Tommy's Question Thread

The DC-9, BAC 1-11 and Caravelle had them, too.

And in fact, Skydive Perris still use stairs in the rear of their DC-9-21 – the jumpers go out of the back.

Andy

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/traveller-tips/top-timekillers-airports-unique-attractions-20100119-miuj.html

Nooo, say it here! Give this superthread some meaning! 🙂

It’s killed the Tristar thread. I shall have to keep the horrors of the number two engine change for another time!

Rgds Cking

But what do I know?

Evidently not enough to know that combining these threads was actually a very good idea. 😉

I agree, why would you combine so many different subjects into to one thread? Very bad decision IMO. But what do I know?

Good attempt to narrow the field with this, but unfortunately I’ve now lost track of what’s going on in this thread…….

I don’t think that a translatlantic would work from LBA. You MAN not far and more airlines are their eg Virgin Atlantic. I know that if I was living in that area i’d more likely go to MAN to use an airline like VS.

I love this thread, it’s so ridiculous and random! 😀

Re: Tristars

It certainly is.

It hasn’t gone anywhere.

Oh Grey! I thought the Tristar one was quite interesting.

Rgds Cking

Actually the first two PSA L-1011’s went to Aero Peru then Worldways Canada. The first ended up as the Operation Blessing hospital aircraft.

LTU got the last three of PSA’s L-1011 directly from the factory.

The lower lounges were deactivated and the area seal off. There was no way to open forward cargo door as the actuating mechanisums were never installed on the five PSA airframes with the lower lounges.

All cargo was carried in the mid and aft cargo compartments.

I stand corrected. It had neaver occured to me that Lockheed would build them without the door mechanisms. Was the door there?
I worked at LTU for a while at the end of their Tristar days. There was a Turkish guy in the workshops who worshipped the things. He had the entire ceiling covered with models of them.

Rgds Cking

:D:D This smacks of favourtism!;)

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There you go, Tommy. A thread of your very own.

Please post any further questions you may have in here.

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GA

Well Kos should operate from LBA and so should a transatlantic route.

Why Kos ? do you know somthing that the airlines dont ?

The First PSA one’s ended up at LTU. They tried everything to get passengers to fly in the lower lounge but as it was just a windowless box, they failed. Also, in the charter operation the passengers carried more luggage and without the front freight bay they had trouble getting all the bags on board. So they removed it.

Rgds Cking

Actually the first two PSA L-1011’s went to Aero Peru then Worldways Canada. The first ended up as the Operation Blessing hospital aircraft.

LTU got the last three of PSA’s L-1011 directly from the factory.

The lower lounges were deactivated and the area seal off. There was no way to open forward cargo door as the actuating mechanisums were never installed on the five PSA airframes with the lower lounges.

All cargo was carried in the mid and aft cargo compartments.

I believe that the Worldways Canada Tristars (which were used for a couple of summers from LBA amongst other places), also featured a downstairs bar-lounge, which was well frequented on the transatlantic flights. Did they utilise former PSA aircraft

The Worldways Canada L-1011 were previously operated by PSA and Aero Peru. The lower lounges were deactivated before Worldways took delivery.

As far as im aware Jet2 will be useing there first 767 if they get it in service for May as sceduled on there exisiting routes operating around the UK network of airports on a W pattern! I agree with you Josh it will proberly be used on the Bucket and Spade Runs to TFS etc TOM,TCX and MON have in the past put there wide bodies on those flights in the summer season! 2011 will be when Jet2 push the boat out with the 767. I cant see them jumping into anything major very quickly though Mr Meason will want assurances that there is the Demand for the routes before he commits to them!

Agreed on the questions One thread simply labled ” A few questions” Would Surfice!

http://avherald.com/h?article=4279fcfe&opt=0

1. Kos – Perhaps, only if Jet2 holidays was involved and only a small frequency, no point really with MAN down the road.
2. Luxor – Nope
3. New York Liberty or JFK – Not sure where Liberty is, i believe the place you mean is Newark. Again, no, not viable during current times and competing with MAN.
4. Orlando – Simple no
5. Toronto Pearson – Maybe a once weekly charter with Air Transat
6. Berlin – Hmm, with Jet2 no…..but maybe say Air Berlin?
7. Munich – Nope
8. Funchal – Nope
9. Marrakesh – Nope
10. Dominican Republic – Never

You seem to be under the impression that the 767s will be used to launch new long haul routes. I doubt Jet2 will use them for that straight away, they will more likely than not end up at MAN doing Canary runs or something, but I strongly believe that LS will not make the same mistakes that others in the past have.

Also, as much as we all love you on this forum, these threads are getting stupid now. Why not just make one thread, “Tommy’s question chit chat time” that way the forum isn’t spammed with question after question:rolleyes: