All but 9 of the 27 GE-powered 777-200 aircraft (G-RAES, G-VII* & G-ZZZ*) will be refitted with the new Thales IFE and new World Traveller and World Traveller Plus seating that can also be found on BA’s 777-300ER fleet. The 9 aircraft that will not be re-fitted are the ones that already have Rockwell Collins AVOD installed. This system can be found on the rest of BA’s RR-powered 777-200ER fleet and there are currently no plans to refit these aircraft with new Recaro seats or Thales IFE.

The pre-refit GE-powered aircraft IFE, also know as the GMIS system, is the old on-loop film and tv selection. The programs will rewind and start again once the longest film finishes. There is now less of a chance of getting onboard one of these aircraft with only only 4 remaining by the end of this month.

The 787’s are planned to replace some of the older 767 aircraft used on mid / long haul routes to begin with.

Hope this helps!?

Apparently Jet2 are now in the process of buying/leasing 5 737-800 aircraft from Transavia?

Thomson Airways operates ex Thomsonfly aircraft in a 2-4-2 configuration and ex First Choice Airways aircraft in a 2-3-2 in economy class.
I’m guessing your flight is from LGW? Then you are most lilely to be on an ex Thomsonfly longhaul operated aircraft. These aircraft are based mainly at LGW and MAN with a couple of the ex FCA fleet also based their for certain routes also, as these are based mainly at their regional airports.

If its Thomson Holidays you have called then they are not 100% going to be right in the information they are giving about the aicraft as many people who come on here may know in the past. However if you really want to give Thomson Airways themselves a call if you don’t mind waiting a long time…:rolleyes:

However having seats assigned already as G and H then it almost confirms this to be an ex TOM aircraft, but you could be lucky and be in the last row (9) of premium on an ex FCA plane…

Hope this helps and have great holiday!

Aer Lingus BFS – TFS 3x Weekly

Aer lingus have also announced a 3 times weekly service from BFS from the end of September. This along with the Jet2 weekly flights and the various charter flights will give a large increase on capacity, especially during the winter months.

Also another new route announced within the past couple of weeks from BFS is a 3 times weekly service to Prague with bmibaby .

Some positive expansion from the Northern Ireland airport. Hopefully it with all these flights to tenerife, the route wont become to over capacity leading to one of the airlines dropping out.

Great shots

But sad new about the two Thomsonfly 767-200s… after they returned from lease from Garuda they went onward to the desert i believe. They’ve been great work horses for Thomson since the 1990s. I loved flying on them, powerfull birds, especially G-BYAA and G-BYAB.

Is that that a 762 with winglets i see before me??

Nope its a 763 with winglets you see before you ! 😉 😀

This is the new/current Thomson Airways logo shown at the bottom of the page. Its obviously TUI style Thomson but similar to the First Choice Airways logo in the layout style. However this is known to be a temporary logo and while it may be used as the new logo, a slightly modified version of this may be confirmed as the offical launch logo from next May.

I expect all the aircraft (that are to remain in the fleet) to be painted similar to the new style TUIfly Nordic livery. With the larger ”Thomson” titles on the above and the smaller ”Airways” below it, just like the ”Nordic” titles are shown on this link;

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G-TOYI Named Geordie baby, I wonder why…:D