Re: 19 seaters in Europe

Back in the day I recall flying with Manx Airlines on IOM-UK domestic routes in Shorts 360 and Jetstream 31s - a type also flown by Eastern Airways [UK]. Eadtern flew the Jetstream 41, but I think they sat around 30 people.

I think British Midland also flew the Shorts 360 on short UK domestic routes.

When where and why did you last fly pre Covid?

This thread is really targeted at people like me who since Covid became an issue have been shielding/isolating/locking down - voluntarily or otherwise and therefore not travelling. However anyone can join in if they like. My last flight before Covid was November 2019. It was Tirana to London Gatwick...

Re: France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights where same journey could be made by train in under 2,5 hours

Those routes are already dominated by trains. If they expand that to international routes, that would be more impactful. How many International routes in France are reachable by 2.5 hours or less via train? CDG>BRU is the only route off-hand I can think of which is a whopping 1x daily on SN. The Lo...

Re: Airports you have visited but not flown to/through

Only a couple for me. I picked up a hire car at Denver airport and had a coffee in the terminal building at Shoreham.

I have been into one of the buildings at what was Croydon airport the original London airport, that is now a hotel - but the site has long since stopped being an airport.

Re: Indian Carriers Vistara and SpiceJet Bag Coveted London Heathrow LHR Slots for S21

i wonder how vistara and spicejet got some slots when jetblue got none. just a thought... JetBlue did get LHR slots. Probably one of the biggest beneficiaries! They got a whopping 270 slots. https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/03/27/jetblue-bamboo-airways-westjet-secure-london-heathrow-slots/ Not sure bu...

Re: American Airlines LHR slots

Did AA lose or gain any slots during the pandemic? What about BA (since they're in a JV)? In N. Summer 2020 AA were allocated 9,548 slots. This summer AA have 7,798 slots. There is therefore a significant reduction in the number of slots available for AA to use in Summer 2021 compared to last year....

Re: Titan A321neo ops for UK government

I see the MRTT on FR24 out tanking over the North Sea most of the time. I did and still do wonder why the government even need it ? Something A321 sized is probably plenty though. Can we expect a NATO grey respray for the A330 anytime soon ? ;-) I guess Covid 19 has put an end to big royal and gove...

Re: help list movies about flying, airports, or airplanes

'Diverted' a TV/DVD movie about diversions to Gander during the 9/11 crisis has plenty of on board filming in the early and latter part of the film plus a certain amount of landing and apron sequences. It isn't however a particularly good film from other points of view.

Re: Next airline to get a new livery?

I wish British airways would.. theirs is starting to look a little dated and must be 20 years old now! BA's livery will be 23 this year. I agree they could do with a new one, but its not terrible imo and an update would be IB/EI style I fear. I have the same fear. I could see them going down the Lu...

Re: Criminalising Passengers During Evacuations?

I have completed the survey but one issue I have is that in practice whether an action could be considered illegal would likely depends on the situation. For example I have my lap top on my knee when an emergency exit is required. If I just keep it in my hand and take it with me should that be a cri...

Re: CSA/Czech Airlines collapse imminent - all staff furloughed

It makes sense, Yugoslavia ceased to exist nearly 2 decades ago so why keep it in the (national) airline's name? Why do they still call CSA (Československé státní aerolinie=Czechoslovak State Airlines) CSA then? They do still use the "CSA" abbreviation, but officially changed their name t...

Re: UA announces BOS-LHR

To hit the 50% threshold UA would need to operate 1x daily EWR, IAD, ORD, IAH, DEN, SFO, LAX, a cargo only flight, as well as BOS this would get us to 9x daily nonstop flights. If we operate 2x daily out of EWR with 1x daily from all other hubs plus a cargo only flight and the BOS flight that would...

Re: British Airways Fleet Thread - 2021

Does anyone have any insight as to why BA continued to take deliveries of its A350-1000s and 777-300ERs over the last year but not these latest 787-10s?

Re: BA lesser known discontinued services

OZperso wrote:

Whatever happened to their Luanda route? It was formerly serviced with 788s and 789s?

Re: BA lesser known discontinued services

Pretty sure BMED used to fly to Alexandria and Addis Ababa in the early 2000s? BA served SSH quite recently from LGW. Not sure if BA ever flew to HRG or LXR though. I remember waiting at LHR for a flight and at the next gate was a BA Tristar leaving to LXR via CAI. As I wasn’t taking the flight I d...

Re: Short-haul aircraft like KL 747 Combi?

I recall many years ago flying LHR-BRU on a Sabena 737 combi which had the seating behind the cargo area. I don’t recall off the top of my head which variant of the 737 it was but I suspect it was the 200 series.

