British Airways

[ChurchFenton]

Flightradar24 currently showing tomorrow morning's BA1346/47 as being on A320 G-EUUY.

 

[Bigman]

..and still showing that this morning.

 

[lbaspotter]

Flightradar24 currently showing tomorrow morning's BA1346/47 as being on A320 G-EUUY.

Let's see if it turns up!

 

[lbaspotter]

British Airways have started retiring the Airbus A319 fleet today, G-EUPV was flown from London Heathrow to St Athan.

For info she last visited Leeds operating the London Heathrow shuttle rotation SHT1340/21Z on September 29th 2018.

 

[lbaspotter]

2019?......

Typo, Now corrected. Been a long day today....

 

[michael]

According to airfleets.net G EUPV has been with BA it's entire life and is only 17.8 years old, seems young to be retired although I suppose it'll all be short rotations with multiple take offs and landings per day. Any idea what the 319's are going to be replaced with?
Still, could be a good buy for somebody?

 

[lbaspotter]

19/20+ LHR based Airbus A319's are to be retired by November 2020. These short haul aircraft will be replaced by the brand new Airbus A320Neo's.

Might be worth watching out for the ex bmi aircraft as Airbus A320s G-MIDO & G-MIDS have moved from summer Gatwick ops back to Heathrow this week.

 

[KARFA]

According to airfleets.net G EUPV has been with BA it's entire life and is only 17.8 years old, seems young to be retired although I suppose it'll all be short rotations with multiple take offs and landings per day. Any idea what the 319's are going to be replaced with?
Still, could be a good buy for somebody?

They will be replaced by A320s. BA is not buying any new A319s (or I suppose to be pedantic IAG is not buying any A319s for BA). Everything is being "upgauged". Longer term the remaining LHR A319s will be retired and/or sent to LGW. All the new A320 neos and A321 neos are going to LHR. Not sure on exact timelines.

 

[tleeds]

A320 G-EUUY from the Terminal.

 

[imagineif]

Flew the shuttle to LHR last week on Tuesday and returned Saturday with onward connection to ATH.

Got to fly on the 767 probably for the last time with BA so that was nice, the LBA leg was probably 70% loaded going and then I think full on the return with the business divider several rows back - also good news!

Service was very good, LBA legs mostly on time with friendly fun - Mixed fleet Cabin Crew.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I see BA are increasing Inverness to 16 x weekly and basing an aircraft there. Must be more viable than Leeds.

 

[lbaspotter]

I see BA are increasing Inverness to 16 x weekly and basing an aircraft there. Must be more viable than Leeds.

LHR-INV has got a good timed scheduled too for next summer with a night stopper, So early morning southbound departure & late northbound return. We all know the LHR-LBA service has being crying out for that type of schedule since day one of British Airways return!

Still its good to see we keep the slot sitting LBA-LHR service for a bit longer, what with the summer 2019 schedule now on sale (10x weekly = 1x daily Tue,Wed,Sat,Sun & 2x daily Mon,Thu, Fri)

 

[Finger66]

And if we get more 320s and 321s too we may get an increase in pax

 

[lbaspotter]

Here's the British Airways summer 2019 scheduled for the London Heathrow - Leeds/Bradford route that's recently published.

Sadly for us spotters the airlines Airbus A320's & Airbus A321's are a no show during summer season as all flights are showing being operated by the Airbus A319's as usual.

Monday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20
BA1344 = LHR 17:00 - LBA 18:05 / BA1345 = LBA 18:50 - LHR 20:05
Tueday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:15 - LHR 12:30
Wednesday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20
Thursday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20
BA1344 = LHR 15:50 - LBA 16:55 / BA1345 = LBA 17:30 - LHR 18:45
Friday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20
BA1344 = LHR 16:45 - LBA 17:50 / BA1345 = LBA 18:35 - LHR 19:50
Saturday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20
Sunday
BA1340 = LHR 09:20 - LBA 10:20 / BA1341 = LBA 11:05 - LHR 12:20

 

[Seasider]

I see BA are increasing Inverness to 16 x weekly and basing an aircraft there. Must be more viable than Leeds.

There is not as much competition with the train at INV. Get LNER to withdraw their service to Kings Cross and then see BA's reaction.

 

[Finger66]

The only thing LNER has going for it is it's centre to centre. It's overpriced, overcrowded and unreliable

 

[White Heather]

Also lets not forget, we are 196 miles from London here, whereas Inverness is around 500 miles. A big difference in miles and travel time on the train.

 

[KARFA]

I see BA are increasing Inverness to 16 x weekly and basing an aircraft there. Must be more viable than Leeds.

No APD helps quite a bit.

 

[Bigman]

Inverness only have 2 trains a day to London, one of which is the sleeper to Euston, so there is no competition really. I think it's fair to say that even allowing for the usual check-in times etc, flying knocks the stuffing out of a 7hr 52 min run on an LNER HST!!

 

[lbaspotter]

The was a good load on this mornings BA1347 LBA-LHR. I didn't see any spare seats. Flight took 50 mins on G-EUPZ and we had 2 loops around the Bovingdon Hold.