RE: Travellers face yet more misey

Yeah, but I’m not so much talking about the travellers to the Balearic, I’m talking about holiday makers going to Cyprus, or Jamaica, who didn’t have previously have an idea of the Ballearic, and will now see it as a place to avoid.

RE: Business jets in commercial traffic

There was some talk after Concorde was grounded that some company would wet-lease a bizjet- The Gulfstream Challenger?- to shuttle ‘R’ class pax from London/Paris to Washington/New York quickly.

Sir Richard Branson has always wanted a concorde, he may be looking at this instead, now.

RE: Saab 340 & 2000

Indeed, when LX first introduced the 2000, it was anounced as the world’s fastest turboprop, and promtly dubbed ‘concordino’. LX is currently, however selling their 340’s (they now only have 2 left), replacing them with larger a/c.
I travelled on an LX 340 from BRU to BSL six months ago, and my only problem with it is it’s very cramped inside, but then, all planes are, nowadays. On the return flight to BRU, I flew on the 2000 for the first time. Inside, they’re pretty much the same, except for the noise level.
Nice couple of aircraft.

RE: Charles De Gaulle

Terminals at CDG are a euphanism.
AF have all of Terminal 2, that’s Hall A, Hall B, Hall C, Hall D and Hall F.

the TGV station is situated between terminals D/C and F, under the Sheraton Hotel. The RER station is at the same place (From Terminal 1, you have to take a bus). The Metro dosen’t go as far as Roissy from the City Centre, but with an RER ticket you can change as many times as you want in town.

Halls A-D are small (5 piers each), and pretty boring, but F is modern, spacious, and has a lot of big windows to see out of.

And a word of advice – take gate announcements with a pinch of salt, I got conflicting gate details from different screens.

RE: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

I travelled on a BA L-1011 16 years ago, from LHR to CDG. I have to say I enjoyed it, but it was only my secind flight, and it was 15 years later before I flew on a ‘modern’ widebody [A340], so I can’t really compare them…
(I’m not counting the 767 or 747-100 as ‘modern’ widebodies, the L-1011 was still being built when the 767 was first produced.)

RE: Gatwick Airport

There’s list off shops at ALL BAA Airports/Terminals in the UK (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen) at the BAA website… http://www.baa.co.uk

RE: where do u view the planes at glasgow

er, you don’t.