RE: Airtours Review

Glad you enjoyed the trip, everyone I speak to say the A330 is an excellent aircraft to fly on. I’ll be flying Virgin soon, but now the charters have the 330’s it would probably be better on them instead of the old 747 classics:-(, unless you end up getting a 763 of course.

Unforunately, a part in the right engine needed to be replaced and what should have taken a matter of minutes ended up taking almost an hour and 09:10hrs seem to come and go.

Sounds very familiar with Airtours!

I flew on A Boeing 763 for which the registration was G-DIMB. I’ve search the Internet to see if the aircraft was leased from/to another airline as it did not have the Airtours tail. It looked like the Garuda Indonesia logo, but I can’t be sure. If anyone can help me figure out what is happening, please let me know.

A lot of aircraft are leased out to Garuda during the winter for that Hadj religious thing. I was at Gatwick the other year and saw a number of Britannia 767’s with the Garuda tail and titles. Not the perfect photo but you can see the titles!
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RE: Near miss over Spain

Know what you mean about the spot at Lanzarote. I stood behind a Tristar during take-off and force was amazing, nearly pushed us into the sea..

Bad news about the incident over Spain, TCAS did its job again though by the sounds of it.

RE: New MONARCH livery in the flesh!

Not too bad at all, definately better than the old one though.

Apparently Air 2000 are now having new colours as well, that does just about all of the charters in the same year.

Also looking forward to the new Air Malta one which is due soon.

RE: Air band Frequencies

I have a few for some UK and foreign airports on my web site:

http://www.plane-mad.com

Go to the airport guides section.

I can pretty much find out any others for you if you let me know which you want.

RE: Airport pic of the day- 27/03/02

I agree with Kabir, looks like the old Elmdon building at Birminham.

RE: South African Airways

They’ve gone for Airbus. They are getting the A340-600 and the new -300 with slightly more efficient engines. They are also using Airbus for their shorthaul fleet, the 737-800’s will be replaced starting in about 2010.

RE: Pah, who needs Low Cost carriers anyway?!?!?

Good news indeed that prices are coming down, all because of the low cost carriers. bmi used to charge £200-£300 to fly from EMA to Scotland but with Go and bmibaby I can’t see this continuing.

Lets hope they are both a success at EMA!

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RE: Airport pc of the day-24/03/02

Looks like Chicago O’Hare.

Is that SABENA a 747? Looks like it from this view.