Originally posted by Airline owner
not a Bae but an avro 85

What isn’t a BAe?

LGKR, I believe he flew BLK-STN-BLK, despite his flight report ACTUALY saying BLK-STN BLK-STN !

Nice report EGNM, its a flight I’ve wanted to do before, but as it takes me 3 hours to get to STN sometimes the antisocial flight times make it a nono 🙁

Probably depends on your definition of airliner. Whilst some commercial airliners CAN reach Fl450 I think FL400 is pretty much the max any really go to in normal conditions.
However many bizjets can go to some crazy altitudes, maybe into the 500s?

Originally posted by BigJet
Back on to the subject how come BA opperate more A319 than a320 out of LHR these days, i thought all of the A319 were at Birmingham???!!!!

Nope, all Airbus’s are at LHR, BHX has RJ100 and EMB145, likewise has done for about a year now.

BA are getting new Airbuses into LHR, so far these have pushed the 737s into LGW, and when the 321s are delivered later this year some of the LHR A319s are going to LGW to replace some of the older 737s on lease (Probably the 300s and 500s)
When BA start making a bit more money the next major fleet renewal will be bulk deliveries of A319s/A320s/A321s to replace the whole LGW 737 fleet.
At the moment the plan is to keep the 767s until a sutiable successor can be found, and as such (Due to commonality) BA have no plans to retire the last 13 remaining 757s as far as I know.

ATH is no longer served from LGW, just LHR with 2 767s and 1 757 a day.

🙂

But as I just said, AV8 have NOT gone bust! Its just a change in the company organisation, all flights are still going to run as before :rolleyes:

The flights will continue to be operated by Icelandair, its just the British side of things that appears to have gone down. Another complicated one that hasn’t really gone bust just like EAL.