Just a shame that the Reporting Scotland 5 second clip to announce the iminent start of Prestwick-Stornoway services this lunchtime was of a (landor liveried) BA ATP… Jackie never batted an eyelid (but then, she probably didn’t notice the difference…. does anyone have Terry Wogan’s phonenumber at PoV? ;))

or who’s to say they won’t replace the 737’s with ERJ190-x’s instead? 😉

ok, here’s a list of all 20 MD-11’s that were at one stage or another operated by Swissair:

Registr. c/n delivery went to Swiss or not Remarks
HB-IWA 458 Mar 91 Swiss stored ZRH
HB-IWB 459 Mar 91 Swiss Varig PP-VTF
HB-IWC 460 Apr 91 Swiss rebuilt to MD-11F, Martinair PH-MCY
HB-IWD 463 May 91 Swiss Varig PP-VTG
HB-IWE 464 Jun 91 Swiss currently ZRH
HB-IWF 465 Aug 91 crashed Halifax, 3.9.98
HB-IWG 472 Sep 91 stored Mojave
HB-IWH 473 Oct 91 Swiss stored Mojave
HB-IWI 477 Nov 91 Swiss stored ZRH
HB-IWK 487 Feb 92 Swiss Varig, PP-VTJ
HB-IWL 494 Apr 92 Swiss Varig, PP-VTI
HB-IWM 498 Jun 92 Swiss Varig PP-VTM
HB-IMN 571 Jul 94 Swiss Varig PP-VTP
HB-IWO 611 Mar 97 Swiss Varig, PP-VTK
HB-IWP 614 Jul 97 Swiss stored Mojave, since Sep 04 in ZRH as N38WF
HB-IWQ 621 Dec 97 Swiss Varig PP-VTV
HB-IWR 484 Oct 98 ex LTU, now Air Namibia, V5-NMC
HB-IWS 502 Nov 98 ex LTU, stored Mojave
HB-IWT 509 Nov 98 ex LTU, stored Mojave, since Oct 04 in Zürich as N15WF
HB-IWU 533 Oct 98 ex LTU, stored Mojave

(HB-IWE being the one that was in operational use until yesterday)

Sad to see one of the last pax service MD11 in europe to go away.

Does someone know were those are going? FedEx?

If I remember correctly, this one is going to Varig.

(the reason being, LH Cargo want the GE powered MD’s, LX’ ones were PW powered, so LH pulled weight within Star over RG, who took on the ex-LX PW ones to replace their own GE ones which went for Cargo conversion to LH)

exactly who would be flying at under 1400 feet over London unless they were going into/out of LCY, anyway?

It does also say on the Nigerian website that the new airline wouldn’t affect VS’ existing services, or their Nigerian based staff, so I can’t see either of those suggestions being taken up (although I suppose Virgin Nigeria could codeshare on the existing VS’ flights, depending on current payloads…)

That’s the Dash8 I was on in May when I stopped by Hampden for the Cup Final.

I can’t see Virgin Nigeria operating Lagos-LHR when Virgin Atlantic already operate the route…