Thank god someone has seen the light there! Not everyone wants no frills do they!

Toffee Crisps all round then I think? :p

Its caused by the massive airflow over the lettering.

The stickers obviously have not been edge sealed properly, allowing air to get underneath and at 400mph those stickers can’t withstand that force and rip away.

Just can’t understand why they allow this to happen, it must cost them time out to get it redone properly.

Lets face it, the poor 600 looks worse than the Ryanair/Hertz logo jet now doesn’t it! :rolleyes:

It’s either still in basic SAS colours or Fred had another grey day at GLA ? :rolleyes:

Definately still got the SAS engines and off white fuselage. Check this to compare SAS 737-600

How on earth have they managed to rip off so much of the lettering on it already though??? Thought it wasn’t quite in service yet?

Just a question on the origonal quote:

Will this affect tickets already booked through United. I am due to fly on the 29th May from MAN-IAD booked via United – If the FAA havn’t completed their paperwork by then will there be any changes enforced to my travel plans? 🙁

btw as of today (18th April) the BMI customer service departments are unawair (or so they say) of any change to the aircraft used – “But we wouldn’t fly a smaller Aircraft on an Atlantic Route” was the response I received in a phone call today.

Funny how the rest of the world with an internet connection knows differently (And correctly, according to an insider I spoke to within BMI)

If your booking is with UA, then there is no reason why you shouldn’t still be travelling, whatever aircraft it may be.

If there is any problem which means you can’t travel, it is UA’s responsibility to reaccomodate you, most likely via LHR.

bmi’s reservation centre would probably have no idea about what aircraft is being used because they aren’t bmi staff anymore, its an indian call centre now. I doubt any of them have ever seen the inside of a bmi aircraft (until the Mumbai starts maybe). They doing the best they can, but they really don’t have the knowledge or experience to comment.

Interesting to see Jethro’s site is quoting another A330 due from Emirates in time for May. Also the route is still showing as an A330 in GDS so maybe its not all signed and sealed yet.

GLA-HKT on a clapt-out old Tristar!!! OMG!!!

These aircraft have been retired for a reason, and they should stay there! What is it with Greek operators and Tristars?

I know they look great and all that, but they’re hardly state of the art inside (passengers will not be impressed), and they’re a nightmare to work on. I still have nightmares about the Classic Airways Tristar I should have still been working on.

Really don’t fancy being the Air Scotland PR department when they have massive delays with these old things.

😮

Really can’t see them filling an RJ just twice a week to CDG.

Its a very limiting schedule, even if it does provide the only direct service from the island. Still, time will tell!

Do Britannia have enough 767ER’s for all this new long-haul?

Interesting to see them doing a U-Turn on their idea to sub out lots of their long haul to other carriers over recent years.

Be informed that eastern airways are to codeshare with bmi regional and operate flights to London city with a saab 2000 aircraft. Instead of that ATR42 manchester advertisement.

The flights will operate 2 to 3 times daily with onward flights upto Inveness where the aircraft would be based

operating as follows
INV – LBA – LCY – LBA – INV

Eastern and bmi have tried codesharing before and ended up falling out big time after only a few weeks! Remember when Eastern started the MAN-INV and MAN-DND runs, they were bmi codeshare for a few weeks.

I’m very surprised about this, they aren’t known for being the best of buddies, what with bmi starting the EMA-ABZ just to spite Eastern etc.