XL Airways, wasn’t it?

That’s what I had thought, so I was puzzled as to why the expression ‘give way’ would be an issue for a UK based pilot. Now that I think about it though, the Lufthansa incident involved a Futura aircraft so it makes more sense. The XL aircraft was involved with the bmi Baby collision.

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Did the BA ones ever get the BOAC livery

I don’t believe so. As far as I know they were originally in the Concorde ‘house’ colours during test flying, then went into the BA ‘red tail’ livery before the inaugural commercial service.

Couldn’t swear to that though.

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When Braniff “Owned” Concorde on the internal US flights, for a year, how much decal changing was there? I believe they had a large decal for the American registration #, but what else?

Between Early 1979 and spring 1980 Braniff used aircraft owned by BA and AF for their short-lived Concorde flights from IAD to DFW, with Braniff crews taking over the aircraft from the crew who brought them in from LHR and CDG.

The Braniff crews operated the aircraft on the US register and to US procedures which meant that the aircraft reg’s and ship library were changed each time the crew changed at IAD. The registration was changed by replacing the first part of the G- or F- registration with N94, eg: G-BOAA became N94AA and F-BVFC became N94FC. A sticker could be used for this as the aircraft flew subsonically over the US.

The Braniff livery often seen on models and publicity material was never actually applied to an aircraft.

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This could be a real money spinner for AA based on my experience of US customers. “Can I get a blanket” is very often the first thing they say as they board the aircraft, even on a 30 minute hop!

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That livery is vomit inducing, sorry 🙂

I agree on the shade of green (although G-JEDP is worse with the blue clashing beautifully with the green!) but I do think it’s a very clever livery and very Kulula.

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i know of no such policy on any other airline

Probably true of a policy as in this report Steve. I have worked for three other UK airlines over the years and two of them had policies similar to the actual BA one. The other airline was so long ago that these issues probably weren’t given much thought at the time.

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their number of flights delayed by more than an hour is better than yours at 2.6% vs. 3.9%.

I seem to recall reading that once a flight reaches a certain delay ex-base Ryanair’s policy is to cancel so as to protect it’s punctuality statistics. I would think inbound flights are a different matter as the aircraft needs to be brought back to base regardless.

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