BA order the Baby 'Bus

I belive that there was an order by BA for the A318 , but due to technical problems with the engines for the A318 BA converted the A318 orders to A320 instead, so now we have gone full circle

Look forward to see the mini bus in operation

This is a story with the order:
http://media.www.eraunews.com/media/storage/paper917/news/1999/10/11/CampusNews/British.Airways.Selects.The.A318-1651690.shtml

And here’s a story with the switch over to other Airbuses:
http://www.secinfo.com/dXM1g.2e.htm

I made a boob by not saying the right Airbus model they chose. Also note about the Manchester operations and how they are described. Little did we know that the white flag of surrender was only a few years away!

I belive that there was an order by BA for the A318 , but due to technical problems with the engines for the A318 BA converted the A318 orders to A320 instead, so now we have gone full circle

Look forward to see the mini bus in operation

Kevin

As I recall that’s not quite correct. 318s were possible as options on the orders BA has had for the 320 family, but IIRC I don’t think there have ever been firm orders for 318s thus far.

The 319 was originally destined for LGW, but under ‘Future Size and Shape’ they were, as you rightly say, swapped with the 737s at the regions. This change to more efficient aircraft was the first of many attempts to make the regions, which were by then losing more than LGW, profitable for BA.

The RJ100s didn’t come into the picture until the CityFlyer Express takeover some years later, when they ended up as part of the LGW shorthaul fleet along with the ATRs. In due course, to simplify the fleet at LGW, the ATRs were disposed of and the RJ100s went to the regions to join the 146s which had become part of the fleet there due to the formation of CitiExpress.

The mud just got even less clear.

1L.

With this order, Airbus now has thirteen (13) customers for the A318, the smallest member of the A320 family.

Errr…they are not exactly a new customer for the A318. They had around a dozen on order prior to the “Future Size and Shape” review which resulted in the planned replacement of 737s at MAN and BHX with the A318 being dropped in favour of the RJ100s, the RJ100s moving from LGW, the 737s at MAN and BHX going in the opposite direction, 737s moving from LHR to LGW with that A318 ordered converted into an A319 order with the A319s being based at LHR. That should be as clear as mud:confused:

Northern git slight typo there,dont you mean British London Airways ??:D:D