I would have thought that the main reason for selling these items is promotional. When you go out with your UA baseball cap you will be a walking promotional billboard. And instead of UA having to buy the advertising space you paid for it! So even if you only put it on indoors UA are still some cent...
Jump to postWhile all Airbus aircraft carry either French or German TEST registrations on all flights made before delivery even to French and German airlines, this is not the case with Boeing aircraft. So, for example, the majority of BA's Boeing aircraft have been test flown painted with their FUTURE British r...
Jump to postDuring the 2016 Summer Season BA scheduled Mid-haul 321s on selected flights between LHR and seven of their short-haul destinations: ABZ (BA1316/17). Daily x 6&7 from 27 March ARN (BA776/77). Days 1&6 from 27 March ATH (BA640/41). Daily x 6&7 from 27 March FCO (BA556/57). Daily from 1 Ma...
Jump to postPosters seem quite certain that the A319 is too small. I don't believe that is the case. The 319 is too expensive, on a per seat basis, compared to its larger siblings. It is entirely possible that the 150-160 seat CS300 would open up new markets to LHR, MAD, DUB, FLR, BCN hubs that an A320 is just...
Jump to postIf the remaining ones aren't too high-time or high-cycle, it might be worth to move them to MAN for some long-haul service. The four youngest operational BA 763s are G-BNWZ and G-BZHA, 'HB and 'HC. According to the CAA G-INFO web site they had accumulated 48,277, 44,991, 44,538 and 45,270 flight ho...
Jump to postPhilly was the launch destination for the 747-400 I think, and the jumbo is making a return on BA67/66 this summer season. Yes. The inaugural BA 744 commercial flight was BA219 (LHR-PHL-PIT) operated by G-BNLC on 28 July 1989. This flight on this routing was still being operated by a 744 as at the ...
Jump to postFifty pairs of tickets on this Mardi Gras flight were auctioned on e-bay. The auction closed on 11 December last. The auctioned tickets cover the return air fare, transfers, three nights accommodation in New Orleans and grand stand tickets for the Mardi Gras parade. Ten per cent of the auction incom...
Jump to postCCU hasn't seen a direct service to LHR since AI pulled out in the mid-2000s. BA, much earlier than that. I flew LHR-CCU on 772 G-YMME (BA147) on 4 November 2008 and CCU-LHR on 772 G-YMMD (BA145) on 18 November. My best recollection is that BA suspended this service on 29 March 2009 but it could ha...
Jump to postBA flew LHR-MSY-MEX before they flew LHR-MEX direct. I think that may have been in the late 80s or very early 90s. Anyone know for sure?
Jump to postoldannyboy wrote:Slightly off-topic, I know... but could you confirm the 789 to have different Y seats (wee bit wider) from the original and much maligned 788 ones?
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BA don't offer anything extra that the other airlines don't The Press Release says these flights will be operated by BA CityFlyer E190s. BACF's E190s are configured with 98 seats, They have 24 rows (2 to 25) configured 2 - 2 while Row 1 is configured 2 - 0.. So every passenger gets an aisle or a wi...
Jump to postI am somewhat dubious about all these suggestions that BA might look east for new destinations. Why? Well their last two excursions into this area have not been very successful. They launched a much trumpeted LHR-CTU service on 22 September 2013, switched to the 787 on this route on 4 May 2014 and t...
Jump to postSo the deal with Comair has been cancelled? http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/airportnewsroom/#/pressreleases/air-service-tender-launched-1684434 What he above link yo the St Helena Government document says is that the contract referred to is for an interim period. It reads that the tender is: '. . . t...
Jump to postReally interesting info, thanks. Did you get it from The BA Source. The excellent 'The BA Source' only goes back to mid 2012 in any detail. So you will only find the four months detail I quoted on LHR-LGW positioning flights on that site. To access that data go to the 'BA Trackers' section and sele...
Jump to postI feel BA at Gatwick is just a base that has spare planes when it comes to long haul aircraft (772) Three of BA's 772s, G-VIIO, IP and 'IR were ferried directly to LGW after they were delivered by Boeing in the early part of 1999. They have operated BA's Caribbean and Florida flights ever since the...
Jump to postKLM and/or KLM Cityhopper does all the AMS-UK flying for the group, and possibly there just isn't the demand from the Dutch side for flights to the UK from RTM and EIN (i.e. tourists going there from the UK, yes, but perhaps it's not worth it from the Dutch side to fly from RTM or EIN when you can ...
Jump to postOn 5 November 2003 BA Concorde G-BOAG was given special permission to fly JFK-BFI at supersonic speeds over northern Canada. This was its last flight to the Museum of Flight, Seattle. It was timed at a new point-to point record of 3 hours, 55 minutes and 12 seconds. But that flight was the exception...
