PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Silverjet 2 - The Phoenix?
View Single Post
Old 11th Jun 2008, 18:51
  #47 (permalink)  
marlowe
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: where ever i wake up!!!!
Posts: 608
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The thing is though Tristar, the guys down at canary wharf want to fly from LCY they dont want to go to a regional airport ie. Luton to travel on an aircraft that was never designed to do what SJ want it to do . You can paint an old 767 up in a fancy paint job and make the interior fancy but it doesnt disguise the fact that the airframes have some miles on them !!!! The 318s that BA are getting are brand spanking new and are being kitted out to do the job they are intended to do from the start , i am not knocking Silverjet and the product that they are trying to deliver, but maybe smaller new airframes are the way to go when trying to deliver this high end product and not just converting a large old aircraft that was designed to do a different job.
marlowe is offline