Sun Country Airlines to Stansted (Merged)

Thankyou, that is N809SY in case there was any confusion. 😉

Sun Country have used the same aircraft to date, picture attached
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Yes, I’ve seen photos somewhere. I don’t recall if it was on here or elsewhere.

Did these flights start with the B.737?

The Stansted Airport – only 45 minutes away from the heart of London – is Britain’s third-busiest airport

😮

Tom Petters, the original owner of Sun Country Airlines was jailed for fifty years for operating a Ponzi scheme. Justice served.;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petters

Mmmm great days
Sterling actually did Colombo in Sri Lanka with the 10Bs as well ……one caught fire there due to brake overheat I recall
More recently Transwede did ARN-ORD with MD80s

And we shouldn’t forget Flyglobespan used 738s to Hamilton,Ontario

Sterling used to go CPH-JFK with Caravelle 10Bs with a tech stop. I bet there was more legroom on those than the Sun 738s!

Just been looking at a map…wouldn’t it have been better to have a techincal stop in somewhere like St John’s rather than Gander?:confused:

Already posted: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98774 🙂

Still should be interesting. I wonder if it’ll just be O&D traffic, or if people will connect through Stansted.

Never saw that coming! How random.

Just had a quick look at flights etc on the site – they are quite pricey too!

Sun Country to fly 738’s to London with a stop in Gander

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sun-Country-Announces-New-bw-2176581910.html?x=0&.v=1

As I udnerstand it, they’re looking for other opportunities too for Europe, though I expect it will be more of the same, low frequency, leisure orientated stuff.

Actually, they’re doing it (once a week only, for a limited time in the peak summer travel period) to gain Oceanic / ETOPS experience which will allow them to bid for / operate flights for the US military – as the services require a level of experience before a carrier may do such work.

So they may well be looking for other opportunties (even in Europe), but I’m not sure I’d describe them as “leisure orientated” 🙂

Andy

As I udnerstand it, they’re looking for other opportunities too for Europe, though I expect it will be more of the same, low frequency, leisure orientated stuff.

That’s going to be a long journey in a 737..

This is probably anyone’s initial view, but after you think about it, the B737-800 is virtually the same size as the B707 which spent 3 decades crossing the Pond. The only differences will be it’s slower than the B707 and has two engines, but by comparison, the B737 is quieter and probably provides a better passenger experience than the 707s. We’re increasingly accepting of single-aisle layouts across the Atlantic on B757’s, so again it’s going to feel much the same as that really.

It stops in Gandor, wonder if they do a crew change. The 737 cockpit is cramped for carrying an extra two.

Edit: they must, it a 16hr+ flight.

I’d rather do that journey in a B777 up.

That’s going to be a long journey in a 737, hope they don’t charge to use the lav 😀