Originally Posted by
tristar 500
Shaggy Sheep Driver, it was not BA who decided not to take the registration of G-BIKE.
We were told that Raleigh Industries had pre reserved it, for obvious reasons, so we had to miss it out.
Don't think they had much choice in missing it out - according to the CAA's G-INFO site it was first registered on 18th April 1980, so nearly 3 years ahead of the BA 757s arriving.
First BA one I saw in service was at MAN on 22nd Feb 1983 when G-BIKB was the first 757 to visit on a proving flight. Seemed astonishingly quiet at the time, though now seems noisy compared to the 787.