As a follow up to my last post; yesterday 2 x Thomsonfly a/c went sick so Titan 733, Germania 73G and Air Berlin 738 called in. Interesting that CAA stats show Britannia having the best on-time performance of the IT carriers; doesn’t say much for the rest?
Despatch reliability of 737s at DSA appears poor to say the least; there’s a different a/c type being subchartered almost every other day. They’ve had BY 757s, Astraeus 737/757s, Hola 757 then 737, Titan 757, Eirjet A320..the list goes on..
Shots were taken from aeropark on Castle Donnington side of airfield. TBH I rarely go to EMA since they closed the viewing deck in the terminal. The old viewing area was also much better; apparently the airport owners said this area was allocated for development so the viewing area had to move. Well, after @10 years they’ve done nothing with the original site!!
All of the FCA long haul programme is now operated on the 767-300.
The past 2 weeks G-OOAN has been operating the GLA flights.
Their 767’s have a 62J/196Y seating config – 258 seats in total.
Seat pitch will not be an issue.
Good to see a charter carrier at last operating a long haul flight with a sensible seating configuration.
I flew MAD-LIS-MAD last June with Iberia; they operate a real mixed bag of a/c. I managed to get a trip on a 757 and an MD-88. I spotted the following at Madrid: MD87/MD88/A320/321/B757/A340-300/A340-600/B747-200/B747-300. They have since brought their A319s back from Miami and added B747-400s(op by AAI/ex-SIA). Imagine if they still operated the A300s and DC10s..IB would probably win the prize for most varied fleet.
I would guess that the A330 will certainly operate some AMS-LHR sorties to begin with to enable crew to operate max. no of take-off/landings during initial operations.
Great report; my experience of Ryanair is similar. One of the 737-800s I flew on was also very tatty considering the age of the a/c. I am not a Ryanair fan; I only fly with them when there is no alternative carrier or the price justifies it. IMO they have gone too far with the cost-cutting; main issue is the non-reserved seating which just creates chaos everytime I fly with them.
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