GBALU53

Most of us would see them as Atlantic Airlines Electras.
With the fleet down to four airframes flying when is the expected date for them to be withdrawn??
I understand the Bournmouth contract for the Channel Islands is due up shortly which is operated by the Electra,will we see a change on this as the aircraft does very little flying and a lot of sitting around,day time at Jersey during the week and night time and weekends at Bournmouth.
It is a great sound every week day morning at 0530 local time as an alarm clock for the airport neighbours

dixi188

I was talking to an Atlantic guy last night and he said they had 5 A/C still on the books although 2 were on C check at the moment. He thought the 2 C check A/C would run to at least 2012.
Also the BOH A/C was doing EDI mail as well as CI at the moment due to Titan being short of A/C.
Hope this helps.

Atlantic_Conveyor

Rumour has it that the Electra's are going to be sold, if the price is right. Customer is likely to be Canadian, for firebombing. The existing aircraft are undergoing or about to undergo C checks. Let's see what happens this time round. Will it be the points based redundancy game like last Xmas? This would probably be a good time for Electra pilots to trace their family tree. Who knows, maybe you can find a distant link between yourself and the FOD; this should give you a shot at saving your job.....fail that, a good time to join BALPA perhaps!

GBALU53

At the moment the service down to Jersey is being operated by a Boeing 737 300 freighter.

This could be due to the Electra being taken off to cover an Electra on a heavy check.

This is not the first time a Boeing 737 has been brought in, a similar thing was done early last year.

Morrihell

One (FIZU) currently covering for a Titan B462 on the Bristol-Edinburgh mail run.

MH

yukonjack

"This would probably be a good time for Electra pilots to trace their family tree. Who knows, maybe you can find a distant link between yourself and the FOD; this should give you a shot at saving your job.....fail that, a good time to join BALPA perhaps!"

It`ll take more than that.

However, last time the Snake compiled his hitlist, the Company cr*pped itself when Balpa were asked to represent one of his targets.
Needless to say, the guy kept his job.

Council Van

A friend of a friend told me that Atlantic would need a load more ATP size airframes from next spring for an enlarged post office contract? Now should I have taken that job I was offered on the ATP when times were still good?

I would be surprised if BALPA will do much for any crew who are facing redundancy. Whilst getting the chop I found them to be of no use to me what so ever!

BALPA will now be concentrating on the poor dears at BA, making sure they are protected in the merger and wondering how they can extract a large amount of Euro’s out of the Iberian pilots. Any one for a nice new BALPA office in Madrid?

despegue

The IB pilots have an established union themselves, SEPLA, and all IB pilots are members.
No need for BALPA!

Council Van

Sorry that was my attempt at sarcasm. I have secured myself another position but would still quite like an opportunity to fly the ATP. As for BALPA, thanks but no thanks, I will keep my 1% a month in the future.

Is their any truth in the requirement for more aircraft for the post office?

bobward

Using Electras for post office work?
Does this finally mean the end for the country post offices then?


Apologies for the sarcasm - my wife worked for the post Office, until the branch was shut down following extensive (not!) customer consultations.....