Matthew: THe Qantas RR 767s are ex BA on a kind of permenant lease. BA won’t ever be taking them back 😉

Mongu: Yes the 319s will be going to Jersey, and everywhere on the current LGW Shorthaul network. There are no plans that I am aware of to scrap any of the routes except the Isle of Man, but they told us that about 3 years ago 😀

In October the first of BAs A321s start arriving into Heathrow, and are being deployed on routes to Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris, Oslo, Geneva, and Zurich. Following the first arrivals of A321s in October a number of A319s presently based at Heathrow will transfer across to Gatwick, and start replacing 737s there. When the last of the A321s is delivered to Heathrow new ordered A319s will then replace the last remaining 737s at Gatwick. A320 conversion training has already begun on Gatwick based pilots, but the whole process won’t be completed until the very end of next year at the absolute earliest.

Lovely shot of the Electra there, never seen one flying at low level, only parked up or going over the top.

I will investigate this further tomorrow and get a run down of say last few days average on time departures, and read through the reports associated with delays. I must say the only time I went to the IOM was on an ATP, and both flights ran to time 😀

I managed to go out there OK, but coming back home the entire fleet went tech so they had to put us all in taxis. The only other person on the flight that had “flown” them before had had to be taxiied home from LGW before as well. Never again!

So many new routes being launched. All so cheap. Decisions. Aaarrgh!

Air Ukraine currently have a fleet of 110 odd aircraft, any suspension of operations would have a phenomonal effect on the local region and would surely have been reported elsewhere by now.

Jeremy stopped working for Aeroflot several years ago I believe.

Well after about 5 days of flying we circumnavigated the globe, with no major problems, and some money raised for charity in the process.

The whole team was great, including Walter the tech genius, and of course Andrew who got Jeremy and a MyTravel captain into the sim, and got us on the BBC website, 3 newspapers and 2 radio stations, including a live interview from the man himself! A thoroughly enjoyable week 😀