BA B772ERS News

[Gerald A]

Saturday 1st August

British Airways latest B772 G-YMMU landed at Cardiff at 09:54 from Everett as BAW9151. Expect it to be here, outside, for a couple of months.
G-YMMS departed yesterday to Heathrow and G-YMMT is still there.

[Matt D]

... and they are still planning to introduce their two 32 seat A318 full business class service from London City to New York in the coming months.

Westbound it will have a fuel stop in Shannon, Ireland during which time pax will clear US immigration and customs so they can bypass passport control on arrival at JFK.

I did hear that the BA A318s will be modified to get an extra flap setting for the 5.5 degree glideslope and 1500m runway at EGLC. Elsewhere I have heard the speed on the 5.5 degree GS will be managed by a change to the control laws with automatic spoiler deployment when the gear comes down until the flare.

Matt

[Matt D]

This A318 business class only services starts today using callsign Speedbird 1, the old concorde callsign.

[Mike W]

Originally Posted by Matt D

This A318 business class only services starts today using callsign Speedbird 1, the old concorde callsign.

Because they've kind of the same right... 318/Concorde

I know, I know. it's the class thing