That’s very nice and would be a big step up from their current livery.

Evening All

I am flying to the USA soon on Virgin Atlantic from London, i am a liitle scared of flying. Is it true they have air marshals on all flights over the USA.

Regards

Neil

You don’t have to be scared, most flights don’t have those air marshalls.

I’m all in favour of being environmentally friendly, but how insane can you be? The effect of this crap proposal (look mom, I made a pun!) is marginal. Why not look at measures that actually will help. For instance, reduce the flightspeed by a few percent to get really noticable results. On a short haul flight the difference won’t even be noticed!

People will do anything for airtime and money.

That plane only joined the Contact Air fleet very recently. I spotted this very plane Eindhoven 30-June, still in Mandarin Airlines livery. It arrived at Woensdrecht for mayor overhaul a few days later. So it was delivered at most two and a half months ago, but probably closer to or less then two months.

KL: Not that good, mainly due to an ageing fleet. The IFE is pathetic interesting fares though…

Have you flown KLM recently? Most of their wide-body fleet now has PTV. Only the make-over of the B747 fleet has not been finished. KLM´s IFE is among the best if you don´t mind me saying.

As for the aging fleet, check back in a under two years. The classic 737s are mostly replaced, just a few left. The F100s are in their twilight, the few remaining F50s have only half a year left. That only leaves the F70, MD11 and the B747 as old. And as mentioned the 747 and MD11 have a completely new cabin (will have in the case of the 747 as the work is ongoing).

The rest of the fleet are very young B737s, B777s, A330s and E190s.

As Andy said above, they had it painted special c/s for their 60th a/c.. There are quite a lot of a/c flying around in Boeing house c/s..CAL 744,Alaska 738 i shot a Lion Air 739 in Jakarta in the scheme also.. Maybe they get a discount from Boeing for free advertising??:D

And in the past there where also a Korean Airlines 739 (seen at Farnborough) and a Air Berlin 73G. Those two have been painted into regular livery though.