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  • February 24, 2004 at 12:39 pm in reply to: BA Getting 777-300? #660128
    Mark L
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    They have 57 744s and have never sold any of them yet, although like Sandy says 15 are expected to go, possible to Cathay. BA wouldn’t be able to afford the planes as such, although I know very few airlines that buy their planes outright rather than either leasing them, or borrowing the money in the first place.
    Whether it would be a good idea to add to their mountain of debt is a different question though…

    February 24, 2004 at 10:32 am in reply to: BA Getting 777-300? #660419
    Mark L
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    Yup, this has been on the cards for a while now. BA still have a vast amount of options on the 777 fleet, operations do not now justify 57 747-400s considering a number of these are parked up at Heathrow anyway, capacity reduction and fleet modernisation is now the order of the day.

    February 23, 2004 at 2:34 pm in reply to: Man 22-02-04 #662829
    Mark L
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    Agreed, that plane must be very near MTOW I reckon.

    February 23, 2004 at 2:06 pm in reply to: LHR-MAN-IOM-MAN-LHR Flight report. #662832
    Mark L
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    Thanks for the input Skypilot, to be honest I don’t think I have ever seen a Viscounts cockpit, it just seemed to match a stereotype I had of it, lots of funny levers and knobs (More so than a Dash 8 I would have said, but you’ve flown them a bit more than me 😀 ) and they all seem to be falling apart a bit in the front too, not to mention the back where I could move the fittings about an inch fom where they should have been!

    February 23, 2004 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Photo of the day Feb 23 #662834
    Mark L
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    Looking forward to going there for a weekend in May! On a 767-300 too I might add 😀

    February 22, 2004 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Some piccies from Manchester (20/02/04) #664377
    Mark L
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    Your BA 767 would have been G-BNWH, same as always, flying to JFK.

    February 22, 2004 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Eastern Airways : Norwich and Aberdeen to Groningen! #664381
    Mark L
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    Hmm, for some reason I thought they were ER3s. Oh well :rolleyes:

    February 22, 2004 at 12:28 pm in reply to: HAPPY BIRTHDAY steve rowell !! #664386
    Mark L
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    Happy Birthday Steve! 🙂

    February 22, 2004 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Trident 3b G-awzk……saved!!!!!!!!! #664392
    Mark L
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    Great news trident man. About the demolition of West Base though, that is a pretty big site, is the whole thing coming down, or just certain hangars?

    February 21, 2004 at 9:49 pm in reply to: Barcelona meet 2004 ? #665343
    Mark L
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    T5, don’t get too excited about the 767s, they are arguably the worst planes in the BA fleet pax wise 🙁

    February 21, 2004 at 9:44 pm in reply to: UA unveisl new colorscheme! #665348
    Mark L
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    Cheaper

    February 21, 2004 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Help, I'm going crazy! Air Malta BHX-ACE??? #665848
    Mark L
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    735? According to my book B733, A319, and A320 are all Air malta operates?

    February 21, 2004 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Eastern Airways : Norwich and Aberdeen to Groningen! #665849
    Mark L
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    I think it will be a 135 as Eastern don’t have any 145s. At the moment the oil companies charter aircraft to fly Norwhich – Groningen quite a lot, so it makes sense for Eastern to actualy sell the surplus seats to general members of the public.

    February 21, 2004 at 1:58 pm in reply to: BA223 changing to BA293 #666615
    Mark L
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3509081.stm

    February 21, 2004 at 1:53 pm in reply to: BA223 changing to BA293 #666619
    Mark L
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    Its the one that has been targeted. There are 3 BA flights to IAD and 1 to BWI a day and only the 223 has been targeted. One possibility is that it is purely the significance in the flightnumber, and so BA have nothing to lose with changing it to 293.

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