Re: Earliest departures/arrivals

I was just looking at LHR arrivals on FR24 and they show ANA flight from HND due LHR at 1535 arrived at 1416, 79 minutes early. A long flight so perhaps not that excessive - and I know from past experience flights from the far east to LHR often arrive 30/45 minutes early. Meanwhile BA 1449 from EDI ...

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread - 2021

G-STBO made a Functional Test Flight at Jan 5th 2021 with callsign BA9172, so the aircraft ownership must have been transferred already. See : https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GSTBO/history/20210105/1915Z/KPAE/KPAE The delivery flights of G-STBO and G-STBP are scheduled for Jan 7th and 9th. G-ST...

Re: Any A318 flights left ?

PlymSpotter wrote:

AF have operated CDG-LHR with the A318 in the past few days - saw it myself this afternoon in a brief break from the cloud.

Re: Break journey - how do we do it?

My advice would be to make your stop over decision before you book and as has already been suggested make a multi-city rather than return booking and you may well find the difference in price between the two options is fairly small. Next part of the question: Return fare YUL-DEL-YUL will be cheaper...

Re: Top 5 most missed Airlines ?

I miss these because they provided me with some of my flying firsts:

British Caledonian - first flight and first intercontinental flight
Varig - first transatlantic flight
Ansett - first domestic flight in an overseas country
Dan Air - first turboprop and first four engined jet [BAE146].

Re: Break journey - how do we do it?

the OP mentions that his relatives made an impromptu change to their ticket which implies the ticket was already booked and paid for when they made that decision to stop over in GVA was made. In days gone by I did a very similar thing changing my LHR- ADD-LHR ticket to LHR-ADD-FCO-LHR after I had al...

Re: Alternative to airlineroute?

The person who wrote all the posts on airlineroute is on LinkedIn trying to find himself a job (the fact that we all wanted a free website may be a reason why !) but seems to be looking at a project called The AeroNetwork Awesome thanks for the hint Found his current twitter feed, which contains mo...

Re: New airline for the Canary Islands

It's somewhat surprising that Tenerife and Scotland have a similiar flag and that the new carrier is choosing to use a livery almost identical to the long defunct Air Scotland / Greece Airways THe tail is a derivative of the St Andrew’s cross and St Andrew is the Patron saint for Tenerife as well a...

Re: Should QF purchase the 77W/779?

VSMUT wrote:

They already selected the A350-1000 for their future needs, so no, they don't really need the 777-9 and they definitely don't need the old 777-300ER.

Re: Feeling nostalgic about 747s. Who’s have you flown?

jumpjets wrote:

QF
BA
RG
VS
MH
AC

Re: Your 2020 Booked/Flown Flights

Sadly the easiest posting I have made on this site.

I have not been on a single flight all year.

Re: Unusual Widebody Movements

This isn't much of a surprise to me. Go back a few years and IST was always a frequent BA 767 destination - double daily if my memory serves me correctly. With TK no longer flying multiple daily widebodies into LHR, there is substantially reduced cargo capacity. It’s not so bad. According to Fr24 T...

Re: Feeling nostalgic about 747s. Who’s have you flown?

QF
BA
RG
VS
MH
AC

Re: What’s the most famous airport in the world?

Maybe we could add BER given the pages and pages of journalistic attention over the decade plus of its commissioning!! Sorry - I'm indulging in schadenfreude!! I think BER might fall into the category of infamous rather than famous, as was Heathrow T5 when it first opened. Which makes me think that...

Re: BA 767s: Where did they fly?

This thread just demonstrates how flexible aircraft can be. I flew BA 767s on routes as short as LHR-MAN and CDG but also to TLV and ACC. I was also scheduled to fly all the way to DAR on a 767 but I had to cancel the trip and shortly after BA cancelled the route so I never got to go that far.

Re: How are Titan Airways doing post March

A Titan 757 arrived into Heathrow this morning just before 0900. A quick look at FR24 informs me it was G-POWH from GEO [Georgetown Guyana] having flown there from LPA on 10th November. Again as per FR24 it had been at LPA since arriving there from Stansted on 3rd November. I am guessing it was a Co...

Alternative to airlineroute?

For many a year I have relied on airlineroute (part of routesonline.com) for a daily update on changes to airline routes/schedules/aircraft flown and so on, but now it has temporarily, I hope, closed down the service. I have subscribed to some routesonline newsletters but they don't have the same fo...

Re: Would you fly a low cost airline on a flight over 6 hours?

I would consider flying a low cost carrier if they have a reasonable reputation, such as Norweigian, [my home airports are LGW and LHR] - but as with any air travel for me it comes down to leg room and price and convenient schedule - and certainly on shorthaul Norwegian offer as much leg room as say...

