Originally Posted by
Akrotiri bad boy
Shetland Isles BN2 Islander just passed over Akro Towers in N Yorks heading south east. I presume it's heading down south for scheduled maintenance. I know there's an BN approved maintenance facility at Cumbernauld, surely that would be more cost effective?
Its stablemate was at Leeds, presumably also on scheduled maintenance, for about six weeks at the beginning of the year.
Where that amount of work is concerned, I suspect that other considerations outweigh the cost of an extra couple of hundred miles positioning.