Scottish Airports receive £6 million boost

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When I was up last August there seemed to be millions and millions of British Airways BAe 146’s!! Every 1 in 3/4 aircraft landign was a Bae146 and then a 737 of BA was never short behind. Mind you Go and easyJet also had a hell of alot of traffic with Go seeming to have the most.

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I delivered an empty 757-200 from LGW to GLA about 6 weeks ago, that was the last time I was there. We had stunning sunset views fromover the Lake District of the Isle Of Man, Northern Ireland, Northumberand, Cumbria, Borders and most of southern Scotland.
By the way, my brother used to fly G-BIKB a few years ago.

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Oh well, my chance to fly on it would appear to have gone !

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G-BIKB, serial number 22173, was transferred to the Belgian register on the 1st of July this year.

So, yes, presumably it’s now with DHL.

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Yeah it will definitely be 20 years in Feb 2003 since BA introduced the 757 onto the shuttle routes. I was in 1st year at secondary school at the time.

I found a pic of G-BIKB on Airliners.net taken in 2001, still in BA colours but thought that it may have been sold on to DHL for crago conversion by Boeing.

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Ren… I was wondering a while ago… ywenty years, you reckon since the 757 started the shuttle…

My first flight was BA GLA-LHR at Easter 85… it’s the only flight I’m not totally sure what aircraft it was… any ideas?

I’ve since travelled on 757s, 737-300/400’s, BAC 1-11’s and A319/320’s on the route. But that first flight is still bugging me as to what it was… :S

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Yeah Brittania are probably the largest regular 757 operator out of GLA. BA used to have that plaudit with the shuttle services, but mainly on 737s and Airbus these days.

ALthough you must have made a few visits yourself with JMC’s fleet wysiwyg ?

Speaking of BA 757’s… It’s nearly 20 years since they entered service and therefore 20 years since I legged it out of school one February morning to see the first one arrive at Glasgow as part of the Trident replacement fleet on the LHR shuttle route. The machine was G-BIKB. Anyone know where she is now ? DHL perhaps ?

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i’ve just tried Scandic so don’t u go too!! 😛

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Spoke to my mates wife this morning. Turns out he’s swapping over to Britannia in January as there is a better chance of getting a GLA base there.

SkyCruiser – Worth shoving a CV at Air Scotland? And Air Scandic for that matter.

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You may be able to get in touch with them via the website wysiwyg, The story was a little column in the Glasgow Evening Times. From what I gather the airline will provide cheap holiday flights to the continent on behalf of the parent travel agency that set it up. These flights I understand will operate from Prestwick.

As for the Glasgow/Prestwick thing… I guess it’s all down to good old demographics. Glasgow Airport is on the edge of the city, ten mins drive from the city centre (Kingston Bridge permitting) and only five mins drive from the nearest railway station (Paisley Gilmour St).

Admittedly Prestwick is on the same rail line into Glasgow and now has it’s own station, but it’s still some 20 odd miles away from Glasgow and I’d imagine the majority of travellers prefer having an airport on their doorstep. I have to admire however, the steps being taken by the company running Prestwick to breath new life into the place, as Glasgow seems to be under some kind of ‘anti-growth’ starngle hold by BAA. There are some murmurs about Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority (SPT) getting involved with Glasgow Airport as they don’t like BAA’s Glasgow/Edinburgh monopoly and they see Edinburgh as receiving favoured status by BAA and others in the coming years, despite Glasgow’s superior status in terms of passenger usage.

SPT of course also have a vested interest in the setting up of the proposed new Glasgow Airport rail link. Something that may come about sooner if they had overall control of the airport methinks.

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What I have never understood, is why Prestwick airport was virtually abandoned in favour of making Glasgow Airport. I am not quite sure about the history of this two airports, but being Prestwick older, it seems to me quite reduntant making another second airport. I would love hearing your comments about this.

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I’d be grateful for any more info you can supply on this as a 757 rated pal of mine is desperate to leave his current Newcastle base and get back home to Scotland.