Alfie!!:D

Thanks for posting

If will quietly slip especially since the Americans love numbers rather than names….TriStar being a El Ten-Eleven to them.

Lufthansa don’t call their 747-830 “i”‘s or Intercontinental, a name once applied to the 707-320/420 but never, it seemed, in actual use.

C-5, C-141, C-17, C-47 and in fact most, if not all military types that have a name, seem never to be used by the US unless it’s a nickname

I read a while back that the nacelles were specially coated and fully finished so not suitable for repainting….similar to wings

Surely that doesn’t mean that by arrangement the original fully finished could be done in other colours.

To come out of Boeing like this doesn’t surprise me, if they had been delivered white or grey and then painted that would have seemed to contradict.

Who knows…there might even been some small disadvantage that BA accepts, but really, given the problems with this type recently and the complexity of modern airlines, is this really important??

Yes…I know about the inability to feather the prop…

A situation that will be looked into.

Aurigny have always, in the past maintained that the Trislander was wholly suitable and if it had to go then the service might too.

Blue Islands criticised Aurigny for the Trislander Yet they themselves used the type in Alderney. They sold their Trislanders when they pulled out of Alderney.

If they do replace it with Twin Otters for example, which as I said earlier they did have but they were as financial disaster, then the new type would have to be subsidised and heavily too. If that does become the case, then it would be better to hold off and use that money to improve Alderney to be able to take a variety of types no possible at the moment.

Alderney does need upgrading and it will have to be done sometime.

Maybe now is the time.

Alderney is the ONLY reason it has to be Trislanders.

The Trislanders are noisy and uncomfortable by modern standards. If they could have replaced them easily, they would have, years ago.

My concern is a change is being forced up them, and that can backfire.

I doubt if they ever envisaged using the for even half as long as that have. They may well have assumed at in ten of so years Alderney will have been improved/

Aurigny were until recently still committed to the type. They have been testing GPS landing systems to enable them to get into Aldereny in poor weather.

Only recently, with maintenance issues, mainly with the ATR, have cause a bit of a backlash.

This is possibly more to do they them shrinking Anglo Normandy and no longer doing all the maintenance on island where the spares used to be available and repairs could be carried out quickly

The ATR fleet are the hangar Queens and the Trislander plods about doing it’s job but seems to be the scapegoat for Aurignys woes.

I’m not saying the Trislander shouldn’t be replace, I’m just saying it’s not straightforwards as it would be between major hubs

As for the Islands population…the are running a save JOEY campaign

This has been coming up on various forums over the last week. One thing that seems to be getting forgotten is that Aurigny already tried the Twin Otter years ago.

High maintenance cost and not liking frequent starts were just two of many reasons the type or any TP was found to be most unsuitable for the frequent Inter Island runs

Blue Islands also find the Jetstream expensive to run

There is a very good reason why the Trislander is still going after all these years. Nothing else can do the job as well, let alone better.