Boeing 747 days are numbered
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aeropilot said:
HoHoHo said:
That’s OK and don’t worry - as soon as the London airports start to suffer the government will spend money helping everyone else around he country get better flights 
The London airports have been suffering for the past 7 months..........hence so many of us now being ex-airport workers!I really feel for you guys at the airports. I live quite near to Gatwick and have many friends who are employed in varying roles with a number of airlines and it’s s
t at best. If the industry continues at the current pace of retraction I hate to think where it will be in 6 months.Those who know me on PH also know I own an exhibition company and that’s gone, all my staff have been made redundant and currently we have no light at the end of the tunnel. I have the money, vans and logistics experience and I’ve worked hard over the last 6 months to start another business and that’s keeping me going however I was talking to a close friend who’s a training Captain (and examiner) for a major airline and he’s not got the equipment and funds readily available to simply change direction. He’s now thinking of becoming a plumber if he finds himself without a job.
Edited by HoHoHo on Thursday 22 October 19:21
aeropilot said:
HoHoHo said:
That’s OK and don’t worry - as soon as the London airports start to suffer the government will spend money helping everyone else around he country get better flights
The London airports have been suffering for the past 7 months..........hence so many of us now being ex-airport workers!I really feel for you guys at the airports. I live quite near to Gatwick and have many friends who are employed in varying roles with a number of airlines and it’s s
t at best. If the industry continues at the current pace of retraction I hate to think where it will be in 6 months.Those who know me on PH also know I own an exhibition company and that’s gone, all my staff have been made redundant and currently we have no light at the end of the tunnel. I have the money, vans and logistics experience and I’ve worked hard over the last 6 months to start another business and that’s keeping me going however I was talking to a close friend who’s a training Captain (and examiner) for a major airline and he’s not got the equipment and funds readily available to simply change direction. He’s now thinking of becoming a plumber if he finds himself without a job.
Edited by HoHoHo on Friday 23 October 05:58
LHRFlightman said:
Some Virgin 744's remain at Heathrow. They'll be departing when the weather gets better for a proper send off.
That’s really good news. I totally get that giving people a “spectacle” when they depart is way way down the list of priorities, but I really hope to get an opportunity to see a departure. If the weather had played ball last were, the double BA 747 departure would have been very nice to see.HoHoHo said:
I really feel for you guys at the airports. I live quite near to Gatwick and have many friends who are employed in varying roles with a number of airlines and it’s st at best. If the industry continues at the current pace of retraction I hate to think where it will be in 6 months.
Now instead of BA A380's at T5 we now get China Southern A380's, maybe a sign of things to come when we've let our airlines go to the wall !t at best. If the industry continues at the current pace of retraction I hate to think where it will be in 6 months.
David87 said:
I read earlier that the Landor 747-400 may end up at Duxford. Amazing if it did, but could it get in there? Looked on Wikipedia and it says the runway is just under 5,000ft; is that enough for a 747 running on fumes?
Looking at the astonishingly short distance the Negus scheme 747 stopped in on a soaking wet 6500ft Kemble runway, I would say yes, easily. From where it touched down to where it stopped was around 3000ft so it should be able to get into Duxford.aeropilot said:
David87 said:
I read earlier that the Landor 747-400 may end up at Duxford. Amazing if it did, but could it get in there? Looked on Wikipedia and it says the runway is just under 5,000ft; is that enough for a 747 running on fumes?
Looking at the astonishingly short distance the Negus scheme 747 stopped in on a soaking wet 6500ft Kemble runway, I would say yes, easily. From where it touched down to where it stopped was around 3000ft so it should be able to get into Duxford.aeropilot said:
David87 said:
I read earlier that the Landor 747-400 may end up at Duxford. Amazing if it did, but could it get in there? Looked on Wikipedia and it says the runway is just under 5,000ft; is that enough for a 747 running on fumes?
Looking at the astonishingly short distance the Negus scheme 747 stopped in on a soaking wet 6500ft Kemble runway, I would say yes, easily. From where it touched down to where it stopped was around 3000ft so it should be able to get into Duxford.Legend83 said:
si_xsi said:
a BA 747 making its way from Cardiff to Dunsfold today so i'm told by my Brother in Law who is flying it. Should be around midday.
Would that be Chris per chance?https://mobile.twitter.com/Magsmeister23?s=09&...
One at Kemble is being saved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestersh...
Eric Mc said:
I love the Negus scheme- and I quite like the current one too. I’ve never been a fan of grey aeroplanes- and the Landor scheme was way too grey for me.
It also didn’t help that both United and Canadian Airlines chose remarkably similar schemes around the same time.
The typewriter style font and lowercase “a” airways bugs me. Landor on the other hand brings back memories of the exciting times when I was filling out BA job application forms and finally joining them, just as they transitioned to World Images. I guess that livery just coincides with my salad days. It also didn’t help that both United and Canadian Airlines chose remarkably similar schemes around the same time.
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