how LHR, BA and OW works. The BA Lounges in T5 although probably the largest lounge facilities in LHR are far from the best. T5 is FULL JAL chose themselves which terminal they use in cooperation with HAA (Heathrow Airport) so are t...

Re: BA Terminal 5 and OW Partners

I have heard several rumours that BA will or have lost the ground handling contract for IB at T5, so this does leave the door open to a handler i.e. Menzies etc. I think with all the goings on in the regions (2007) and LGW ramp more recently, Mr Cruz,Walsh plans are to most probably outsource ground...

Re: BA applies to use Qatari aircraft to cover strike

Also arriving this evening is a HiFly Malta A343... 9H-JAI.... ex SQ/EK machine. Think it's 1st flight is an LHR-EDI-LHR rotation tomorrow morning.out at 08:55, back at 13:00 That's just covering for a sick 76, as EDI shuttles are Euro Fleet. Anyway, it would be nice to get on the old coal burner t...

Re: BA LHR Paint Shop

skipness1E wrote:

Who's taking up the BMI hangar? With the Cathedral not going to be around for too long is there any replacement plans?

Re: BA LHR Paint Shop

TBK isn't closed, it's being used as a maintenance hangar as it's common to see heavies in either bay. BA also do A380 heavy checks in SIN, not everything is in-house these days. I am not sure if you are referring to my post? If so TBK was closed as a paint shop on the 7th of April, graphics depart...

Re: BA LHR Paint Shop

Unfortunately BA took the decision to close the paint shop in TBK, and as lots of engineering facilities, is now contracted out.

Re: Why do all cargo containers have an AKE tag on them?

An AKE is a unit load device (ULD) There are all sorts of uld types, with different designations. AKH , AKN, PAG, PMC, and many many more. An AKE is the basic luggage container for widebody aircraft, except the 767. In general for ULD identification, the type comes first (AKE) followed by an ID num...

Re: QF CEO gets pie in the face during speech

Moderators, can you close this thread as it's gone way off track.

Re: Flybe announces flights from London Heathrow

Not to be too negative but I cannot see this working.
BA has the monopoly and can dump capacity on these routes with the 76, cheaper fares and will run them out in 12 months or sooner.
Saying that, good luck to them though.

Re: BA at MAN

It's not that BA created a hub at LHR and LGW after drawing down MAN, they ALWAYS had a hub at LHR, it was the only place that made any real money (allegedly). Point to point from UK regions with BA was decimated when EZY, FR et al came along as BA supported a base at BHX and MAN with feed from oth...

Re: BA at MAN

It's not that BA created a hub at LHR and LGW after drawing down MAN, they ALWAYS had a hub at LHR, it was the only place that made any real money (allegedly). Point to point from UK regions with BA was decimated when EZY, FR et al came along as BA supported a base at BHX and MAN with feed from oth...

Re: What went wrong for BA at LGW

..And SVO.. (?).. I was a newbie back in 1995and rotated down to LGW frequently. I Think SVO started about 96? And yes on the 757. Other routes from 1997 I have on my roster are TLV, and the rest are EDI. I was also doing BHX, JFK, YYZ and GLA, JFK, BOS at the time as well as everything else out of...

Re: WW Shocked To Find Out 3rd LHR Runway Will Raze BA HQ

Duck your head!!

Re: What went wrong for BA at LGW

Did BA ever operate B757's out of LGW ? We used to operate them to Edinburgh too, albeit for a very short time. ..And SVO.. (?).. I was a newbie back in 1995and rotated down to LGW frequently. I Think SVO started about 96? And yes on the 757. Other routes from 1997 I have on my roster are TLV, and ...

Re: What went wrong for BA at LGW

readytotaxi wrote:

Did BA ever operate B757's out of LGW ?

Re: What went wrong forBA at LGW

EasyJet!!!!

Re: EDI expansion plans unveiled.

I think adding bits on (i.e the southeast pier) is like lego land. If EDI wants to compete in the next 10,20,30 years it needs to break away from the 70s building and build a brand spanking new terminal, no more add ons!!!perhaps similar to what Dublin has? Yes agree with 2 high speed exits, 1 at ea...

Re: EDI expansion plans unveiled.

EDI can make do with the current runway for a long time albeit most probably larger exits and toughened taxiways at certain points. Runway 12 was good for visual landings on a clear day a long time ago, but is really much pointless now. A new terminal should be built on the ingliston land , not an &...

Re: Which aircraft types have never had a fatal incident?

That was a 200, Asiana do not operate 300,300ERs
Sorry someone beat me too it..

Re: ZS-SXG status?

A contact in engineering says it is having some yaw damper problems, part fitted incorrectly in JNB, hence SAA staff coming to LHR to fix it.

Re: Cockpit refurbishment over time.

Yes, mostly new carpet, new seat covers, some of the knobs though are changed when a unit is changed,or CRT screens are often swapped out with other units, boxes changed etc . Pretty much everything that is in there is the original from production. On a side note, lots of complaints last year about ...

Re: A Pan Am Paradox

I heard somewhere that the Fokker 100 was supposed to be in there plans?

Re: noisiest aircraft at LHR/LGW

I hate to say it but probably BA 767,747 nowadays, but saying that an Emirates Sky cargo747 took off a few places in front of us at LHR which was quite noisy. Well the BA 767 era at LHR will be over long before any third runway could be built even if the new Prime Minister's first act was to grant ...

Re: noisiest aircraft at LHR/LGW

I hate to say it but probably BA 767,747 nowadays, but saying that an Emirates Sky cargo747 took off a few places in front of us at LHR which was quite noisy.

Re: Dreadful Liveries

Airliners.net new livery is awful lol

Re: What airlines play their own custom soundtrack for boarding/deplaning?

British Airways play flower duet, more so on long haul, although it is common on boarding on short haul.

RE: VY Ground Incident At MAN

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RE: Will BA Adopt BOB For Short-haul Flights?

I am sure that will go down well with the gold card holders on the shuttle!!!