BA MAN to JFK. The end

Lets be honest, the hub system is more profitable for the airline and allows them to serve many more cities.

Guess which clown of an airline when given a terminal partially funded by themselves wanted to ramp up operations so that they could have a small hub operation here but instead flew the white flag of surrender after 3 years.

Lets be honest, the hub system is more profitable for the airline and allows them to serve many more cities.

Well you know AF has the same silly hub strategy.
They used once to fly LYS-JFK , Nice-JFK.

Now one has to connect at this awful CDG hub.:mad:

I remember the ex B-Cal DC-10 doing flights to the Caibbean in BA colours, the twice weekly 747 flight BA118 to Islamabad and a 747 cargo flight (can’t remember the destination). And was it the DC-10 that did NY before the 767 or was it a TriStar?

I flew BA MAN-JFK once, that was a Tristar.

How long did BA use 767’s on JFK route.

I think it was around 17 years or so – they used to rotate the 767s on a LHR shuttle every month or so. THen 1993, we had the dedicated BA Regional fleet of 3 767s and a 757 (G-BNWN, G-BWNO and G-BNWU for the 767s, G-BPEC (I think?) for the 757). Our favourite tech aircraft of all time (G-BNWH) may have taken over the duties from around 1995 up to 2006.

How long did BA use 767’s on JFK route.

I’m sure there was a regular 747 cargo that lasted a season or 2 that routed either via Gatwick or Prestwick. Then again I might be imagining it.

I remember the ex B-Cal DC-10 doing flights to the Caibbean in BA colours, the twice weekly 747 flight BA118 to Islamabad and a 747 cargo flight (can’t remember the destination). And was it the DC-10 that did NY before the 767 or was it a TriStar?

The Barbados and Orlando services were both 2 weekly 747s routing up from Gatwick. Never had 747Fs operating on a regular basis (think it was no more than 5 “charters” to Atlanta).

It was L1011s to JFK which then became DC10s (routing from LGW) then 747s (routing from LGW) before becoming the proper offering ex-MAN two-class 767s (J30 Y 183) which seemed to have served them so well before the embarrassment of having profitale regional long-haul ops saw them go to the 3 class 767 and become “uneconomic”. On another forum it’s reported that premium passenger numbers were not in decline but very steasy and “lots of people routing MAN-LHR-JFK”, then with the closure of the MAN base i.e. sold to Flybe, crewing costs increased quite a bit. They willed it to make a loss, and verily it came to pass.

I remember the ex B-Cal DC-10 doing flights to the Caibbean in BA colours, the twice weekly 747 flight BA118 to Islamabad and a 747 cargo flight (can’t remember the destination). And was it the DC-10 that did NY before the 767 or was it a TriStar?

Sad news indeed – It sure was nice to see it on spotting/photography trips.

Why don’t they just rename them London Airways.

I wonder how many of your 880 posts aren’t rants or flight info req’s.

Why don’t they just rename them London Airways.

Sad for all really, as a kid I remember the VC-10’s plying this route from RINGWAY.