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May 17, 2004 at 8:28 pm in reply to: CAA figures for April have been published #636052

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Wow! I just mentioned in another thread about us catching up with Manchester and overtaking to become the UK’s 3rd busiest. Looks quite likely, with Stansted exapnding at 24.3% since the same period last year! Huge exapnsion, quite unbelievable actually. Only about 3,000 passengers difference this month between the airports, and with STN expanding at twice the rate of MAN it might not take long.

May 17, 2004 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Another new MAN route #636057

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Hearing about all these masses of routes make MAN seem very busy. It’s hard to think it’s PAX numbers are almost identical to that of STN’s. Around the 20 million mark at the moment, and if Ryanair keep expanding at their current rate I think we may overtake to become the UK’s third busiest. Just have to wait and see……..

May 17, 2004 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Look out, rare shots coming through! And no, they're not from Borneo. #636067

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It was in for maintenance, wing corrosion. IGOE was the only one going out to the desert, but I think it has since been seen flying for Phillipines.

May 17, 2004 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Look out, rare shots coming through! And no, they're not from Borneo. #636081

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Thanks for the comment, but the Go livery is pretty much gone now. Last time I saw them, there were 2 left. Those being G-IGOA and ODUS. Haven’t seen them for a while though, atleast a month, so not sure whether they still retain the livery 🙁 G-IGOC was another one, but this has since gone over to Titan, and is currently undergoing freighter conversion.

May 17, 2004 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Look out, rare shots coming through! And no, they're not from Borneo. #636166

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Yep, sure is! Imagine the fun you can have with an airside pass 😎

May 17, 2004 at 6:02 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636178

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Australian Airlines was set up by Qantas to offer low(er) cost flights. The inbound leg was operated by a QF aircraft, althought the crew, service and inflight shopping was all Australin Airlines. On my way out, I did fly in one of the ‘bright orange’ ones. I flew out on VH-OGI, one of the four that fly in the full Australin Airways colour scheme. Thanks for the comments!

May 17, 2004 at 5:28 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636202

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Thanks a lot for the comments guys! Well I might have seen you Mark, if I wasn’t flying BA. Not with the dirt on those windows 😎

May 17, 2004 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Electronic Devices #636206

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I don’t think many airlines are concerned about the use of digital cameras on board. If most of you have seen my Borneo report, you will see how many pics I took at all stages in the flight. That’s not even half of them, I actually took about 350. Didn’t get asked or told off once.

May 17, 2004 at 5:11 pm in reply to: First fligh of the Trent 900 engine #636248

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Wow! Absolutely huge. I met a guy on holiday, on the design team for the Trent-900 and -1000. He said they’ve been having lots of problems with the -900, as Rolls Royce are struggling to meet Airbus’ huge demands. Apparently, the fan blades carry on weakening in places that they never have before, and researchers are currently trying to find new composites that might stand up to the forces.

May 16, 2004 at 7:10 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636761

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And here are the final ones! First coming to a halt, note in the first shot a UAE 744. Second shot just shows BA World Freight centre, then next is a UA777 holding for us. 4th has a UA777 in the new livery, and finally is one of the best liveries around, Bmi! Hope you all enjoyed them, please feel free to post any comments or questions.

May 16, 2004 at 7:03 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636800

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These next lot were all on approach for RWY27L. Sorry about the low quality in the first pic, was the only rushed pic of central London I could get. Spot Canary Wharf, the Milennium Dome and London City Airport. The next two are over Western London, the 4th one appears to be some kind of Air Canada distribution centre, and please excuse the quality in the last one aswell. I know it’s blurred, but it’s always been my wish to get a picture of….Myrtle Avenue from the air! 😀

May 16, 2004 at 6:55 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636838

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These few pics show us skimming the clouds whilst stacking for Heathrow. We were only in the stack for under 5 minutes, quite good for this time of the morning.

May 16, 2004 at 6:52 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636862

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These first few were taken during taxi to the runway, and the first one on push back.

May 16, 2004 at 6:48 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636885

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Thanks Excel! Now for the final flight……

I was expecting the 767, but was still hoping that an Airbus would turn up. Unfortunately it never did, and we ended up on the 767 G-BNWY. I don’t have anything in particular against 767’s, but firstly I am bored of them as they are my most flwon aircraft, and secondly the BA 767’s are renowned for being the worst in BA’s fleet. And so they were. Only half the plane was fitted with newer leather seats, the rest were the old seats made out of falling apart fabrics. Lots of rubbish around, and the interior generally looked worn out and tatty. We pushed back 20 minutes late, and had a long taxi down past all of the parked Lufthansa aircraft to the runway.

There are not many pics from this flight, as the window was so dirty that my camera was finding it hard to focus on anything outside the aircraft! Most of the pics I got were as we were close to the ground at London, and I couldn’t get any on take off due to the sun pointing directly at my camera and causing lots of glare.

May 16, 2004 at 6:41 pm in reply to: It's the long awaited…Borneo trip report! #636888

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Just a bit of information about the previous flight, it was coincidentally operated by VH-OJB again. On the ground at Singapore we had to wait for a special sequencing pattern before we could go, meaning we had to sit on the plane for atleast an hour at the gate. Bearing in mind that Singapore is on the equator, the fact that it was 11pm made no difference to the temperature. This made air conditioning absolutely essential with a fully packed 747……that’s when the APU broke down. We sat there in a sweltering hot cabin for atleast half hour before the captain got one of the engines spooling to get some power back for the air conditioning. Not a very nice start to the flight, and people started to get very agitated with the crew at this point.

Anyhow, we took off 1 and a half hours late into the night, and it wasn’t until 9 hours later that we saw daylight again. Fortunately, we made up time and landed less than 20 minutes late. All in all another excellent service by Qantas, just a shame about the (un-avoidable) problem at the beginning.
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