Transatlantic Tails

What about Kuwait Airways, PIA, Uzbekistan and Air India who all use airports to connect to the US?

Everytime I seem to fly out of T4 at LHR a plane seems to be crossing. Everyone else is always grumbling, but I always sit happily watching them cross the road at their plodding pace! 🙂

Nope, not once!

But I guess it’s because I don’t get up there too frequently, but I really would love to be there when its happening.

Yeah planes crossing the road happens 4 or 5 times at least each day. When concorde is not needed out on the airport apron, they take it across the road and park it up outside the BA maintainence hanger, until later on in the day when the bring in back into the airport and over the T4.

They do this with 747’s and 777’s to from BA frequently.

T5 have you never see this done before then?

i suspect it will be more overnight into the ba/bmi maintainance area as this will be when most of the minor engineering wil be done

I never knew such a thing happened at the airport, quite amazing!

Originally posted by T5
Wow, spectacular sight there!

Does this happen frequently at Heathrow?

yes i think it does.

Wow, spectacular sight there!

Does this happen frequently at Heathrow?

trying to think of a caption:

And I thought those things could do 0-60 mph in 3 seconds

Stop at the red light

I wouldn’t be too annoyed to be in this traffic jam:

Amsterdam is great for the numbers of Northwest aircraft. They usually park next to the obseration area (huge!!) which is near the food court, so you can get a hot dog and ice cream and sit on a bench watching the jets and smelling the kerosene 🙂

You lucky people are in airliner paradise

When I went to New York, I felt it was the same situation there. Terminal 7 was the British Airways terminal where I arrived with United and the British aircraft far outnumbered the US airlines.

LHR can be like that. I’ve seen a line up of four SAA 747’s before now, as well as three Qantas 747’s and you often see two aircraft from the same airline.

In fact once, a few years ago, I say 2 Qantas 744’s and about 5 or 6 Qantas 763’s all next to each other! I think the 767’s were on ferry flights, but it looked good all the same.

look more like US hubs than English airports!

The split

LHR serves 1st tier destinations in the US; LGW serves 2nd tier destinations. LGW usually serves the Caribbean also.

Direct from LGW:

Raleigh-Durham (AA B772)
Philadelphia (US A333)
Pittsburgh (US B763)
Orlando (VS B744, BA B772)
Houston (CO B772, BA B772)
Atlanta (DL B763, B772, BA B772)
Charlotte (US, A333)
St. Louis (AA B763)
Dallas (AA B772)
Newark (CO B772)
Minneapolis (NW DC-10)
Miami (VS B744)
Las Vegas (VS B744)

Direct from LHR:

New York JFK
Newark
Washington
Boston
Detroit
Chicago
Miami
Atlanta
Baltimore
Dallas
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Denver
San Diego
Toronto
Vancouver
Montreal
Calgary

Plus some more I can’t think of at the moment.

WAIT!…. I spot a Brit Jet…. in the 3rd pic right at the back, BY 757! :p

Great pics. Seem the US is begining to dominate our main airports!

LGW is great for transatlantic connections – many more airlines and more destinations too, rather than just the usual suspects from LHR. Even the home growns BA and VS serve some desitnations exclusively from LGW (the Caribbean ones mainly).

Tri-jets galore at London Gatwick!

Never knew that Gatwick was home to more US airlines than our main airport, Heathrow. Makes me wonder if it really is our main airport.

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