New BA service for London City - JFK

[TSR2]

Interesting approach

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8281156.stm

[Prop Jockey]

That A318 is a genius piece of kit. Airbus added a new 'Law' to the flight dynamics that gets enabled on steeper approaches like city - I can't remember the details but it does do something funky like auto-deploy the spoilers before the aircraft is on the ground amongst other things. Good luck to em - its enterprising thats for sure !

Cheers

Rich

[Garry Russell]

Lufthanss was doing this with 737...don't know if they still do.

It's not a new idea.


Garry

[markw]

As I've posted elsewhere - a new jet Transatlantic service seating about 30 in luxury that makes a refeulling stop in Shannon. There's progress.

What with Dame Vera in the charts and Cliff and the Shads on tour you could almost be back in the 1950s.

[speedbird591]

As I've posted elsewhere - a new jet Transatlantic service seating about 30 in luxury that makes a refeulling stop in Shannon. There's progress.

What with Dame Vera in the charts and Cliff and the Shads on tour you could almost be back in the 1950s.

Well. not quite! You're travelling from the city with a 30 minute check-in time - saving hours over Heathrow. During the outboard refuelling stop the passengers pre-clear US immigration and customs so you arrive in JFK as an internal flight. Also you don't have to stop again at Gander and the return flight is non-stop back to the city. I think it would appeal to quite a few time-strapped executives. At £5,000 a time I don't think there'll be many leisure travellers!

Ian

[DispatchDragon]

Not a new idea at all Garry -- Transmeridian did it with an A320 fitted out with 50 sleeper seats from Stuttgart to Pontiac on behalf of Daimler == twelve years ago -- Both Lufthansa and Condor turned the contract down as being "Not economically feasiable" -- after TMA operated the service for a year with 98% dispatch reliability on the bus -- They were only too happy
to jump on board..


Leif

[WhisperJet]

Well let's see. It's got some aspects:
The idea of hopping out of LCY isn't too bad.
Saves transfer time and ensures faster check-in.
Why not?

Cheers from Vienna,

Nick

[speedbird591]

A few more facts about this service from a report in BA News about the inaugural service. Check in time at LCY is only 15 minutes before departure. Chock to chock time at Shannon was 46 minutes and time from aircraft to kerb in JFK is 6 minutes! There's full internet and mobile phone texting access in-flight.

The menu is British 'gutsy' provided by 'Roast' a restaurant based in Borough - London's oldest market. Much of the food is sourced from stallholders in the market and will change seasonally. Here's the current menu: Welsh Carmarthen ham with Cox's apple potato salad and pea shoots, Dedham Vale Farm fillet of beef, British corn-fed chicken and Inverawe smoked salmon and prawns. Afternoon tea is sandwiches and warm scones with English preserves and Cornish clotted cream.

The captain was an ex 747-400 pilot and reckoned that stepping out of the flight deck felt exactly the same as it's just like the upper deck cabin. When I win the lottery I'll take you all on a trip to New York!

Well, perhaps not all of you ...

Ian

[DaveB]

There's full internet and mobile phone texting access in-flight.

Available at an additional cost or so I understand

Looking forward to getting the call for LCY Ian. I'll need a little notice though as my passport expired in 1993

ATB

DaveB

[Fodda]

What! No vegetarian option? PAH...