OneLeft… I’ll have a look through my shots and check the BA flights I caught around those times and get back to you. 🙂

Thanks Paul, much appreciated.

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Even I think it’s odd to be looking at longhaul european routes at the same time as UK regional routes, far-less longhaul ones, are all but disappearing. I guess they have to go where they think they can find yield.

If these are operated on the 757 or 767 I hope no-one in scheduling thinks I’ll be operating them.

Wasn’t the Virgin America thing more about foreign ownership of a US based airline?

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http://www.jet2.com/News.aspx?id=260

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The other side looks even worse. The speedmarque has been applied at a strange angle.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1206632&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20737-81D&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Oevgvfu%20Nvejnlf&QtODMg=Sneb%20%28SNB%20%2F%20YCSE%29&ERDLTkt=Cbeghtny&ktODMp=Znl%206%2C%202007&BP=0&WNEb25u=Cnhyb%20Pneinyub&xsIERvdWdsY=T-BKYN&MgTUQtODMgKE=Svefg%20738%20jvgu%20ON%20pf&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=12969&NEb25uZWxs=2007-05-06%2015%3A53%3A49&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=30619%2F856&static=yes&width=1024&height=695&sok=JURER%20%20%28ert%20%3D%20%27T-BKYN%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=3&prev_id=1206633&next_id=1150497&size=L

I suspect the BA franchise department won’t be too impressed when they see this.

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The BBC are very slow on this one, or they’ve been keeping the story for a ‘no news’ day. This was in the papers 3 to 4 weeks ago.

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This guy sounds flustered, confused, short tempered, didn’t know one aircraft couldn’t follow another because there were another two planes between them…

I absolutely agree Paul, and I certainly don’t mean to give the impression that I am in any way defending the guy. I just don’t imagine for one second I could do any better, so I won’t knock the guy. But I do take your point.

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Probably unfair to comment on whether he’s coping or not, as to the best of my knowledge none of us have proved we can do any better, but it certainly makes you realise how simple the LHR ‘follow the greens’ system is by comparison.

I sat on the flightdeck for landing today and our taxi instructions as we left the runway were “follow the greens, stand 176.”

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It’s a bit vague. Are they describing a train layout?

I think from the BA business seating reference they mean backwards/forwards alternate facing seats, but with ecomony seats I’m not sure how that would work. Whether alternate rows would face opposite directions or alternate seats within a row.

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