I need some help, I have noticed an advert in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, which is from Travel City Direct. It says, fantastic florida launching our new jumbo jet non-stop service direct from Newcastle International Airport. Can anyone confirm this?:confused:
By: Jon Taylor - 8th April 2006 at 12:44
Thanks for the info!
By: philgatwick05 - 8th April 2006 at 11:25
thats what i was waiting for, but i dont think they will be in operation for August!
Jon
Yep – you’re right there, as my sister is crew for Excel, and all the documentation, critical paths to departure etc. for this summer are based around the -300 for Travelcity.
By: Jon Taylor - 8th April 2006 at 09:51
thats what i was waiting for, but i dont think they will be in operation for August!
Jon
By: philgatwick05 - 7th April 2006 at 23:29
Air Atlanta
Avion Group has purchased 7 B747-400s (6 passenger and 1 cargo) ; 4 of the passenger aircraft will be converted to freighters by Boeing at which point all 5 cargo aircraft will be operated by Air Atlanta replacing older B747-200 Freighters. The 2 passenger aircraft are to be operated in the Excel Airways Group in the Travel City fleet. The 6 passenger aircraft are coming from All Nippon Airways, the cargo aircraft is coming from Cargolux.
From Justplanes.
By: by738 - 5th April 2006 at 20:25
The 744s arent for use this year for TCD
By: Jon Taylor - 5th April 2006 at 19:34
I’ve seen it on a few forums lately, I imagine it is true ?
ill wait untill its definate then ill get excited
Jon
By: Skymonster - 5th April 2006 at 16:12
One question though does ANA fly the high density 744 sans winglets ?
ANA have both standard international 747-481 and domestic-config’d 747-481D aircraft. The Ds have a strengthened structure to support the increased ratio of cycles to hours that the airframes accumulate, and also don’t usually have winglets. However, the Ds can be used on long-range services and from time to time some of these aircraft have had the winglets added as these improve efficiency on longer sectors (where the added weight is offset by fuel burn improvements). On Japanese domestic services, the 747-481Ds are indeed in a very high density configuration, not that it matters too much as the sector lengths are typically only an hour or so.
I would imagine Avion are taking standard former ANA 747-481s – ANA have recently been replacing 747-400s with 777-300ERs on some long haul routes.
Andy
PS: Japan has always been an interesting place for 747s – the only airlines that ordered 747SRs, the only place where you regularly see 747-400s without winglets (try working out whether what you’re seeing is a late-model 747-300 or a 747-400D!!!), and there are also a couple of 747-100s with stretched upper decks (all the others with SUDs, like KLMs and UTAs were -200s) operating with JAL.
By: Ren Frew - 5th April 2006 at 15:58
Please say that this is true!!
Also the 747-300’s arnt pulling there weight really as they are going tech alot?
Jon
I’ve seen it on a few forums lately, I imagine it is true ?
By: Jon Taylor - 5th April 2006 at 15:54
Apparently they’ll be replacing the older 742’s and 3’s with four 744’s being purchased from ANA this summer ?
Please say that this is true!!
Also the 747-300’s arnt pulling there weight really as they are going tech alot?
Jon
By: Manston Airport - 5th April 2006 at 13:33
Apparently they’ll be replacing the older 742’s and 3’s with four 744’s being purchased from ANA this summer ?
One question though does ANA fly the high density 744 sans winglets ?
They have only just got them 743 from corsair.
James
By: Ren Frew - 5th April 2006 at 13:17
Apparently they’ll be replacing the older 742’s and 3’s with four 744’s being purchased from ANA this summer ?
One question though does ANA fly the high density 744 sans winglets ?
By: GKirk - 21st February 2006 at 17:31
Definately not going broke, busy summer season planned, with plenty of LGW and MAN – SFB trips.
But to clarify, they are not “owned” by Air Atlanta, they are owned by Avion Group, who also own Air Atlanta Icelandic, Air Atlanta Europe, ( which currently operates the Travel City EUK flights) Excel Airways, Star Airlines, Aeroflite, Casino Express, Eimskip, and a large toy store in the UK !
What he said 😀
By: canadair - 21st February 2006 at 17:26
Definately not going broke, busy summer season planned, with plenty of LGW and MAN – SFB trips.
But to clarify, they are not “owned” by Air Atlanta, they are owned by Avion Group, who also own Air Atlanta Icelandic, Air Atlanta Europe, ( which currently operates the Travel City EUK flights) Excel Airways, Star Airlines, Aeroflite, Casino Express, Eimskip, and a large toy store in the UK !
By: LBA-EGNM - 20th February 2006 at 14:55
Ah i though that about air atlanta but i just herd other wise ok cheers
By: bmi-star - 20th February 2006 at 14:13
They are not going bust, as Air Atlanta own them!
By: A330-300 - 20th February 2006 at 13:40
You hate them don’t you? :p
PS, why would they go bust?
By: Ren Frew - 2nd July 2005 at 00:35
Travel City Direct are not an airline. They are a tour company.
A wholly owned sudsidiary of Atlanta now I believe ?
By: Flex 35 - 1st July 2005 at 15:48
Its used on Sunday to SSH (Sharm) as far as I know.
Flex 35
By: LBARULES - 1st July 2005 at 14:10
Does anyone know what Travel City Direct do with their 747-300 at manchester airport, appears to only be used thurs/sat at the moment??
Definitly used more than that, I saw one departing on Sunday for example, and of course, they now have two 747-300s, and as GKirk says, they are also used at other airports.
By: GKirk - 1st July 2005 at 13:49
Travel City Direct are not an airline. They are a tour company who have paid Air Atlanta Europe to paint their (EUKs) 747-300s in Travel City Direct colours. These 747s primarily operate to Orlando Sanford from LGW, MAN, GLA and CWL. Although they do also fly to Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and some other places outside of the peak SFB season.
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