Ex-Britannia 757(s) at Gatwick

[MikeGTi]

While sat near Gatwick I've noticed a few ex-Britannia 757s landing, but they don't appear on FlightRadar or ADS-B exchange and I haven't managed to spot a reg..

Does anyone know who's operating them and what for?

Tbh as I don't have ant reg it could just be one aircraft that I've seen a number of times...

[anonymous-user]

There’s a Spanish outfit with a B777 and a B757 that have a similar colour scheme doing sub charters for someone at the moment.










Was it possibly them?

[MikeGTi]

They definitely look like the culprits!

[djc206]

Operating for Norwegian airlines long haul. Callsign Rednose. We’ve had A340-300’s, B777’s and I think some A330-200’s if memory serves.

[Eric Mc]

The last Britannia colour scheme disappeared many years ago.

[Composite Guru]

I thought most of the Brits aircraft had been changed to TUI livery?

I recently landed at Gatwick and noticed a couple of BY reg'ed ones sat there.

[Leadfoot]

Privilege style.

777 for Norwegian.

757 for Iceland air

[RobbyJ]

I spotted one on FR24. The charter company name sounds fancy but the seats look standard economy when you google pics of the cabin.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

Loved their design

[Teddy Lop]

Leadfoot said:

Privilege style.

777 for Norwegian.

757 for Iceland air

filling in for grounded maxs?

This must be killing the airlines.

[Wozy68]

Teddy Lop said:

Leadfoot said:

Privilege style.

777 for Norwegian.

757 for Iceland air

filling in for grounded maxs?

This must be killing the airlines.

But better than the Max killing us

[wolfracesonic]

Am I right in thinking 757s are a bit a hot rod as far as airliner performance is concerned?

[anonymous-user]

wolfracesonic said:

Am I right in thinking 757s are a bit a hot rod as far as airliner performance is concerned?

Yes they’re very overpowered. I used to fly them and they have great performance and great brakes. You can land and take off in all sorts of short runways.l and they had good range.

They were 70s technology though and not very efficient fuel wise.

People are still operating them because they need that performance or they’re getting them on really cheap leases.

[Stedman]

Baby Shark doo doo doo doo said:

Loved their design

It has something about it that remind me of the FW17 and FW18 from 1995 and 1996

[MitchT]

First plane I ever flew on was a Britannia 757 - MAN to NAP. Always had a lot of affection for 757s.

[and31]

Britannia!!
That takes me back-first airline I ever flew with when I was a child-737’s from Luton,I can remember they had names on the aircraft,one was “sir Barnes Wallace” and the other was “Robert Falcon Scott”
It would have been 1986/87 -flying then seemed like a treat,not an ordeal as it is now!!
Really surprised myself remembering the names of the planes lol

[ukaskew]

djc206 said:

Operating for Norwegian airlines long haul. Callsign Rednose. We’ve had A340-300’s, B777’s and I think some A330-200’s if memory serves.

A bit OT but why does it seem Norwegian are particularly badly affected by grounded planes, just unlucky with the make up of their fleet? I know they've had hundreds of complaints about the NYC route, huge delays and sub standard replacement charter jets a frequent occurrence.

When I flew out of Gran Canaria recently they had a line of planes down towards the end of the runway with engine covers on.

[anonymous-user]

ukaskew said:

A bit OT but why does it seem Norwegian are particularly badly affected by grounded planes, just unlucky with the make up of their fleet? I know they've had hundreds of complaints about the NYC route, huge delays and sub standard replacement charter jets a frequent occurrence.

When I flew out of Gran Canaria recently they had a line of planes down towards the end of the runway with engine covers on.

The had 787s with rolls Royce engines that got grounded with fatigue. The airlines with 787s and General Electric engines were OK. Then they had the 737max grounded too.

Just bad luck really.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

and31 said:

Britannia!!

It would have been 1986/87 -flying then seemed like a treat,not an ordeal as it is now!!

It was the same for me apart from flying Air Europa in the mid 80s. Gatwick to
Orlando with a stop off at Bangor air base to refuel on a 757. Even as an 8 year old I was thinking “crap there’s no space for my legs”. Although it was fantastic to see the US military hardware on the tarmac, plus the F16 escort at one point (I assume we were refuelling ). Plus the bone shakers that DanAir used, the DC10 of British Caledonian was another rough one from memory.

Apart from that it was always pleasant with a better clientele than you get today. Many airlines are no more than a flying MegaBus nowadays to move the underclasses from the UK to the likes of Benidorm friend of ours is a stewardess on the Newcastle- Ibiza route and cannot wait to get out of regional airlines.