…and here’s wysiwyg minor reading his favourite mag.

Ren – I think you got your labelling wrong of who’s who in your picture!

Anyway here’s a more up to date side view. The longer I am in this game the less stripes I get! Oh well I’ll be back to 3 in 18 months and then hopefully 4…

Please tell me you’re not serious Robert!

No commonality at all between the 340 and the 2000 from the flightcrew perspective. Probably a big reason why it wasn’t as successful as it should have been.

Of course, you must be talking about the mighty Comet!

It’s 100% safe…right up until the first one goes down 😉 Seriosly though, if you had a problem you’d just turn for the nearest shoreline.

If Spanish or French ATC were having one of their regular strikes we would head out into the Atlantic for a few hundred miles before turning left. It’s actually quite common out of GLA (and occasionally NCL and MAN) even when the europeans are working!

Right I understand now. I thought you had received some bad service and was wondering if the company had made the effort to try to resolve it (like they should). When it comes to the ‘flag carrier’ thing it was purely a PR thing because BA were so keen to drop it (which was fairly inexcusable really). It would have made more sense for British Midland to have used the title but they have been somewhat busy battening down their own hatches for the last few years.
Let me know when your flights are. I may be on one.