G-BNLY [Landor-liveried B744] Stuck in LAS
Jun 7, 2019, 4:09 pm
#16
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Jun 7, 2019, 4:13 pm
#17
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No new plane is being built on an RB211, so there wouldn't be "spares". Additionally, the RBs are owned and managed by BA, contrary for instance to the Trent on the 380 or the GE90s which are owned by the engine manufacturers and leased to the airline on a power-by-the-hour basis. Having said that, even in that case it's usually BA who does the engine changes downroute, see an A380 down in JNB a few years ago.
Jun 7, 2019, 4:33 pm
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BA don’t have the option on their 747s to attach a 5th engine pod. It’s a customer option from Boeing (If I remember correctly) which BA didn’t see the need of having. Thus there is no way of fitting a 5th engine to the wing.
Jun 7, 2019, 4:36 pm
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Jun 8, 2019, 2:58 am
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Whilst the engine will need to ship main deck, if memory serves me correctly, these engines will fit into more freighters than just a 747.
Don't know if BA will charter their own flight or the nearest scheduled service which is likely to be a CV service to LAX.
Don't know if BA will charter their own flight or the nearest scheduled service which is likely to be a CV service to LAX.
Jun 8, 2019, 3:57 am
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BA has a good working relationship with Volga-Dnepr and Antonov Airlines. In the past they both were used to ship engines downroute, as in the case of the A380 in Jo'burg that needed a new engine or the A380 in Miami that needed a new cowling. I do remember seeing an Il-76 in West Base a few years ago but I believe those planes are now banned in most of the EU, unless they have newer engines (which I believe only the Russian Air Force has at present and I doubt that Mr Putin will lend us one).
Jun 8, 2019, 4:08 am
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BA has a good working relationship with Volga-Dnepr and Antonov Airlines. In the past they both were used to ship engines downroute, as in the case of the A380 in Jo'burg that needed a new engine or the A380 in Miami that needed a new cowling. I do remember seeing an Il-76 in West Base a few years ago but I believe those planes are now banned in most of the EU, unless they have newer engines (which I believe only the Russian Air Force has at present and I doubt that Mr Putin will lend us one).
There’ll be F1 cargo flights coming back from Canada on Tuesday I should think, so if it goes from EMA, they might be able to charter one of those if they haven’t found something by then
Jun 8, 2019, 4:41 am
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We get IL-76’s at EMA regularly, and there’s probably an AN124 in every other week. But there’s nothing scheduled to KLAS today. I would expect that if RR had a spare RB211, EMA would be the nearest airport to try and get it out of.
There’ll be F1 cargo flights coming back from Canada on Tuesday I should think, so if it goes from EMA, they might be able to charter one of those if they haven’t found something by then
Jun 8, 2019, 6:52 am
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I remember that day fondly! Shipping out a nose cowl for an A380 that crashed into an airbridge in MIA - I took a similar picture myself from the TBC car park.
In this instance I would be expecting them to get a concession for a 3 engine ferry back to LHR to be fitted with a replacement. If not it would be a heavy lifter leaving LHR to deliver the engine...
In this instance I would be expecting them to get a concession for a 3 engine ferry back to LHR to be fitted with a replacement. If not it would be a heavy lifter leaving LHR to deliver the engine...
Jun 8, 2019, 8:07 am
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I remember - it was 2012, or 2013 - a Mid-J having engine troubles out of Phoenix. Eventually they didn't do a ferry because, if I remember correctly, they didn't have enough lift - given the hot weather - to go all the way to LHR without stopping en route. Having never been to Vegas I don't know whether it's any different there.