The 757 winglet watcher is back, and heres a full frame shot of the Icelandair 757!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/983224/L/
Looks bloody good! :D.
Damn that’s nice. 😀
Beat me to it Bmused
Wx at time not very good with heavy rain shower going through STN.
Confirmed as G-CDRB B737-700
A225HVY
CDRB has only been in service for a few days, it’s based at STN doing the GVA flights that have just started.
Glad it wasn’t more serious!!
Any ideas who is flying Santa trips from LBA using the code FQ.
Aircraft flies in from Brussels to work the flight.
FQ appears to be last used by Air Aruba??
FQ is Thomas Cook Belgium, doing flights from EDI just now too.
ACARS! Must be one heck of a PA31 if its got ACARS fitted 😉
Ok, whatever, just log files. 😉
Ha Ha, check out the edit I made seconds before you posted.
LOL, seems like the only feasible reason. The original slot application was 4J, the arrival/departures screeens show K9, but the ACARs logs show the flights as using the code PYN.
That is indeed what it is.
Also, interestingly, I’m being told that AlphaOne has flown 25 sectors. Why flights have shown up as cancelled was beyond the folks I was talking to. (One being a Duty Operations manager at EDI)
I think they are operating with a different flight code to what the arrivals/departures screens at EDI show and to what the original slot application showed, so the flights end up showing as cancelled. Could be something as simple as that?
Forgot your name, sorry, but the person who actually travelled with Alpha One, can you give us a few more details, as in reg of plane (if not already mentioned) and what the quality of service aboard was, i’m assuming that there wasn’t any – but i’m willing to stand corrected.
PA31 G-UMMI is being used most often just now, although G-JAJK has been used a couple of times too.
I can’t believe I didn’t know that. Actually…Yes I can. So LBA-DUB and back tomorrow for me is definately looking like a 738?
Sometimes I wish ‘progress’ didn’t exist!
Paul
Certainly should be B738s, if you get a B732 be very shocked! lol
Good point about progress, it’s for the best I’m sure. 😉
Am I being really stupid and missing something? (I probably am). Is that THE LAST 732 flight? As in…THE ABSOLUTE FINAL ONE?
Paul
Indeed, it has scheduled to be for a while now. I don’t suppose it is impossible that they are used again between now and the end of the year, but tonights EDI-DUB was supposed to be the very last scheduled flight.
22:35 FR819 DUBLIN AIRBORNE 2238
EDINBURGH RYANAIR FR819 22/12/2005 23:35 DUE AT 2323
Not much time left for the B732 now, all of 2mins or so.

Good old Lothian buses and the 26 that runs every 5mins. The main reason I chose this pic is to show that buses are the main cause of congestion in Edinburgh city centre. :rolleyes: 😉

Good old Lothian buses and the 26 that runs every 5mins. The main reason I chose this pic is to show that buses are the main cause of congestion in Edinburgh city centre. :rolleyes: 😉
Thanks mate! The 757 in my opinion is the best looking commercial jet around. Been lucky enough to have 13 flights on a 757, including one on a -300.
I cant believe when I was younger I used to think ‘oh god not another 757’ when I saw it sat the gate.
In fact, if I had to give a list of my fave looking commercial aircraft (Excluding Concorde), it would be the 757, 777, L1011, Dash 8 Q400 and one many will disagree with, the IL96.
I was exactly the same! Got to the stage where I had 11 flights on B757s (One on a B753 😉 ) and I was actually fed up with them, 4 B757 flights in a week was the final straw. 😉 Now I’d jump at the chance to fly one!
Nice to see Globespan expanding into more ‘adventrous routes’, the likes of ALC, AGP etc are great, but can get a little boring!
They are really making a brilliant go of things, those new 738s, and of course the 763s coming next year! Good on em I say!
Indeed! The destinations waiting to be annouced should be Bergen, Pula, Dubrovnik and a few others! So yeah, they’re not quite the norm.
Ooo, AA can’t beat CO, but Icelandair’s might be able to look even better than CO’s B752Ws, need to see a pic of the whole aircraft first though.
Are there any other airlines about to start fitting winglets to their B752s? I didn’t realise either AA or FI were.