All white 757 is G-STRY operated by Astraeus. It’s been operating for BA on LGW-MAN/EDI/GVA/VAR/NCE flights since mid December upto March

XL are finishing the contract as their 747-300s which have been operating the flight are leaving the fleet.

AEU do operate 2 737-700s both of which are now fitted with winglets (1 at MAN and 1 at LGW), and 2 737-300s both of which are based in GOT flying for our partner airline Sterling.

I’ve just come back from Hong Kong (you’ll have a fantastic time btw), flying ANZ. Despite the lack of on line check in, check in at LHR was a breeze. The flight was pretty empty, so managed to bag four seats together. The over night flight (11 hours 25 mins) left on time. Plenty of legroom, although the armrests don’t fold all the way up, making sleeping across a row of seats a little uncomfortable. The food was good (dinner and a full breakfast served) with a choice of meals. The entertainment was 1st class, with oodles of films, TV progs, games and music, and didn’t crash once! The crew were hit and miss with some superb, very chatty and couldn’t do enough to help, and some fairly average, but no one was awful. Arrival on time at the wonderful HKG. Return flight (8:15 am) was made slightly less painful by checking in at the Airport Express station in Kowloon, and flying straight through to security off the train. Flight again on time and pretty empty. Food again good (breakfast, mid flight hot sandwich and ice cream, and dinner before landing). Again the crew were a bit hit and miss. Water handed out a couple times each hour, and chinese tea served with each meal service (nice touch). All together, much better than my flights with Virgin and BA. And thank goodness the cabin crew were strict on keeping the blinds closed between the two meal services – made sleeping so much easier.

Hello all, This is my first post ?
I am travelling AGP TO EXT on FLYBE, does anyone know if BAE 146 200 or 300 series is used on this trip or might this be operated by B737 ?
MAGP

The 737-300s were leased by Flybe from Astraeus, and all have left the AEU (and Flybe) fleet as the contract has now come to an end. All three are at Southend, G-STRA is coming to the end of its lease and is off to Adam Air in Indonesia, G-STRI and G-STRJ (in Astraeus colours) are off on a dry lease contract (no crew) to FlyMe in Sweden, and G-STRE has come to the end of its lease period, but I have no idea where it’s going.

Can guarantee that LGW will be home to the 757 fleet. The LBA 73G will move down to Gatwick when the Leeds base closes at the end of October and be converted into the 2 class layout as on the 757s. The 733’s are moving over to the new owners Flyme for their low cost operations out of Gothenburg. From what I understand, the plan at the moment (and this seems to change on a weekly basis!) is 4 757s and 1 73G at Gatwick expanding the successful and profitable scheduled and niche charter network, and a 73G at MAN operating only the higher margin charter work. It’s not certain whether AEU will return to LBA next summer, or will focus on the more profitable work at LGW, and the large network of African scheduled services operated there

All flybe 737s stop flying in October as the contract with Astraeus to operate the aircraft is due to end. Currently there is one aircraft based at NWI, BHX, and EXT