Get rid of hand luggage, it will speed everything up!

I used to work in ground handling for a number of years. Football fans on a day-trip were a gift, and could easily get 180 of them onboard and seated in 6 minutes, as all they were carrying was the odd newspaper and coat.

Another one that surprised me was managing to board 150 fairly quickly during extreme winds of 45kts, we boarded the passengers via one set of steps only -half a dozen at a time. The whole thing seemed to work quicker than the usual pointing 150 pax to two sets of steps and saying knock yourself out, just get on!!

Boarding by seat row can work well but you still get the pompous tools who feel they are more important than others and stand blocking the aisle and slow it down.

Nice pics, any idea where the MD83 departed to?

My last memory of an encouter with F-GMLK was the captain asking me for a cloth to wipe some bird brains off his windscreen, bit of a mess:dev2:

Quick look of the report shows that the operating crew arrived in MEL @ 0613 local on the morning of 19th, 13hours after leaving DXB. They then departed again at 2230 local on 20th. That’s fact, going by the report.

So say around 36 hours of rest, plenty if you work regular shifts in one time zone. But for globetrotting around the world, going east one trip and west the next…? I can imagine even the most well adjusted jetlagged folk’s body clock would be in turmoil.

Must be this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8148527.stm

To be delivered on the evening of 29th May I believe.

Like the out of window shot…where was that???

Looks very much like Co.Down in Northern Ireland, after taking off from 04 at City. Unfortunately it doesn’t always look quite so exotic and hot as the picture.

Cool shots

Congratulations on 10,000 posts Steve 🙂

I had a look at the weights of the 757 fleet recently in work, can’t quite remember them now but AB was one of the lighter ones together with AI and possibly AD, don’t quote me.

cloud_9,
Same aircraft but when weighting to the nearest kilogram, every aircraft will be different, especially since the 757s come from different backgrounds with different equipment onboard, gone through different repairs and modifications.

Say you and a friend buy the same model of car with different options/extras, there is going to be a small difference in weight. Then as you, or he, goes OTT with pimping it out:D it will only lead to a bigger difference. If he has different galleys, seating config, speed stripes, lightweight titanium gear knob etc etc.