SOU flights will not start now. Theres no way A1 are going to compete on a route, especially with a carrier that is well known at both ends of the market, and that uses far bigger aircraft. IOM-SOU would not be nice in a PA31.

Yup it is possible on the 747, but you can only really fit one or two in, and its a tight squeeze.. You can quite often see a nice Ferrari or Lamborghini on a pallet sitting outside the cargo areas at Heathrow ready for a flight, usually to the US, the Middle East, or the Far East.

Neither are in a pure cargo form at the moment, although inevitably it will happen at some stage. The closest we are to it is their conversion to Tankers for various Air Forces. The A330 for the RAF, and I think now the A342 for the French, both of which should see service sometime this decade.

Great shots everyone. After a relatively long break from me I’m back into the flying lark, and doing SIN-LHR today. I’ve just passed Banda Acheh, which was one of the worst hit areas of the Tsunami region in 2004:

Bond do a lot of work for the Coastguard, but I’m not entirely sure how the agreement works, you’d probably have to ask around the mil forum for that.

London Heliport doesnt have any scheduled operations, it is used almost entirely for people entering London from their homes in the country, or more usually for passengers transferring into London from biz jets after having arrived into airports such as Farnborough or Stansted.

I haven’t read a heli trip report for a while. There are two well know scheduled routes I know of in Europe. The first is one I have personally flown on, linking Penzance with the Scily Isles operated by British International. Also there is the Malta-Gozo airlink operated by Spanish operator Helisul, who I think also actually have their own scheduled operation out of Malaga as well.

I wish more people would make an offer like that, I’d be up in a flash. Sadly there are far more people who just take the numbers and have no real interest in flying which means that a) “Aviation Enthusiasts” get a bad reputation as a whole, and b) People like yourself are understandably loathe to being bitten twice after experiencing one awkward silence 🙁

Both Tuesday and Friday are OK for me, I’ve not got anything better to do this week 😀

OK excellent well let me know nearer the time. Weather forecast doesnt look too bad for Tuesday either in actual fact 😎