Very nice indeed 😀 Any pics of his further transportation to Normandy?

I have sadly only ever flown British and Irish carriers, and so my choice is rather limited, however I would say mine was a few years ago when we went for a day trip to the Scily Isles, flying from Penzance to Tresco and then from St Marys back to Penzance on a Skikorsky S.61.
I was quite young at the time and don’t remember it incredibly well, but it was a very interesting experience from what I do recall!!

The INV route seems a little weird to me, any idea how well it is performing at the moment Sonnenflieger?

Interesting report, and encouraging to know that I am not the only one that noticed the Q for Quiet Dash 8 Q400 seems more noisy and more uncomfortable on the longer sectors, I flew BHD-LGW on one last year, and found it rather distracting, albeit quite soothing, making me full asleep for the first time ever on an aircraft! It only lasted a few seconds though as I fell forward and smashed my head on the seat in front, a process which was repeated 4 or 5 times 😀

OK I see, your first post seemed to indicate you were flying BA and not FlyBe 🙂

Roll on the fuel blockades, that was, er, interesting last time 😉

Emirates is another airline, they ditched their A343’s for 777s.

Who have now just gone and bought a whole load of A343s from Singapore 😉

G-XLAC c/n 29051

G-OXLA c/n 30619

N733MA c/n 30619

So G-OXLA and N733MA are the same. N735MA as on Jethros is incorrect.

The customer code for this aircraft is 1Q, which belongs to Tombo Aviation.
On further investigation Tombo Aviation is a small leasing company of about 33 aircraft, so 30619 belongs to it.

30619 was initially delivered to Miamia Air on 30/05/01, then went to Excel one day later, then went back to Miami Air on 05/11/01 then back to Excel on 31/05/02 then back to Miami Air on 01/11/02, and now back to Excel this month!

For an aircraft so young its been through the 2 airlines a hell of a lot of times!!!!