PFM #tristar 500 ZD951 (ex-BA G-BFCD) #jaguar #XJ220

With the #A340 in the news, coincidently I found pics of Austrian Airlines 342 OE-LAG (one of 2 -200s) that I visited in Vienna in March 1995, shortly after del. I flew back to LHR on the other ('AH). Cirium shows both are still flying (with Mahan/ConViasa) cc Kurt Hofmann #avgeek

#WingFriday with some #A380 #FullFlapsFriday action to boot...

As Dave Calhoun talks about Boeing's '$50bn' next-gen airliner, it was nice to see the elegant 'NMA v1.0' whiz past the windows at @Cirium Towers LHR today... #B757 #avgeek

Good news for the retrojet #avgeeks : I understand that the British Airways BEA #A319 G-EUPJ is to be reactivated this summer - after being stored for the last 16 months in Madrid Cirium data

A Pearl 10X, a Trent 1000 and three RB211-524s: this 44-year-old ex-CX 747-200 (N787RR) demonstrating its multi-tasking talents! (Cirium data)

Some history and a Cirium data snapshot as British Airways (sort of) turns 50 today (at the time of the BOAC/BEA merger, the 'only thing they had in common was the English language!'): rb.gy/onw7pl
#avgeek #OnThisDay #B757

Imperial Airways 100

On 31st March 1924 Imperial Airways Ltd was registered
It was an amalgamation of 4 British airlines
Instone Air Line
Daimler Airway
Handley Page Transport
British Marine Air Navigation
Imperial operated until 1st April 1940 when it was amalgamated into BOAC.

Goodbye to all that! #OnThisDay in 1974 marked the end BOAC and BEA (at 23:59) and the formal transition to... British Airways #avgeek #VC10 #Trident #Negus

'Yet the consensus among top US airline and aerospace executives is that removal of its top three leaders is only the first part of... what needs to change in how [Boeing] does business'

Unusual visitor briefly at LHR today - a lesser-spotted commercial pax #B747 . This LH 747-8I is pictured departing 09R after a diversion enroute MIA-FRA - Cirium shows it is one of just 53 com pax 747s still in service (not sure when the last one visited LHR...) #avgeek

The All Nippon Airways Pokémon Eevee Jet NH #B777 -300ER (JA784A) brightened up LHR last week - pictured arriving on 27R on 14 March #avgeek

Inevitable changes at the top confirmed:
Boeing chief Calhoun to depart at end-2024 as Deal departs Commercial Airplanes
flightglobal.com/airframers/boe…

Great to see another Cirium On-Time Performance 'logo jet'... Many congrats avianca!

Grandes protagonistas para una gran celebración. Somos la aerolínea más puntual del mundo en 2023, según Cirium. ⏱️

¡No te vayas! Te emocionarás aún más al conocer nuestro nuevo livery. 📷

I honestly don't understand how Boeing can be claiming this Rate, data from Cirium records only 11 737 first flights in February and 7 to date in March, unless there are a huge number of aircraft sitting around at Renton waiting to fly this statement simply cannot be correct

As a boy, it was just a great fun way to go. Lydd - Le Touquet in about 30 minutes, 5 cars, 16 passengers, noisy, rough, exciting. An adventure, before the real adventure of 'map reading' Dad, flat out on empty French roads...

Remember when you could order a freighter with nose-loading capability?