Jenkins regarding your point re the RJ 100's yeah they were Cityflyer. However, Cityflyer did get bought by BA for 70 million , the 1st franchise then Subsidiary and the one that made the most profit . Since the buyout that the staff were balloted on which merged with BA Eurogatwick to form BA Eurofleet yes Mainline , where the RJ 100's that entered Mainline and then reallocated to the Regions,

AA is correct and he is not on his own. All of BA need to awake to the realities ?

We now have a management decree that we are not to refer to BACON as BACON!!
What sort of management publish such edicts that will obviously promote further use of such abbreviation? Simple - BACON management (yes they are simple). :ugh:

So that makes the 146/RJ fleet "Smokey Bacon".

Most companies do a sanity check along the lines of "what will the new name be abbreviated to ?". This may be why there is no BOLsover & LOXley Building Society. The marketing fluffies must be having too much nutmeg on their lattes.

Oh well, out of the frying pan........

And on a similar note, next time you bump into someone who speaks Spanish as a first langauge, be sure to ask them why the Mitsubishi Pajero had to be called the Mitsubishi Shogun in Hispanic countries... :mad:

*j*

Muppetry has occured.

A recent experience has convinced me that the whole BACON thing is not sustainable.
I recently flew Manchester - Frankfurt return in C Class both ways.
On the outbound leg, I flew on a EMB145 with a total of 14 passengers on board (including me). The flight although quite pleasant, arrived rather late, for no apparent reason, just late.

On the return leg I flew in a LH A321 - a proper plane - sorry but it is IMHO.
The back end was near as damn it full and there were 23 passengers in the C Class cabin which is considerably more than the entire uplift of the BACON flight. On top of that, the experience was a true pleasure (but why always cheese with everything LH?) and we arrived exactly on schedule.
People do tend to vote with their feet.