Pablo, the Britannia aircraft that is named after Eric Morecambe, is a Boeing 757-200 which I had mentioned before hand, there is also a BY 757 named after John Lennon, which is G-BYAP I believe.

I think a BY is also named after Lord Nelson (not sure the type or reg though)

In contrast to that, the thing that annoys me the most, is when the person in front of you reclines their seat when your on a 2 hour charter flight with only 28″ pitch as it is. Seems very ignorant to me.

Or 8 hours on a transatlantic flight with a 29″ pitch, and you’re sat in such a position that you can’t see the TV without causing serious injury to your neck.

It arrived this morning on two flights from Montreal. Both flight codes were ABD but there is no info about the airline.
The numbers were ABD 001 and ABD 002, both aircraft were an extremely, but then an extremely super extremely rare 747-200 pax version visiting Brussels! Both 747’s arrived with half hour between them.

ABD is Air Atlanta Icelandic. One of their 742s has been painted in a special livery to transport the Olympic torch.

Here is a picture.

Spanair have this one, SUNPLACE

Some of Spanair’s MD83s have a Sun- connection to their name (Sunflower, Sunbird). Some of Britannia’s 762 were named (one was also called Eric Morecombe) but not all of them.

you can always rely on google to throw up interesting results

Is this a sign of poor training of Ryanair cabin staff?

I inadvertently forgot to buckle up on my last flight (on landing) and the cabin crew didn’t notice. It was only as we were arriving on the gate at LHR that I noticed. This was with BA.

Smiths wins new £873m Boeing deal

UK defence group Smiths has won a new multi-million pound deal to supply technology for Boeing’s Dreamliner jet.
The London-based group said its aerospace division had won a deal worth more than £873m ($1.6bn) to supply landing gear systems for the aircraft.

The contract comes on top of an agreement in February to supply the 7E7 jet’s “backbone” or Common Core System.

Total revenues on the deals are expected to near £1.64bn ($3bn) during the aircraft’s lifetime, Smiths added.

“This news reflects Smiths’ long-term commitment to investment in research and development and reconfirms our tier-one supplier status with Boeing,” Smiths Chief executive Keith Butler Wheelhouse said.

The news helped propel Smiths shares to seven month highs of 725.5p during the day. They later closed 14p up at 714p.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3813677.stm