I am sure it was Tuesday morning, The J41's weren't flying. Later on in the day a Saab was seen flying. Nobody seemed to know why.
With regards to the J41 ownership. The majority of the fleet were on lease to BA citiexpress. When BA decided to drop the fleet they were left with two choices. Park them up and pay the £6 mil a year lease payments with no return, or sub lease them to Eastern for £1 mil a year. They chose the Eastern deal. This was efectively a £5 mil a year subsidy to eastern. Since then I believe Eastern have purchased a few from the states, but most of the fleet are on lease. And i am also sure the £5 mil a year subsidy must be finished by now. hey have also taken on a simulator, I think it's the old Pan Am one from St Lewis.