I live in SA these days and it is wise to listen to local advice re: security when staying in any of the big cities
Wish him a speedy recovery
Nice to see the row of BA 744 tails in the Sun article
BA's Negus L1011's had "Tristar" on the rear engine intake duct and when the -500's came along, they received the title "Tristar 500", with Tristar in blue and the 500 in red. BA actively marketed the -500's, so this must have been part of that strategy. All disappeared when Land...
Jump to postGDB, an astute summary For us Brits, the 3-11 is often touted as yet another lost opportunity. In truth, it was a sensible decision not to proceed. The true market for this airliner was eventually demonstrated by the L1011 economic failure and indeed, more than partly in the subsequent demise of McD...
Jump to postI'm flying CPT-DXB-LHR and back late July, returning mid-August, so will likely get caught up in this spat.....hope EK are the better poker player!
Jump to postTo me, this is still the best idea of a livery of all the times. Not that the current livery with the Union Flag would look bad, but every time I see it, I'm sad for such brilliant tail paints to be killed before they really got into peoples minds. EXACTLY the tails were what made these livery so i...
Jump to posthttps://ewn.co.za/2022/04/06/air-belgium-to-start-seasonal-flights-in-sa-from-september
Air Belgium providing a nice new addition to our South African skies from September
Good job the late, great Herb Kelleher founded Southwest when he did.....Integrity, Guts and Nuts! (60 million bags a year apparently)
Jump to postNice to see BA back to double daily at Cape Town with the BA58/59 rotation returning last week alongside BA42/43.....we do however still miss the Queen down here
Jump to postTo give some unneeded but interesting foundation as to how very well regarded the L1011 was by BA, G-BHBR was used by the Queen during her 1986 state visit to China
Jump to postQuestion for Tristarsteve, who may know the specifics behind it. Late70’s BA lsd a L1011 from Eastern, N323EA. However, they seemed to keep it quite a while, and was never re-registered in the UK. Did they eventually buy this aircraft..? Or was it a huge lease.. like 10 yrs ish.? Infact, pretty sur...
Jump to postFlew on G-BBAF, AH and AI, all whilst they were operating for Caledonian jumpjets is right about the cabin. An incredibly voluminous space, enhanced by no overhead bins over the centre seat row....just that trendy 70's suspended ceiling! I have two great aviation disappointments. Flying LHR-BDA as a...
Jump to postWhat commercial passenger jets have landed in Antarctica? Now I’m curious what makes the list. There is a civilian Il76, operated by Volga-Dnepr which has run regular support flights from CPT over the last few years. Icelandair have also run their 767's down there from Cape Town. Indeed they had on...
Jump to postI live in Cape Town and me an my pal pinged each other when we saw this flight depart and head south....not much heads south from here!
Really great to see the video of the landing
Remember seeing that on their 707's and 747's at LHR in the 70's. Classy livery.
Jump to postThanks LAX772LR. The BA media link, already posted above, has been significantly updated BA will restart services to Cape Town, offering three flights a week in November, before moving to a double daily service in December. Quite emotional for me as i was on the 4th last ever BA 747-400 fight (G-CIV...
Jump to postMods, following this evenings UK FO announcement, is this thread going to be appropriate for wider global destinations, rather than just the over pond stuff?
SA back! Can't wait to see that first red white and blue tail over False Bay on its way into CPT.
Sorry but if you never heard anything bad about the ATP with BA you were way out of the loop. The despatch reliability was off the scale poor, spares support was appaling. The crosswind performance in KOI/LSI was borderline dangerous in comparison to the HS748. Both BA and Loganair came close to ro...
Jump to postWill be interesting to see the early loads and how the airline physically accommodates the ramp up My perception, living here in SA, is that the air-travelling public has become a little conservative given the lumps and bumps with SAA, Mango, Lift and Comair over these last few months. I now use Air...
Jump to postSAA To be privatised. Massively good news for South Africa and the South African aviation market. https://www.reuters.com/article/safrica-saa/update-1-consortium-to-take-51-stake-in-south-african-airways-minister-idUSL5N2NT1FN This is basically re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. While a 5...
Jump to postI'd posted this story in raw text a couple of days ago but forgot the mods don't believe you unless a link is included. So here is the news link. Another big blow for SA aviation infrastructure. https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-04-07-airlink-suspends-flights-to-polokwane-after-airp...
Jump to postVERY NICE!
When and where are they intended to fly?
So the madness rolls on Pravn Gordhan announced yesterday that the 10.5Bn Rand bailout would probably rise by about 4Bn Rand "The total cost of restructuring is 14Bn Rand". Notable that the Rand tanked yesterday wiping out recent steady gains. If this were a Netflex series people would hav...
Jump to postThe 10.5Bn was borrowed by the SA state
andz, I wish your missus well after such sterling service....but the SA tax payer just keeps picking up the tab for this mess
SAA's death by a 1,000 cuts continues The appointed business rescue practitioners have put SAA under "care and maintenance" until funding for a restructuring plan can be found....the Govt having failed to find the ZAR10.5bn needed to support the restructuring plan....now there is a surprise.
Jump to postWas on UKFO repatriation flight CPT-LHR on 27th May. Looks like my ride on G-CIVO was the last of a relationship flying on BA's 747 fleet going back to 1978, when I flew LHR-BDA in -136, G-AWNH G-AWNH, WNL, BDXD, DXG, BNLG (x4), NLL, NLN, NLW, NLZ, CIVA (x4), IVB, IVC (x2), IVD (x2), IVE (x2), IVG, ...
Jump to postLatest movements (courtesy of skyliner-aviation.de):Boeing 747-436 28850 1144 G-CIVP British Airways ferried 28 May 2020 BOH-LHR, after storage CIVP ran the CPT-LHR daytime repatriation flight as BA9114 on 01/06, having flown cargo down the previous evening as BA59. CIVO ran cargo down to CPT on 01...
