Most flown type – 737-300 15flights
Most flown airline – American – 24 flights
Most flown route – LGW-Palma – 9 times
looking forward to – Delta to Appleton WI for EAA Oshkosh in July 🙂
cheapest ever rtn – around £40 for LGW – AMS on Easyjet

Longest Flight – LHR-SIN 13+ on SQ744
Shortest Flight – LAX-Orange County 13mins B1900D
Longest Delay – 24hours Palma-LGW 1978 ATC strike
Biggest A/C – 747-400 of SIN/CX/ANA/Thai
Smallest A/C – B1900D or Sa227 Metroliner
Largest Airport – LHR
Smallest Airport – Samos – greek island
Fav compay – CX
Worst – BA
Fav plane – all good but the A330/340 at the top
Worst plane – Tu134
Best Looking cabin crew – EK or SQ

Newspaper headline ‘ Pope Meets God ‘ 🙂

not really sure how they are calculated but have just done the same route on the same dates but with different airlines and had a difference of £3.58 on taxes etc even though there was a £140 difference in flight prices. A lcc going to the same destination from a major london airport only has £10 as its tax etc. Do some airlines only pass on a proportion of what they actually get charged?

Martin,

you missed the OO- R114 whose nosewheel was buried up to the top of the tyre. Had to stop engine and pilot + pax get out and with some help were able to lift nosewheel from the furrough it had made.

The point I’m making here is sometimes its best to shut the heck up

well said – now if only those who persist in starting A v B threads would do the same 🙂

In the BOAC/BEA days when we actually had aircraft manufacturers producing entire aircraft rather than just the bits, they were strongly encouraged to ‘buy British’. This lead to aircraft being designed such as the VC10 with its good hot/high/short field performance ideal for routes to India / Africa etc. This carried a penalty in terms of economy and made it unattractive to operate in situations when hot/high performance was not critical. This was made worse by the early american jets where runway lengths were increase to accommodate them leaving the VC10 with no real need for hot/high performance and the cost of such performance.

BEA were also guilty of this with the Trident in that it was designed to suit BEA markets rather than a worldwide market.