It depends on how busy they are. Most crews like to show people around the cockpit, but if they have a 20 minute turnaround then it gets quite difficult.

The language problem exists all over the world. I can’t think of any place in which the local ATC will not talk to the local carrier in the local language.

I believe it is G-BDXH of EAL. It is there for medium to long term storage, I don’t think there are any plans at the moment to break her up, and in any case that would be done at Kemble not Exeter.

Airport Taxes and Charges. Taxes are government controlled. Charges can cover a multitude of sins and is very ambiguous. In most cases it is just extra airport charges, although other odd things can be added in too. This is probably just a policy change from one or more of the airports FlyBe serves

I like the tail very much as I loathed the old one. The original one with a red background and a white maple leaf used by one of the founding airlines of Air Canada was my favourite. I always found the one on all the planes at the moment hard to make out from any distance.

Ah good one TWA, I was supposed to get a Dash 8 Q300 PLH-NQY-LGW but instead I travelled direct, in a Kia taxi!!!

This has been festering in several different forms for a little while now. I’m not sure whether this latest move will actualy change the attitudes of MOL and his cronies.

763s and even sometimes 762s!