Emerald Airways

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 13 May 2006, 14:22

Good idea Chris. For anyone thats interested... theres a long debate on the future of Emerald on pprune, with all the ins and outs and financial jargon (and members competing to see who has the most experience in insolvency/debt/equity/venture captial etc etc) :roll: Not too much on the reasons for the AOC being pulled, though those have been covered here, with the exception perhaps of the personnel issues.

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 13 May 2006, 14:44

Chris Trott wrote:Haven't heard "Pig" for a 737. I've only heard "Guppy".

I've heard pig but personally it's say more like a truck
phhhhtttttt verrmmmm phhhtttttt vermmmmmm

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 16 May 2006, 14:24

Back on topic, checking the thread at pprune, it seems hope of salvaging Emerald seems to have faded and most of the people on the forum who were Emerald employees have now received their redundancy notices.

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 16 May 2006, 15:52

Garry Russell wrote:A budgie is what we call a Budgeregard (Spelling?)

Garry

The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus, nicknamed budgie), the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus, is a small parrot belonging to the tribe Platycercinae, or broad-tailed parrots. Known for it's laidback attitude and tendency to say "You'll be right, by crikey" to potential predators.

AndyG

migman29 · Post by **migman29** » 16 May 2006, 19:46

Chris Trott wrote:
TobyVickers wrote:Budgie is the nickname for the Avro/HS/BAe 748 airrcaft, like "pig" for a B737-200 or "Albert" for a Hercules etc
Haven't heard "Pig" for a 737. I've only heard "Guppy".

'Whale' for the 747, 'Pocket Rocket' for the 727 Advanced models, 'Diesel-8' for the DC-8, 'Douglasaurus Rex' for the DC-10, and a few others that shouldn't be mentioned in a public forum....

SLUF,BUFF and STOOF but to name a few.

.

Heard a 737 captain talking to Manc.ATC a few years back.
ATC must have heard him or his right seater say something wasn't right.
They came right back and asked if he wanted to call an emergency.
He said no everything was OK,it's just that they were flying the fleet pig
that night

:gigle: :gigle:

Mark :-({|=

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 16 May 2006, 20:01

Guys, we have a thread for this in E&Ss!!

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 16 May 2006, 20:20

Chris Trott wrote:Anyway, moved the "Aircraft Nicknames" discussion to a topic in E&S so not to get fried for taking yet another topic, off-topic.

Thank you for reading the posts.... :roll:

Chris558 · Post by **Chris558** » 21 May 2006, 00:35

Is it likely that Emerald won't be resurrected, and in that case, I wonder what will happen to the 748s?

People like our Jonesey who hang around Liverpool Airport watching 'Budgies', must be getting withdrawal symptons! :sad:

Does this mean we have no 748s flying to the UK at the mo? (apart from XW750)

Post by **Garry Russell** » 21 May 2006, 02:09

Hi Kevin

I don't know if any 748's are flying in the UK apart from XW750 I can't think of one. But from what I can remember XW750 is about finished.

I read recently it was being retired about June but I can't say if that was fact or rumour.

It that is the date then it may already have stopped aprt from the odd quicky.

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 02 Jul 2006, 17:04

Anyone know whats happened to Emerald and its fleet? Havent heard anything for ages now. Was half hoping someone might acquire an out-of-hours budgie and stick it in a museum.