Probably don’t have a record of charters. I will speak to some people tonight who might though 😉
Very sad indeed 🙁
Well done Ian great work. The forum is looking tidier already! 🙂
I use NMU personally. Invaluable and very powerful tool that I have spent the last year updating as much as possible.
UR09307 is I believe the only one still flying out of that lot?
Hampshire police have an Islander based that way, could be him, or could be something on a training flight from Bembridge.
Yep, the plane will be chartered by Firstchoice but they will offer it out to the smaller agents (Like James Villas) if they have remaining space and try to get some more money out of it.
James Villas should know, if they don’t they will ask firstchoice for you.
Will probably do yes, but if you have bought it through firstchoice then maybe not. Best speak to the travel agent.
The flights to Innsbruck and Chambrey operating from NCL, DUB, BOH etc in the winter operate using 737s positioned from LGW, something along the lines of LGW-NCL-INN-NCL-LGW, or LGW-CFM-BOH-CFM-LGW.
However where BA have based aircraft (Not DUB, NCL, BOH etc) like BHX or LGW they will use the based aircraft. At LGW that will be a straight forward LGW-INN-LGW.
At BHX as you have rightly said they only have RJ100s and ERJ145s. In the summer charter programme the ERJ145s usualy fly on charters to Jersey, and the RJ100s everywhere else.
If the charter is particularly full, like this winter on flights from BHX to Turin, 2 RJ100s will operate. Its cheaper doing it that way than bringing in a plane from LGW (They never do it with LHR based planes so won’t be a 757/767/320/319, and a 777 on a summer charter is a bit ridiculous.
Most likely you will be on an RJ100, but if you are travelling with other people and you have not booked the tickets together then if there are 2 planes going they will both run under the same flightnumber but not callsign, so it is possible you won’t fly together.
Hope this helps,
Mark
Indeed, its a very very small airside area there with just the one shop. The advantage of SOU is that minimum check in time is quite low, so you don’t have to have too much time hanging around. 15 minutes with BA 😀
Hes getting a 767 as well 😮 His golden 737 BBJ is always with us here at Farnborough, as well as an entourage of other private jets.
I wonder if the local council will be swayed to change the licence agreement on the airport to allow the 767 to land, in exchange for some of Mr Abromaviches big money!
Sabena and Sobelair went bust, Virgin Express or VEX or whatever they call themselves now are having to diversify quite a bit to stay afloat, RYR and their STN-CRL service debacle, and not many airlines are wanting to come into Zaventem, with SN Brussels providing the minimal level of connectionstp BRU as possible, largely with 146s.
Considering the amount of money that the EU through away I would have though some of that would have gone on expensive plane tickets.:rolleyes:
737s with the major European airlines are nowhere near as popular as they once were. The plane of choice is the Airbus, as has been shown by BA, Air France, Lufthansa etc buying these in bulk.
Its not fair to say that the 737 is just going to dissapear as many carriers still own lots of SH Boeings, but they are being phased out rapidly, for example BA no longer operate the 737 at LHR anymore.
And of course also people like KLM and THY have large 737NG fleets too.
With the idea completely Ian, for exactly the same reasons everyone has mentioned.
Also there was a mini debate earlier over the rating system and also this new feature of rating forum members. I have a nagging feeling that this just might help to exacerbate the problem with members getting frustrated that others are constantly putting them down or whatever.
Changing the subject absolutely completely, I thought BA had a 6’3″ height restriction for pilots?