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Hardly anybody travels from Trafalgar Square to Edinburgh Castle any more than they travel from Heathrow Airport to Edinburgh Airport. They travel from somewhere to somewhere and comparing city centre to city centre times is no more valuable than airport to airport. Not everybody has homes and...

The friends son must have had enough previous experience on airliners to qualify for that. Pilots straight out of flying school have to do a number of take offs and landings in the actual aircraft before flying passengers which is what is happening above.

If you fly BA you have free access to Pressreader and all its titles when you fly. There's a link in the preflight email. https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/entertainment/on-board-digital-reading

They are solely for freight. Its also untrue that 380s are bad for cargo. They have plenty of space unless you put 650 seats in them and then fill all of them. They also have 3 separate climate controlled holds (no other BA aircraft has this) which are great for high value perishable cargo...

The Woking to Basingstoke line hasn't had more than 33% of its former evening services since the beginning of lockdown 1. The railway has become irrelevant for leisure travel in these parts as a result. Loadings unsurprisingly reflect this. Commuting vastly reduced and leisure travelers forced...

There are no BA Embraers operating out of Heathrow.

But whichever way you cut it the XLR can do around 4700nm even into wind. An A321 NEO can fly a 1500nm sector into a 50kt headwind and burn about 7500kg for the sector. An A321-XLR can take (full) 32t of fuel and still leave room for a 20t payload, which is plenty in a long haul config. Unless...

Hangon. The standard A321 NEO has a range of 7400km/4000nm. The A321-XLR is 8700km/4700nm (5400 Statute Miles if preferred). A321 XLR has a 101t MTOW. Maximum fuel is 32t and the aircraft weighs 49t. That leaves a payload of around 20t at max range. That's plenty in a long haul config with 160...

On the 747 Boeing installed a cup holder right by where you put your foot getting in and out of the seat, so not perfect. Airbus is pretty good.

Some interesting theories, but, some highly unlikely scenarios. In the unlikely event of a preplanned emergency landing you will get a further emergency brief with more details. It is procedure and it is mandated. Its just rare because preplanned emergencies don't happen very often. This isn't...

Do the 710s operate on sundays?

Can anyone recommend any forward facing (ex pad) seats that don’t have a window pillar? Thanks

Paddington entirely closed all morning apparently.

I'm seeing 4 per hour for both Farnborough and Fleet.

Having been buying tickets from my local station (Fleet) to Stoke on Trent recently I have become curious about the availability or otherwise of ADV tickets. Sometimes I can get extremely low priced ADV tickets from Fleet to Stoke via Euston. Fairly frequently all that is offered is relatively...

There's some stuff in the local press about improved service to Camberley etc today. Some news is creeping out. http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/new-south-western-railway-franchise-13139328

Sounds like a blind I have from the late 80s I bought at collectors corner. I assumed it was a standard Tyseley DMU blind. It basically has all the Birmingham suburban destinations plus places further afield that were probably irregularly visited but not unheard of when Tyseley was the major...

It really isn't about leases. BAs aircraft (and I assume the other majors) are mostly mortgaged not leased so it's not even a factor. That's why they are generally kept until retirement. No gain in blue either, it's the same basic livery since Utopia in the late 90s.

I passed 2 blue SWT coaches on the M25 last night in convoy. So it wasn't just the DMSO.

8 x 455 on a Reading train today which was a bit of a surprise. Had to get off at Richmond for a child loo break!