Jump to postG-CIVO has been down to Cape Town twice (23/5 and today, 25/5) as part of 7 repatriation flights being run by the UK FCO, UK High Commission and Charter outfit CTM between the Mother City and Heathrow. There are also 3 flights operating from JHB back to LHR on 28/5, 1/6 and 4/6....this 4/6 fight bei...
Jump to postG-CIVJ and G-CIVL (both 52J's) flown from Heathrow to Kemble in last day or so. BA Source suggests unlikely to return to service.
Jump to postPerhaps the quirkiest and shortest lived "Western" operation of a former soviet block type was Brighton City Airways who operated a Czec Van Air Let410 between Shoreham and Paris Cormeilles between March and May 2013. Remember seeing quite a few Guatemalan registered Lets when I was backpa...
Jump to postI remember seeing a Lion Air (Indonesia) Yak 42 at the gate in KUL in probably the very early 2000's KLM of course operated a joint Il62 service with Aeroflot on the Amsterdam-Moscow-Tokyo run. Flight crew were Aeroflot, but cabin crew and in flight service KLM. I believe upto 9 aircraft were used i...
Jump to postThat's a rip through the 52J fleet
9/11 brought a rapid end to the BA 747 Classics; wonder if CV19 will be the same for the 744's
I flew N17025, B747-238B, operating CO25 LGW-EWR on 23rd August 1988
Jump to postThanks TUGMASTER, good observation. They did have a couple of the "knackered" 744's go tech in the proceeding days down here in CPT
Jump to postBA used B77W G-STBJ on the BA59 CPT run on 15/02 (returning as BA58 on 16/02). Given the need for a downstream 777 crew, this was not a last minute sub, so wondering is this BA dipping its 77W toe on the CPT run as the 52J fleet is slowly whittled down?
Jump to postWould love to see VS back at CPT if only to stir up the BA monopoly. A shiny A350 would be lovely! However, VS is run less emotively these days, so my head says no to CPT, when adding to the existing JNB set up (perhaps, as noted, from MAN), plus local feed can probably do the trick.
Jump to postThe local bank financing of 2bn Rand got them through to from 5th December to 19th January, so the DBSA 3.5bn will last until what, the end of March/mid April?
Dead parrot.
Lufthansa still flies A340-600 to cape town. -600 to MUC and -300 to FRA. Edelweiss also grace us here in CPT with their -300 on the ZRH service Given SA Govt is wobbling about the promised next ZAR2bn tranche, again just to keep the beast afloat, seems if you are really in the market for a very us...
Jump to postJNB TO CPT is a 2hr flight. The other destination that CPT is also used for is flights to Antarctica, mainly freight I think. The other destination, apart from LHR, LGW, MUC, FRA, VIE, DOH, ZUR, DXB, IST, ADD, LAD amongst others On the Antarctica front, met a chap last night running a G5 charter do...
Jump to postThere is a story floating around about a GII that has been set on fire after trafficking drugs around in Central America earlier this week. So one GII less. https://twitter.com/scramble_nl/status/1207054458758352896 https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20191215-0 That's the incident I...
Jump to postThere are two things that have radically changed international air travel in my lifetime (born 1965): 1. The Boeing 747-400 2. Emirates, under the leadership of STC I think history will place him in the same group as the likes of Juan Trippe, CR Smith, Herb Kelleher, Lord King, Michael O'Leary (no i...
Jump to postSo the guy who gets the job is the guy that said this in October (interview with CNBC following congressional hearings):
“From the vantage point of our board, Dennis has done everything right"
Goldfish bowl
On 12th September 2011 I flew LHR-GOT-ARN-CPH-LHR, just so I could fly on SAS MD's....bagging flights on MD81 LN-RMR (twice) and MD87 OY-KHU Almost exactly a year later, on 10th September 2012, I flew LHR-ARN-HEL-ARN-LHR so I could fly Blue 1 B717's....flying on OH-BLI and OH-BLQ. This trip was book...
Jump to postYes, they had a third pilot in the cockpit, but the key was having one pilot with the right skills, not having two or more lacking the right skills. Rev, I quietly enjoy your posts, but this made me jump. Go back and listen to those DP Davies interviews I sent you and then think about what you just...
Jump to postAs an aside, when Terminal 3 was opened in 1961, it was known as the Oceanic Building.
The original Terminal 2 (circa 1968) was forged from two components, Building 1, the Europa Building and Building 2, the Britannic Building
Terminal 1 was born as Terminal 1 in 1969
luckyone wrote:IIRC, PanAm’s originally ordered Tristar 500s went to United with the Pacific route sale in 1986. They didn’t linger long, and all went to Delta in 1988.
I did not say that. I'm sorry, you did, but I accept your sentence compilation was a tad clumsy.... All I'd asked was a memory jog as to whether PA was a launch customer for the -500....I think they were, along with BA? Wrong aircraft for Pan Am? Yep, but sadly no medals for noting that. As an asid...
Jump to postmillionsofmiles wrote:The -500s and the DC-10s acquired in the National merger were long gone at the time of shutdown.
Another way of looking at this is that Pan Am had figured three and then two engine long range jets were the way forward. Is my memory correct in thinking Pan Am were a launch customer for the L1011-500? Given the sparse historical N-reg -400 register, I think they were vindicated. Having flown on N...
Jump to postFlew CIVC on 6th August CPT-LHR and CIVA 20th August LHR-CPT. Both with the new Y cabin fit with, at last, a decent sized IFE screen. Both on time and both provided lovely smokey RB211's coming into the gate! CIVA handled the relentless chop down the Angolan coast beautifully. There is still life in...
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