Originally Posted by
Trinity 09L
Druk and Whbm
Thanks fir your replies, it did not help passengers being bussed to a stand and then introduced to a ANZ aircraft for a trip to the USA. At least my informant has been told it’s Finnair, when he promotes BA as a businessman.
I remember that happening as well, including the bussing to a remote stand (even then). In fact there was an FA at the foot of the DC-10 steps whose principal task seemed to assure passengers that this was the BA flight to LAX. This was despite using those old steps which had a display of flight number and destination on a pole attached to them. Of course, to the airline, there was nothing to say. It was a BA flight, not a code share, on the BA AOC, wholly staffed by BA crew. The paint scheme was incidental. The current arrangements are different.
The ANZ aircraft previously laid over at LAX from Auckland during the afternoon/evening, and as the round trip LAX-LHR-LAX takes just over 24 hours, the eastbound aircraft set off about 2 hours before the westbound one arrived; it was thus a different aircraft every day so they were not badged up as such. It was also the longest sector BA operated at the time, when they still only had the original -100 series 747s. The US carriers operated them at the extremes, but for BA procedures LAX was fractionally too far until the -200 747s came along, when this was their first route.