Jump to postI still think BOAB should be put in the big roundabout leading up to T5. Plenty of room for her there. Either that or put her out of her misery and peacefully scrap her. The original plan post the 'inside T5' plan was said to be to display it on the roundabout at the entrance to the tunnel to the L...
Jump to postMy question is, is there any more of these opportunities left in the world? One possibility is the Loganair Orkney Island services off the north coast of Scotland. They link Kikwall with Eday, North Ronaldsway, Papa Westray, Sanday, Stronsay and Westray. The most famous of these flights is the worl...
Jump to postWhy are some of the BA Concordes positioned in the BA maintenance hangars at LHR occasionally? Few months back I saw G-BOAB in the maintenance hangar which brought back memories. For minor maintenance. For example back in the second half of October 2015 the LHR Concorde, G-BOAB, was given a thoroug...
Jump to postBack in the mid '70s BA had a problem on the LHR-LAX route. They had two aircraft types with sufficient range to operate to LAX. However their 747s were too large to operate that route economically. The 707s they were using were uncompetitive against the twin-aisle aircraft flown by PA and TW on thi...
Jump to postAbout the closest you would've seen to dual-use, was Braniff and British Airways + Air France switching off on the latters' Concordes for IAD-DFW. Not only dual use but dual registration in order to comply with FAA regulations. To facilitate the dual use BA changed the registration of is Concorde f...
Jump to postI've always considered Chelsea Rose one of the best World Tails. Another tail, that some may say is lacking in color, is the Rendezvous/Hong Kong tail. I appreciate the simplicity of it and thought it looked wonderful on the 744. The evidence suggests that BA insiders had similar thoughts. Of cours...
Jump to postGeographically London could have been in the same league, but there are a few obstacles. First of all western Denmark to London is LCC territory, so no interlining. Secondly, London has so many airports, making transit too cumbersome in most cases. BA offers ten weekly A319 (twice daily on Days 1, ...
Jump to postThree of the tail designs were competition winners, The competition was sponsored by BA and used the Sunday Times newspaper as the promotional media, The winner of the Art Student category was a mature student studying textile design, Pierce Casey, with his 'Chelsea Rose' design, This design was ver...
Jump to postWhat surprised me is the data in the Wiki link. It shows LHR passenger numbers increasing by almost 10M or 15 per cent over six years. LHR passenger numbers were 65,881,660 in 2010. Last year they are reported as being 75,676,000. Sorry, but LHR performance is disappointing, if you consider the air...
Jump to postI'm amazed that even after all these years and despite all the procrastination about the third runway, LHR manages to keep its crown. Just goes to show how damn important London is to the global economy. What surprised me is the data in the Wiki link provided by 'wolbo' above. It shows LHR passenge...
Jump to postBA obtains a very large proportion of its revenue in foreign currency. For example at the last IAG Markets Meeting on 4 November it was stated that 60 per cent of BA's long-haul passenger revenue was obtained outside the UK. It was also stated that while 40 per cent of revenue on services to the USA...
Jump to postWhen discussing the cost (and profit) of a cup of coffee or other non-alcoholic drink served in the air and comparing it with the cost of the same in a fast food chain or other land based facility posters have overlooked an important cost difference. All seem to have forgotten the weight of fluids a...
Jump to postAs this topic has been beaten to death, let's all get it out in the open one last time! The requirement for cabin crews are based on the actual number of seats in the cabin. So, if the cabin has 151 seats and 1 passenger booked, then it will need 4 cabin crew. For each 50 SEATS, you need 1 cabin cr...
Jump to postThe overwhelmingly limiting factor on air traffic movements at LHR is wake turbulence. This is illustrated by a timing study I carried out at LHR over a period of three hours and eighteen and a half minutes during which there were 136 arrivals. In this study I noted the following: Average time betwe...
Jump to postThe London Heathrow web site reports that 32 per cent (24 million) of all passengers using the airport in 2015 were transfer passengers. As it does not qualify this figure I believe it will include passengers originating at other UK airports and those arriving and then transferring to a domestic fli...
Jump to postFrom Gaskell, Keith, 'British Airways - Its History, Aircraft and Liveries', Airlife 1999, p.93: 'A new livery for the emerging airline was announced as early as July 1973 and began to appear in September . . . The first aircraft to be rolled out was BOAC Boeing 707 G-AXXY and others soon followed, ...
Jump to post777PHX wrote:BA doesn’t even sell F class on this route.
