The A330 TC is the sole survivor of the BMI trio ex G-WWBM
i believe the otehr 2 ended up “parted out” at Sandford

I flew from Franfurt in 2004 in a Lufthansa A340-300 i guess it was like been on a HS Trident 1, as it certainly was a gripper and its slow climb out!

the Thomas Cook 757 300 lovely bird but boy is it cramped in side 28 inches pitch i reckon

cant say about ERJs but last summer i did Vegas to LAX in a challenger 200 and that was a great flight

any idea when thomson get theirs in service

we used Virgina excellent service last summer LGW TO Vegas and back to HRW from LA, i struggle to see without holiday makers on a lot of routes how they would make money at all
like how many passengers on the Antugua run are on business or just visiting family? my guess is 80% are holidaymakers

as a child i did a few of those
the courtline 1-11s pink and orange, the laker one too
plus i did a vanguard when the did passenger flights for BEA

I tyried to buy one of those 707 4 series conway jet pods from Alton scrapyard when they broke up the BA 707 from Cosford a few years back
alas the price was balked at by the wife
so my collection never got “off the ground”