Nah, the Shed was much more fun – flew lower down, the windows were bigger, so better views – and they didn’t go tech so often. And in terms of “modern” turboprops, IMHO the Saab 2000, and the Dornier 328 in particular, are somewhat better than the ATP.

Flew on G-BMYK 41 times, G-BMYM 33 times and G-BMYL 17 times. Also flew on G-MAUD twice, and G-ERIN, G-LOGB, G-MANL and G-OBWL once each. So, didn’t quite make 100 flights on ATPs. I have no desire to do the extra three ATP flights and make it 100, thank you!

Andy

Titan have some long term contracts for night-time mail with the post office, just as did various airlines (748s of Emerald, Bandierantes of Air Ecosse, etc) in the past. Its fairly reasonable that the airline paints its airplane in the colours of the company it operates for.

Andy

I don’t “do” charters – not been on one for more than ten years. However, this reduction in service doesn’t surprise me. Its all part of the Southwest / EasyJet / Ryanair syndrome – almost everyone wants the lowest prices these days, very few people are prepared to pay a few pounds more for quality service, and so everything gets dumbed down to the lowest common factor (and often, its very common). Charter airlines have little choice, because in a fair proportion of their markets they’re competing with CrappyJet and the like.

Ah….. sunny California. I can smell the palms, great shots. I too am off to turn green whilst casually sniffing my bottle of sun lotion. 😀

What is he ranting on about…? :confused: If he thinks Las Vegas is in California, he’s already been sniffing that suntan lotion too much!!! :rolleyes: 😀

Andy

No doubt Ryanair don’t have music – a £0.50 tape for each airplane is far too expensive an item for them to spend money on!

wysiwyg, I’m not coming from anywhere… I was relating the thoughts of a full-time SIA 777 captain, who’s opinion I value very highly, who I know personally and have done for many years and who has thousands of hours commercial PIC, as far as long range 777 ETOPS on the SIA network are concerned.