727 with winglets? To be honest its rare to see one without these days as practically all the biz operators of the type have them fitted, as do the charterers in the USA.
Not really, they arent making any money on the 321 fleet as they cant fill the seats on it.
Nothing on BBC atm, however interestingly wikipedia carries news of his death!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker
This was on the BBC a few days ago as well:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2535000/2535297.stm
Very sad news, he did a lot for the industry.
Weather is looking pretty good for Monday as well at the moment. Sunshine and a positively tropical 12 degrees!
Its supposed to be the airline with the current unexercised traffic rights between MAN and SVO. I cant think who this is off the top of my head?
Business class is meant to be pretty good, but its on an ERJ so seats are no different to normal, and considering they still offer a full service down the back anyway I dont see the point.
Unless someone else is paying of course…
Robert, Andrew and myself will have an ETA in the next few days, depends on whether we have a car available to us or not. Various bribing action taking place behind the scenes currently 😉
Rose Andrew, he said rose not nose :rolleyes:
Direct, probably Heathrow – Singapore which is about 12 hours.
One day though I flew the full Heathrow – Nairobi – Seychelles route, which was about 14 hours.
Frames seem OK for me. The original release was incredibly buggy, however all the problems are now supposed to be sorted for the final boxed release. I have not had a chance to get my hand on the final release and I am using an interim version at the moment and its worked fine so far.
Its not as good as the PMDG 737 IMHO, however if you want a 737 classic for FS2004 then it fulfils that task perfectly well.
Great pics but that thomsonfly 737 looked a bit taty and out of shape i think it looked a bit better when in ryanair colurs
I REALLY do not agree, it looked a mess before:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0724801/L/
Grey Area, like Sunday, I had the advantage of a lift 😀
As if to prove my point a bmi 321 has gone off the runway at Belfast City this evening, marking at least the 3rd runway/taxiway excursion in as many days.
GB Airways is a totally separate company to BA, but operate under a franchise arrangment. This means that GB Airways have to paint their aircraft in BA colours, and oeprate a near identical BA product on board. In return they get access to the BA reservation system (notably ba.com) and get an increased level of marketing they otherwise wouldnt get.
Other BA franchises are:
BMED
Loganair
Sun-Air
Comair
Great stuff Tom, really interesting report, great to see stuff from Africa once in a while!