Re: List of biggest/ largest bizliners

List of other earlier 747 VIP airliners Morocco 747-400 CN-RGA acquired 2020 via Royal Air Maroc which first flew it 1993 Brunei 747-400 V8-ALI acquired new 1992 and stored at MZJ in 2018 Oman 747-400 A40-OMN acquired new 2001 Oman 747SP A40-SO acquired 1984 but first flown by Braniff 1979 Saudi Ar...

Re: Going out of your way to fly a special type

When I am booking the airline/aircraft type is a factor in helping me to decide which option to take but I am generally only prepared to pay a relatively small surcharge for the privilege or to extend my journey by only a couple of hours or so - eg. from LHR- HAN/SGN-LHR I opted for an indirect rout...

Re: 4 BA 380s on the way out

https://twitter.com/mzulqarnainbut1/status/1303697227538411522?s=21 Looking like 4 380s might be on the way out for BA I seem to remember that at the IAG second quarter results announcement it was stated that four A380s were temporarily put in store, so maybe this is just a reiteration of this poli...

Re: BA service to Australia over the years

[quote="USAirALB"][quote="SueD"] I recall QF serving MAN, but I don't remember it being so (relatively in the grand scheme of things) recent. Where was the stopover and what was the equipment? [quote="ZK-NBT"][quote="USAirALB"] On one occasion back around 1980...

Re: Tunisia charter flights over 70s 80s 90s

My first ever flight in Feb1972 was from LGW-TUN on a British Caledonion BAC 1-11 500. The flight was part of a package holiday so I expect back in the day that would almost certainly have been a charter flight but I dont know for sure. Unfortunately i was of an age where my dad sorted everything ou...

Re: Future of IAG post-pandemic

To boost its liquidity IAG plans €2.75bn billion rights issue. Also will shuffleboard with Qatar Airways as the largest shareholder proposing two new directors to join the board. BA parent IAG launches €2.75bn rights issue as losses swell https://www.ft.com/content/55a792e3-dd76-4e3a-9c0b-c22bebd9e...

Re: Your first 747/A340/A380 sightings

The first 747 I saw was a Qantas 742 [I think] at MAN as I started a journey to ATH [the old one]. My second was in Athens at the other end of that same flight - this time though it belonged to Olympic Airways. The first A380 I spotted was one of Airbuses own test planes on a trip to LHR and the fir...

Re: Updated: BA fleet parking, will retire 747 fleet

At least the BA 744s had a bit of a swansong with the repainting of three of them into 'heritage' livery for last year's anniversary celebrations. Maybe a little flypast of four 744s in the BOAC, Negus, Landor and current [chatham dockyard?] liveries over Heathrow one afternoon could be arranged jus...

Re: End of an era: Last Qantas 747 retired today

My first ever flight on the Queen of the Skies was LHR-BKK on a QF 747-200. Happy days.

Re: Future of AirAsia in "Significant Doubt" - auditor Ernst & Young

I anticipate that many companies issuing their financial statements in the near future will find their auditors adding an emphasis of matter on going concern to their audit report as companies struggle to generate cash flows. This may be a particularly bad case to merit being mentioned on the BBC we...

Re: British Airways 787-10

Does anyone have a full explanation of why the delivery was four months late? I know covid 19 will be a factor in extending the delay but the delivery was running late even before that became an issue.

Re: IB announces the retirement of A346 fleet

What really needs to happen is BA's A350/787 deliveries to get rid of the fuel hog B744's. Iberia is more efficient than BA already... I agree that this is an admirable aim but it is also worth looking at the relative size of the two fleets. According to airliners.net IB has a longhaul fleet of 32 ...

Re: British Airways to take delivery of first 787-10 arriving at LHR around 8am on 21 May 2020

Ishrion wrote:

So... looks like Sunday delivery it is?

Re: British Airways to take delivery of first 787-10 arriving at LHR around 8am on 21 May 2020

Why would an airline that is struggling to survive be spending money on a brand new airplane? Makes no sense. Part of ANY government assistance should include NO NEW AIRPLANES at all until the TAXPAYERS are made whole and 100% of the government assistance is paid in full! Didn’t Willie Walsh say so...

Re: An Avianca plane lands in Tokyo for the very first time

All long haul South American airlines are flying cargo out of China these days: In addition to Avianca, AR is doing EZE-AKL-PVG a few times a week. LA is doing SCL-AKL-PVG LATAM Brazil has also been doing some charters to Asia as well (Bali)/ I think this is true of many countries as they try and s...

Re: Rare and Short Lived Airline/Aircraft Combinations

When BA took over BMI they acquired a couple of leased Airbus A330s which i believe went back to the lessors fairly quickly after the takeover. I haven't been able to find any pictures of the A330s in any sort of BA livery so I am guessing that for the short time BA flew them they maintained their B...