Originally posted by KabirT
next in line should be the 747.

Nah, next in line for the chop at Boeing should be that ugly little ******* based on 60’s technology, the *3*… I mean, at least the 75 was gracefull *sigh*

yup, and there’s an AMS flight, too, although I can’t remember if both KLM and easyjet operate the route, or if it’s just one of them.

Incidentally, that Albino BY 75 seems to have a problem with it…

From The Herald
CELTIC players and officials were stranded in Lithuania early today after an insect in the instruments dramatically forced the pilot of their plane to abandon take-off at the last minute.

The official party, accompanied by a number of journalists, were heading home after their comfortable 4-0 Champions League qualifying round victory over Kaunas last night when the incident happened.

The Boeing 757 came to a sudden halt as it sped down the runway because the pilot realised the airspeed indicator had broken down.

One journalist aboard said: “There was mild panic. Things like spectacle cases and magazines started flying about the inside of the plane.”

The pilot was forced to take the plane back to the standing position. He informed the passengers that he had aborted take-off because of a problem with the airspeed readings – caused by an insect in the system. “It looks like some kind of bug has flown in. Unfortunately, by the time the engineers fish it out, it (the gauge) has to be tested and obviously there’s no testing kit.”

Ronnie Hawthorn, Celtic operations manager, said: “The air speed indicator wasn’t working and so he didn’t know what speed he was doing on the runway and aborted take-off.

“It’s unusual, but we have to do this because of safety.”

At 2.25am local time, passengers were told the plane could not leave until a testing kit for the gauge was flown out from the UK. The kit was sent out overnight, but it was not expected that the flight would be able to leave until midday today at the earliest.

Passengers were taken by coaches back to accommodation in Kaunas. Flight captain Tim O’Dell said: “We have made a decision to stay here tonight. The engineer has seen the problem, but it’s the testing that’s the problem. We will have to fly the system to Lithuania from the UK.”

The incident conjured up memories of Rangers’ trip to Paris for **** Advocaat’s last game in charge of the club in December 2001. They were jetting in to face Paris St Germain in the UEFA Cup when the plane aborted landing as another aircraft sat on the runway.

Celtic were looking to return for a friendly with Arsenal at Parkhead on Saturday, but that could be affected by the delay.

Apart from last night’s events, the club could face an on-the-pitch problem through a hamstring injury suffered by Henrik Larsson 14 minutes from the end of their rout of FBK Kaunas. Martin O’Neill, the manager, will discover the extent of the injury this morning.

Isn’t that just typical of Journos to get all panicky? 😉

Incidentally, the aborted landing in Paris alluded to was a bmi A321 at CDG. Must be something about that size of plane…

The Smithsonian’s already got an ex-AF concorde, so surely it’d be better to give it to someone else?

How about somewhere north of Watford Gap? (and don’t say MAN…)

Originally posted by Selsport69
Hand87_5, What route does Air France use them on? as most of the long hauls I see with Airfrance is either A340 or 747. Also do you know if the seating pitch is any better on their 777 than their A340?

right, got the AF timetable in front of me now, and according to it, they operate 777’s on the following routes:

CDG-JFK (also operate 747’s on some flights on this route)
CDG-IAD
CDG-LAX (again, also operate some 747’s here)
CDG-SFO
CDG-PVG
CDG-SIN-CGK
CDG-ICN
CDG-KIX
CDG-ATL
CDG-BOS (also operate A340’s on this route)
CDG-EZE-SCL
CDG-MEX (also operate some 767’s on this route)
CDG-CAI
CDG-DXB
CDG-BEY (also codeshare with MEA on this route, who use 32S’s & A330’s)
CDG-LAD
CDG-JNB

regarding seating, I dunno, I haven’t been on the 777, but according to the seat map, 3-3-3 in economy, 2-2-2 in First
and 2-3-2 in business.

I, like you, wasn’t convinced with the 340’s 2-4-2 in economy (it’s 2-2-2 in both cabins up the front)

Of course, these routes are not guaranteed to be operateb by 777, but it’s probably a fair representation of when to expect a 777. so, Hand, you may be in for at least 1.

How about SFO with Oakland just across the Bay? Again, not strictly the same city, but certainly serviceable by both communities.

Ren, personally, I think we should just bomb the whole of East Renfrewshire, and thereby regain Braehead for the City. 😛

Oh, and while we’re bombing places, can we get rid of Embra? 😉

Nah, seriously, does anyone really care where an airport is… as long as it’s accessible. I don’t have a problem with PIK, except there are to many Ayrshire Neds about… (although I won’t suggest bombing them as Killie Pies are too good to do away with… ;))

Met Liam Gallagher in a pub in Basel once, and (is there anyone on here who hasn’t done security at gigs?) once almost refused Lenny Kravitz entry to his own gig cause he didn’t have his backstage pass with him (It could have been anyone… I mean, imagine walking about with a towel over your head so as not to be photographed).

Apart from that… bumped into Gavin Hastings outside Murrayfield a couple of years ago, but I think that’s about it…