Was joking, I promise. I suspect the good residents who buy houses cheap near Heathrow then wonder why planes are flying overhead might have something to say if Tridents did take to the skies again!

Mike

Are any of these expected to reenter service when the airline industry picks up again?

Mike

Is it just me or is that logo a speedbird?

Mike

Originally posted by airbusbaby
The Renaissance Heathrow is great if you can get a room at the back of the hotel looking onto the runway, obviously the higher floors are better!

They’re always happy to accommodate requests for rooms overlooking the runway – these are actually the rooms that many people ask not to be in.

You can earn miles for many major airlines by staying there too 🙂

Mike

I find Ryanair’s comments that Strasbourg will lose a lot of tourism through the shift to Baden Baden quite amusing considering that just 40km away from Strasbourg is quite close by RyanAir standards, certainly close enough to be called Strasbourg.

Mike

It seems to me with the number of abortive projects recently (747X, Sonic Cruiser etc) that Boeing themselves are not sure where to go from here.

Can’t see them fading though. The 7E7 looks much more in line with their view of long haul aviation’s future – smaller aircraft flying point-to-point direct rather than hub-hub. I think they may well be right, and that the numbers of new RegionalJet routes are evidence of this.

However, I also think they may have underestimated future demand for really big aircraft.

Mike

I hope UAL aren’t about to join this list – my wife’s currently on one of their 777s from LHR to IAD and only ‘E’ seats in the centre of the 5-wide central block were available on check in (we had flown down from MAN on BD who were unable to check her in for United there earlier because the flight number for her IAD-CMH connection had changed).

To add to that I just found on UAL’s site that it’s nearly 2 hours late due to a schedule change caused by aircraft servicing 🙁

Mike