Loving those bare-metal 737 shots Adam – Chris if you didn’t have a week off I think the boss would be a bit upset:D

Great shots all round guys 🙂

At BA, longhaul types each have a set number of crew, shorthaul types depend on length of flight and number of pax in each cabin. We will never leave base with less crew, airport standby’s being used to provide top-up crew where needed. We will however fly with less crew if necessary to get a flight back to base.

1L.

Hiya 1L that’s what my understanding was, based upon XL airways SOP.

Great use of vinyls there! Nice shots as well 🙂

Most aircraft operate with more than the standard minimum crew on board, so if one is ill they are able to operate with less than ‘normal’ but still in legal limits.

However an aircraft will never leave base with less than full crew on-board, and this is why they have stand-bys. If they need to operate with -1 CCM then this is done when the company is unable to provide an extra crew member without delaying the flight. IN that case, the crew follow Op. procedures which re-allocate duties to the remaining members, such as door arming and cross checking and emergeny evacuation procedures. It’s because of situations such as this that crew manuals are so thick!

Oops. Yes, EGCC 🙂

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Great shots from everyone there! Don’t you mean EGCC UK2000 scenery??
(Passengers in for a bit of a shock if they think they’re going to Heathrow and land at MAN! :D:D:D)

Had a bit of a brain wave today, a Monarch flight to Kos on Wedensday was operated by a Boeing 757, does this mean MON1288 will be a 757 or is it still an A321. Also sticking on similer topic, arent Monarch leasing a BMI A321.
Hope it stays blue.

Can’t comment on the first part, however Monarch are not as far as I know leasing an A321 from bmi but actually taking one -ex bmi (G-MIDE) from the lessor. This will become G-OZBL, it was due in April.