Heres the answer that have been answered correctly so far
1. How many airports in the UK have regular flights to Palma de Mallorca? (1) (2 extra for listing them all)
Yes, it’s 25 – Aberdeen, Belfast Int’l, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Inverness, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, London Luton, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham East Midlands, Southampton
2. How many airports do Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) serve with scheduled flights? (1) (2 extra for listing them all) (2 extra for adding the other 2 destinations that they regularly serve!)
Yep, 18 – Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brussels, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham Tees Valley, Humberside, Inverness, Isle Of Man, Leeds Bradford, London City, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham East Midlands, Southampton, Stornoway, Wick
3. What is the runway designation at Leeds Bradford (LBA/EGNM)? (1)
Easy one, 14/32 is correct
4. Which airline uses the code VSG? (1 for old name / 2 for correct name)
Air Class Airways, formerly Visig of course
5. How many aircraft do bmibaby have based at Durham Tees Valley (MME/EGNV)? (1) (2 extra for correct a/c type)
2x B733 is the right answer!
6. How many aircraft do Air Southwest have in their fleet as of 02/07/06? (1)
5, all Dash 8-300
7. What date does the Winter 2006/07 season start for scheduled flights? (2) (1 for being within 1 day either way)
Yep 29th October
8. What is the G- registration of Flybe’s first Embraer ERJ-195? (1)
G-FBEA it is!
9. How many Airbus A320-100’s do British Airways have? (2) (1 extra for listing them)
5, registered as G-BUSB/C/D/E/F
10. What is the new name for Air Atlanta Europe? (1)
Finally, yes they have been merged into Excel Airways
More questions soon!
Scott
We already have 2 Goldtrail full time flights 😛 And we get a third Onur starting on 20th July for Holidays4u. Good news for LBA though and strange that they didn’t start the Dalaman in May!
Scott
Yep good news!
Scott
Indeed it is, on the G-reg anyway. Otherwise I would imagine that TF-AME/AMJ/AMK are all registered to them because XL would have to G-reg them to be registered to XL
Scott
No that Reus flight is for MYT
Thomsonfly are getting the exact same a/c (EC-FTS) on lease from 1st July – 31st July
Scott
I doubt it very much considering you have to go all the way down and round the loop !
Oh there is!
Flightline used a Spanair MD83 (Spanair a/c, crew etc) on our Reus flight (runs (DUB-)MME-REU-BFS-REU-MME(-DUB) on Mondays) and with Spanair doing it, it regularly got back (STA is 2110) around 0100-0200. Now that they got rid of Spanair and now MAPjet are doing it, it arrives back most weeks before 2200! Big difference!
Scott
According to Jethro’s TOM have leased a Spanair MD80 for a month!
Seems a bit random.
Have they done this before during the summer? Or is it current fleets problems?
Anyone shed any light?
Yes this is on the CAA lease thingy for this week, they’re blaming it on late delivery of aircraft (do they have anything due? maybe a B733 for the low cost side) and they had an Air Europa B738 not long back (we got lumbered with it at MME – better not get this one 😡 )
Scott
Yes a very good description of the mail network/system that runs at night, and as Steve will accept, he has spent a lot of time teaching me about the system (also flytecomm did a bit of the teaching ;)) so I could get it onto Flight Sim!
Scott
Don’t think there will have been much, if anything, as most aircraft were simply landed in Canada or at other airports in the US (Boston, Bangor etc) or turned back, maybe via a refuelling stop in Keflavik and returned to there airports of origin (ie LHR, FRA etc)
Scott
Wow Eastern + Flybe really hate each other at the moment! Good news for LBA though.
If only our management here at DTV could be quite as good at getting new routes! They haven’t even announced the winter Geneva yet, mind you neither have Baby!
Scott
Yes Excel’s B743 TF-AMK on yet another flight to the Gulf, arriving from Brize Norton around 0905, it departed out to the Gulf (destination can be gained from flytecomm) about 1100, will be back tmro morning from the Gulf before departing to Brize Norton. XLA104 outbound XLA105 inbound
Scott
It’ll probably be A343 and A319LR (long/short)
Scott
alphajet goes at 1100, with Thomsonfly at 0830 and Thomas Cook at 0905
alphajet will be a B738, might be lucky and get the winglets one (50% chance of course)
Scott
Today has seen Excel operate from MME to Brize Norton, and then onto Al Udeid as XLA105
Not quite 100% 🙂 The B743 operated as XLA104 BZZ-MME-Al Udeid yesterday morning then XLA105 Al Udeid-MME-BZZ arriving back into BZZ around 1230 lunchtime today
Scott