Blair to set BA flight record
Mar 24, 2006, 12:35 pm
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Blair to set BA flight record
"U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair will break an aviation record", according to a Bloomberg article:
"Blair will fly 12,000 miles to Melbourne from Brussels today on a plane chartered from British Airways Plc, a 19-hour journey that will be the airline's longest ever non-stop flight."
"Blair will fly 12,000 miles to Melbourne from Brussels today on a plane chartered from British Airways Plc, a 19-hour journey that will be the airline's longest ever non-stop flight."
Mar 24, 2006, 1:39 pm
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There's a lot Tony could learn from on this board, and I'm not talking about just earning and spending BA Miles
Mar 24, 2006, 2:00 pm
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According to AFP, it's the same 777 that was modified for The Queen.
I don't know if it's been put back to the normal configuration, with Tony just slumming it in BA's F seat, but I assume so.
I don't know if it's been put back to the normal configuration, with Tony just slumming it in BA's F seat, but I assume so.
Mar 24, 2006, 2:00 pm
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I bet he doesn't end up with his plane being substituted with a EuroAtlantic Airways aircraft.
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Mar 24, 2006, 8:07 pm
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According to a posting on kiddiesarguingaboutairbusandboeing.net the aircraft is G-YMMO, the same one the Queen chartered to Oz and since it's return it hasn't done any other flights. Looks like it could still have the Royal First cabin....
Mar 25, 2006, 2:29 am
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Originally Posted by Fraser
According to a posting on kiddiesarguingaboutairbusandboeing.net the aircraft is G-YMMO, the same one the Queen chartered to Oz and since it's return it hasn't done any other flights. Looks like it could still have the Royal First cabin....
Originally Posted by ian001
According to AFP, it's the same 777 that was modified for The Queen.
I don't know if it's been put back to the normal configuration, with Tony just slumming it in BA's F seat, but I assume so.
I don't know if it's been put back to the normal configuration, with Tony just slumming it in BA's F seat, but I assume so.
Mar 25, 2006, 6:05 am
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Originally Posted by Fraser
According to a posting on kiddiesarguingaboutairbusandboeing.net the aircraft is G-YMMO, the same one the Queen chartered to Oz and since it's return it hasn't done any other flights. Looks like it could still have the Royal First cabin....
And as to the UK having it's own 'Air Force One' - couldn't agree more. Surely the RAF could use a few A340-500 type things for general transport (we've got to show our EU credentials!), and stick a pod in it for TB to relax in a bit of style.
Mar 25, 2006, 6:07 am
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Originally Posted by ba bob
Surely it must cost an absolute fortune to charter it for this flight! Any guesses on what this would come to? Its really about time the UK had an Air Force One type jet that would ferry our leaders around.
Mar 25, 2006, 6:51 am
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Originally Posted by phillipas
Say what you want about boeingarebetterthanairbus.net, but, as the link given by chatawy (and welcome to FT by the way) shows they've got some fantastic photo's
)PS. chatawy, did you take that photo? Looks like it is in the screening process....
Mar 25, 2006, 7:21 am
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Originally Posted by krug
Did anyone ever manage to get a look/describe this cabin layout?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=539785