With the British Airways strike ongoing, I was wondering, what aircraft will they be chartering as part of their plan to fly 50% of their passengers?
I live in Surrey, not far from Heathrow, right below the Middle-East/Asia departure flight-path and while enjoying the sun noticed what seemed to be a Jet2 757-200 fly overhead.
I’d be interested to know if anyone knows what aircraft/airlines will be chartered, and if anyone has any shots that would be awesome!
Jet2 in Heathrow..how odd!!:p
By: Dantheman77 - 22nd March 2010 at 09:15
You mean Ryanair or Ryan Air International from the USA? I can’t see BA swallowing its price and accepting Ryanair’s help. It would give Ryanair too much ammunition for a new PR campaign.
Michael O’Leary has been quite hard on the unions, and even supporting BA.
The not the usual MOL rheotoric, he must be still in a good mood after one of his horses won at the Cheltnam festival last week :diablo:
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd March 2010 at 06:42
I live in a small village NE of Tonbridge, Kent. As I’m not completely au fait with the Heathrow flight paths, am I likely to see anything unusual outside?
By: David Kerr - 21st March 2010 at 22:54
Well I suppose that if we are to believe Unite, there are now (time 1530) 140 BA aircraft parked up at LHR, in addition to the 20 at CWL and 20 at SNN. OF which we know that aren’t 20 aircraft at CWL (only 5 in maintenance & 2 stored) and have seen reports that there are zero in SNN. But the 5 aircraft at EDI have not been mentioned by them!?! Which begs the question of why bother to believe anything that union is putting out?
By: Bograt - 21st March 2010 at 21:35
It was rather gruesome, wasn’t it? I was visiting my daughter just close to Isleworth and they were popping out of the cloud at a few hundred feet.
Definitely a Euroatlantic 757, plus some other schemes that weren’t instantly recogniseable. It’ll be interesting to download the movements later in the week to see exactly how many BA flights were running, as there are two
versions going around at the moment :rolleyes:
By: EGTC - 21st March 2010 at 19:45
I went to LHR yesterday and got some photos of the chartered stuff. Unfortunately it was raining most of the time 🙁
By: lukeylad - 21st March 2010 at 19:20
You mean Ryanair or Ryan Air International from the USA? I can’t see BA swallowing its price and accepting Ryanair’s help. It would give Ryanair too much ammunition for a new PR campaign.
Ooops sorry about that! I mean Ryanair! They have indeed as the above poster has stated let BA use Three aircraft for the LGW Shuttle Flights!
By: David Kerr - 21st March 2010 at 18:52
EI-DAN has been operating LGW-MAN
EI-DHP has been operating LGW-GLA
EI-DHR has been operating LGW-EDI
By: tenthije - 21st March 2010 at 18:34
Ryan Air have been doing shuttle runs from LGW too!
You mean Ryanair or Ryan Air International from the USA? I can’t see BA swallowing its price and accepting Ryanair’s help. It would give Ryanair too much ammunition for a new PR campaign.
By: lukeylad - 21st March 2010 at 17:59
Found this on PPRUNE Gives a rough rundown of what was used over the weekend i think there may have been a few changes here and there.
RyanAir have been doing shuttle runs from LGW too!
Some pictures of the Stike Busters on another site!
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=21008&sid=ef0b0b1a1f526b2f4546ecc48bd0f26a
Friday 18th Mar
CS-TFT B763 BA9203P pta 18.20 (from FAO)
G-STRP A320 BA9202P pta 20.05 (from SEN)
G-STRW B757 BA9209P pta 20.10 (from KEF)
CS-TLO B763 BA9213P pta 20.15 (from FAO)
PH-AHX B763 BA9204P pta 20.25 (from AMS)
CS-TLX B757 BA9217P pta 20.30 (from FAO)
SE-RHT B733 BA9207P pta 21.00 (from LGW)
PH-HZB B738 BA9205P pta 21.05 (from AMS)
G-LSAA B757 BA9200P pta 21.05 (from MAN)
G-CELK B733 BA9212P pta 21.05 (from BFS)
G-LSAE B757 BA9201P pta 21.15 (from NCL)
G-CGET B733 BA9214P pta 21.25 (from LBA)
PH-HZM B738 BA9206P pta 22.00 (from AMS)
G-CELV B733 BA9218P pta 22.00 (from MAN)
PH-HZD B738 BA9211P pta 22.05 (from AMS)
G-POWD B763 BA9216P pta 22.05 (from STN)
G-ZAPX B757 BA9208P pta 22.15 (from STN)
Saturday 19th Mar
G-CELY B733 BA9210P pta 05.55 (from NCL)
G-OJIB B757 AEU752P pta 07.00 (from YYC)
G-BPEJ B757 BA9219P pta 13.45 (from ORY)
By: cloud_9 - 21st March 2010 at 17:31
When I left work yesterday, I took a quick drive towards T5 to see if I could see any of the chartered aircraft, and the only one I could see was an Astreaus 757 (the one in the ex-Zoom blue colour!).
And today, a passenger I checked in said that she travelled from Rome to Heathrow on BA yesterday and that the aircraft was operated by EuroAtlantic!
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