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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Pencefn (talk | contribs) at 10:45, 4 November 2006 (Comment on G-BRYZ type). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Move to BA Connect

This is the name of the airline as of today and therefor it makes sense to rename the article. However because somebody was over keen before I cannot do a simple page move. Thanks/wangi 09:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can see no objection, but please leave a redirect. --GW_Simulations 19:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • I've just changed my mind. British Airways Connect would be more in line with naming conventions on the subject. I still agree with a move, in principle, though. --GW_Simulations 20:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's not called British Airways Connect though, it is actually going to be called BA Connect, with the BA officially being meaningless. Aircraft and merchandise will all display BA Connect (rather than the previous 'British Airways'), and the company itself refers to it as BA Connect. I favour the rename/move. --Ayrshire--77 20:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Indeed, it's BA Connect. Anyone over on the Airlines or Airports WikiProjects that's an admin and could just do the move? wangi 20:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to CambridgeBayWeather it's now been moved/wangi 14:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Past Regional Operations of British Airways

This appears to be more complex that just calling is British Airways Regional as prior to the forming of BACX is was not refered to as such, rather reference was made to British Airways Manchester, British Airways Birmingham and British Airways Scotland.

When Loganair moved away from its association from British Midland and joined up with Manx Airlines as part of the British Regional Airlines (partly owned by Michael Bishop - CEO of British Midland), British Airways Scotland (and its ATPs named after Scottish glens) were part of the BA Scotland fleet. However these ATPs were dispensed with and a new series registered in the G-MANx series with Shorts 360 and Jetstream J31 and Jetstream J41 formed the new setup. The first five Embraer ERJ-145EU in the UK then joined the fleet at the newly opened Southampton based. For example the previous Loganair Jetstream 41 based at Glasgow for the Southampton route (in 1994)was replaced with a Southampton based ERJ145 (by 1998). It is this base which BA Connect announced the closure of on 26 July 2006.

At some point BA Manchester incorporated British Airtour Boeing 737-200 aircraft (early 1990's) possibly coinciding with the withdrawal of the BAC1-11 from the BA fleet. By the time BA Scotland was incorporated into BRAL, BA Manchester started to replace its Boeing 737-200 with 737-500 (in the G-GFFx series). THese subsequently were swapped with the BAe146 of Cityflyer when BACX was formed.

The 737-200 fleet of BA Birmingham were replaced with Airbus 319. As part of the re-organisation of the BA fleet associated with the formation of BACX, the Airbus 319 fleet (G-EUPx series) went to LHR, the Boeing 737-436 at LHR (G-DOCx series) went to LGW to join the others already there. The BAe146 at LGW then went to BACX to BHX and MAN. The "non-standard" Boeing 737-400 series (previous with Dan-Air) were withdrawn subsequently from BA service.

Pencefn 18:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

G-BRYZ

Several on-line lists are showing G-BRYZ (c/n 464) as a DH8-202. It is in fact a DH8-Q311. I have flown on it several times and observed it on other occaisions. It is of -300 series length. the -200 series has a shorter fuselage. As a final check I have looked at the UK CAA registration database G-INFO and this show the aircraft as a -311 -- Stewart 10:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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