Twisty sticks aren’t very good, you end up twisting them when you don’t want to! I have a “rocker” on my throttle which works quite well, but I’m not sure they still sell my joystick combo…

Which colour scheme was it, then I can identify the reg and tell you what it was doing?

Nice report Comet, yet your beuatiful features still evade us in the photogrpahs 😉

The 737-500s were built in around 1990, and have passed through an average of 4 or 5 operators utilising the aircraft on some high density routes. The seats are likely to have been changed 1 or 2 times in the aircrafts life time, and so are hardly going to be in the same pristine condition as a 6 month old Airbus. The aircraft are likely to be retired at the end of this year, or the beginning of next year, so an entire refitting or recovering of these aircrafts interior is not something ANY airline would do, be it BA or anyone else.

Awaiting the same fate I would imagine…

Either they are hush-kitted or they are on Humanitarian flights. We get them into Lasham for maintenace fairly regularly.

I am not aware of any 757s due to leave the fleet, they are all likely to go at once. BPEE just probably needs a touch of paint like the other 757s do…