lovely! saw the arrival on teletext this morning!

I live in SE London / NW Kent and to be honest I think that the potential catchment area could be their biggest problem. The problem with MSE is that it has no decent rail connection to London (trains take over 2 hours) and much of the A2 is currently being resurfaced. Many London-based airport passengers don’t use their cars to get to the airport, either because they are accustomed to half-decent public transport between their home and the airport or simply because a fairly high proportion of Londoners don’t own cars.

MSE is also fairly far from London – from where I live it is 63 miles away. In comparison, LCY is about 7 miles, LGW is 34, STN is 45, and LHR (over the other side of London) is 29. I would consider using EU Jet if they’re cheap and if they offer well-timed services, or purely for the experience. I’m honestly not sure whether Kent and E Sussex alone could support such an ambitious airline if EU Jet fails to attract London passengers.

If it’s partially easyJet, does that mean the seats partially recline and the window blinds partially come down? 🙂

Some of their TriStars appear to be ex-Air Canada machines

I flew BA567 (Sunday evening flight) MXP-LHR on a 767. Outward flight BA574 was on an A319.

I could be wrong but I seem to remember flying LHR to MAD with BA on a 767 once years ago.

BA use 767s on many European routes from LHR, certainly they did have used them on LHR-MAD and may still do. Anyone able to confirm? I flew MXP-LHR on a BA 767 only 5 weeks ago.

I remember a few years ago taking an Airtours 757 in place of the scheduled A320 (not very exciting), however, in 1994 we were due to fly on an AMM 320 from MAN-PMI. For some reason, all of AMM’s aircraft were not able to operate and their flights were subchartered to other carriers. There were 3 flights from MAN that morning – 2 to PMI and 1 to ALC. Our flight was replaced by an LEI 734 (zzzz…) however the other PMI flight and the ALC flight were combined and operated on a Corsair 747 which routed MAN-PMI-ALC-MAN. How I wished we were on the other PMI flight!!!