Ummmmm.........BA is a profitable, larger, successful airline. Ain't no bailouts of airlines here in the UK. Not quite. http://www.tourmag.com/Subsidies-the-state-aid-that-companies-would-like-to-forget_a67729.html Pre-privatisation when BA was owned and controlled by the British government it was ...
Jump to postThere are six weekend scheduled BA cargo flights into and out of LHR operated for them by DHL: BA3401 operates BRU-LHR on a Saturday arriving mid afternoon. BA3402/03 operates LHR-AMS-LHR on a Saturday early afternoon. BA3404/05 operates LHR-CDG-LHR early and late Saturday evening. BA3406 operates L...
Jump to postIt is correct that LHR-SIN-SYD-SIN-LHR (BA015/16) was operated by a 772 up until 23 March 2012 when it was flown by G-YMMG, However the following day this rotation was operated by 'Mid J' 744 G-CIVD. Then every flight on this routing up until the introduction of the 77W was operated by a 'Mid J' 744...
Jump to postUntil the start of the 2013 Summer Season BA operated a 'Mid J' configured, 337 seat B 744 to SYD. Since then they have operated their 297 seat 77W on the Kangaroo route. The configuration of this type, F14 / J56 / W44 / Y183,. is more premium-rich than the 744s previously operated (F14 / J52 / W36 ...
Jump to postAll 12 BA A380s were assembled at TLS. All 12 were then ferried to XFW mostly as part of their first flight. At XFW all 12 were painted and had their cabins outfitted. After painting and outfitting all 12 were then ferried back to TLS. , Nearly all other 380s have been delivered at XFW. Why were BA'...
Jump to postWith the dominance of BA and CX on UK-HKG routings any JV approved by the competition authorities would most certainly require BA and CX to surrender valuable LHR slots to benefit the consumer by maintaining some reasonable level of competition as they required for both the BA/AA JV and the BA purch...
Jump to postLess (5 per cent) working days (Monday through Friday) in October 2016 (21) than October 2015 (22)? Particularly on low frequency routes any cancellation of flights this year at the end of the review period (resulting in the transfer of some passengers into the following period) or a similar transfe...
Jump to postThere were 24 frames in the old 'Hi J' configuration. Eighteen were reconfigured to the new 'Super Hi J' configuration. Additionally all the seats of these 18 were fitted with the new Panasonic eX3 IFE System and all their cabins were re-carpeted and re-curtained. Their W and Y Class seats were also...
Jump to postSome of the preceding respondents will be familiar with the configuration of the former BD, now BA, mid-haul configured 321s used primarily on Middle East flights to destinations such as AMM, BEY and CAI, Others will not be familiar with these aircraft and their configuration. So for this latter gro...
Jump to postPersonally I'd love to see the traditional red, white and black Loganair identity return to the skies. It already is, to a degree: 4055809 This Saab 340 together with G-GNTF are freighters. Both have been based at INV. At night time they have been dedicated to operating mail flights between INV and...
Jump to postThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on property prices values on actual sale prices, Nationally the published ONS house price inflation rate over the 12 months ending end-June 2016 was 10.2 per cent, They report that this figure was mainly driven by the London area where house pr...
Jump to postI wold guess that most of today's traffic from LON to HRE is flying LHR-JNB-HRE by BA / BA Comair. So even if sanctions were lifted I cannot see BA rushing to start a LON-HRE direct service. They would gain little for the significant increase in costs of, for example, opening a new station at HRE.. ...
Jump to postWillie Walsh's statements are nothing to do with monopolies, everything to do with costs. BA is by far and away Heathrow Airports largest customer. So what WW is saying is: 'Look. BA's HQ cost £200M to build in 1995-98. So if we allow for a five per cent per annum rise in London property prices/cost...
Jump to postGB Airways was originally named Gibair. It was formed in 1933 by a shipping company, M H Bland, to operate between Gibraltar and Tangiers. \subsequently Gibair ceased operation. However BEA bought a controlling 51 per cent stake in the dormant airline in 1947 and reactivated its operations. Initiall...
Jump to postNote that while July 2015 included four Saturdays (4th, 11th, 18th and 25th) and four Sundays (5th, 12th, 19th and 26th), July 2016 included both five Saturdays (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th) and five Sundays (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st). This makes a significant difference, particularly if the...
Jump to postPp 107-110 of: Orlebar, Christopher, 'The Concorde Story', Sixth edn, Osprey Publishing, Oxford. 2004 describes the training of Concorde pilots in some detail. Here are a few short extracts: 'On Concorde the simulator training lasts 76 hours - 19 4 hour details (50 hours are spent on the B747-400).'...
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