By: EGNM - 9th March 2002 at 00:14
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Yeah well i’ve been away with the 2 teachers b4 and there’s only 8 students going – they are both sound so i can’t c ne probs!
By: T5 - 8th March 2002 at 22:18
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Yeah, I done that too. I went from down here in Reading to Italy. It was supposed to take 22 hours by coach/eurotunnel and ended up taking 27 hours coz the drivers got lost along the way. makes me wonder how companies like Shearings are still in business! Why on earth do people want to go by coach when they can get there in a tenth of the time by air? And there really is not much difference in price between a Shearings coach holiday and a package holiday.
By: shauny2k1 - 8th March 2002 at 20:48
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
I did a school trip to the south of france, coach and ferry all the way from Hull, one brief stop at London & Paris, terrible.
Shaun
By: T5 - 8th March 2002 at 19:00
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
oh no… not a school trip!! I will never do that again. It was hell. Our teacher checked us all in and we were sat in alphabetical order. There were only 26 boys on the trip aged between 16 and a half and 18 so we are more than capable of checking ourselves in. I didn’t get a window seat either way and was sat next to two people I didn’t even know…!! argh!
By: EGNM - 8th March 2002 at 17:59
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
cool – i know it says the a/c type on AIH tickets, but cos our trip is with skool we won’t see the tickets till we check in!
By: T5 - 8th March 2002 at 17:02
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Thanks for your help everyone – I dont know why I didnt do it in the first place but I have consulted Airtours and they have told me it is an Airbus A330 – fantastic aircraft, cant wait!
By: SOFTLAD - 8th March 2002 at 16:01
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
As far as i know its down as a 752.But things do change from time to time as u know.
Regards.
By: EGNM - 8th March 2002 at 12:46
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Softlad r u a manchy – lad – can u just clairify whether the Weds morning flight to Lanzorote Arrecife (about 7.30am) is 752 or 762 with BY – the general cencus was 752 but i wasn’t sure for certain.
By: SOFTLAD - 8th March 2002 at 11:10
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Depends where u r flying from.If u r going from MAN we r using the DC10-30,A330-200 And A330-300 on that route at the moment.If its from LGW it will be the A330-300.All the B767-300 r down in HAJ doing the pilgrim flights.
Cheers.
By: T5 - 7th March 2002 at 20:21
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Brilliant, thanks for your help everyone. I’ll just hope it is an A330!
By the way, anyone seen the site where someone has scanned in their sick bag collections?! And the really bad thing is that he actually puts a copyright on them with hi name alongside it! I had to email him and tell him that the airlines ‘could’ take legal action but I very much doubt they’d waste their time!
By: EGNM - 7th March 2002 at 20:03
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
i beleive they had 3 -10’s and 1 -30, we flew home on the -10 G-TDTW for crete.
By: V1 - 7th March 2002 at 17:32
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
The DC-10’s used on the US routes were the -30 srs, I was talking about the -10srs not having the range – AIH have (or did have) the -10 srs in their fleet. An easy way to ID a DC-10-10 is due to the fac t that they don’t have the main centre landing gear bogey, which is a feature of the 30 srs.
The AIH A330-200’s have PTV’s on all seats too, which is a bonus.
By: EGNM - 7th March 2002 at 14:43
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Yeah A330 – but i believe the DC-10s have been used on US lights as backup – i beleive they have the range!
By: Benair316P - 6th March 2002 at 23:41
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
Yes, the DC-10s are mainly used on high density short/medium haul routes(Spain/Greece etc…) I’ve seen them at KOS, Palma and Rhodes.
The Transatlantic routes are flown mainly by the A332s which have gradually taken over from the 767s.
Have a good trip
Regards
Benair
By: V1 - 6th March 2002 at 20:12
RE: what aircraft am I flying on?!
You’ll be on one of their A330-200 aircraft. The DC-10’s are really now only used as back-up aircraft, and the DC-10 10srs in their fleet won’t have the range anyway.
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