Britannia to fly 737-800s from Teesside?

Yeah but Teeside has a long runway, no probs there.

The 737-800 wouldnt work well for BY from many regional airports as its such a runway muncher when compared to the 737-200 they operated years ago, which had excellant field performance and was able to get into all the regional airports with no penalties! Me thinks, it would have a noise penalty nowadays, even if not payload penalties! They were very, very noisy. I recall landings on BY 737-2s at Funchal and Gibraltar.

Yes they have, but I dont think they were particular happy with them due to performance issues from the likes of LBA. They swapped BYNB/C with CDUO/P.

Interesting news – I saw two Swedish registered 738s earlier in the week at ZTH, nice to see one still in the old colours.

Hope they do make a comeback in the UK.

Thomson/Britannia have based 3 of the B737-800s in the UK before. IIRC one a/c operated from LBA. Fleet were reg. G-BYNA/B/C

A swap seems feasible, as does AB operating on behalf of Britannia UK. I also think its ‘possible’ that Thomson could sub-charter to a completely different airline, like MYT does with Spanair at Teesside.

As for Thomsonfly; I can’t see them getting 800s just yet; I’d expect more 500s or maybe some 300s but you never know. 🙂

Might be a swap, I have a faint memory of someone telling me that Britannia Sweden was going to insert a 757 permanently into the fleet later this year. Don’t quote me on that though!

its interesting, but what also occurs next year is that Thomsonfly.com have to aquire 5 aircraft to fly from Doncaster, to go along side with the 5 at conventry, no idea where they are coming from but would they get the same type at the same time.

Interesting, they are all currently with Britannia Airways Sweden and on the Swedish register at the moment…