BA B787 UK Domestic 'tour' 08AUG
 

BA B787 will be busy tomorrow (THU 08 AUG) flying around northern parts of the UK, stopping in NCL then EDI. Promotional flying...

Water Cannon salutes should keep it cool in NCL and EDI ;)

Also doing a Fly by with a spitfire I believe over Rolls Royce Derby in the morning

BA B787 UK Domestic 'tour' 08AUG
 

I wouldn't exactly call a flight to NCL and then to EDI busy

Hardly a domestic tour is it. 2 airports in 2 different countries?

... trytofly and hooded ...

Grow up... :ugh:

For those of us OUTSIDE of London-town, its pretty rare for us to see any thing remotely interesting from BA - sorry London Airways, so when we are told that the 787 is doing a tour, ie flying out of Manston up over Derby to team up with a Spitfire for a spirited flyby of the RR plant before continuing to NCL, its not your average schedule. The aircraft then continues to EDI to collect a select group of customers, taking them around Scotland for an hour before returning to drop them off, then heading south to LHR.

North of the Watford Gap, thats a tour

Oh and by the way its not a seperate country until next year...:ok:

London-centric alive and well, I see :rolleyes:

Looking forward to seeing Dreamliner at EDI tomorrow..

Why can't it nip into BHX enroute to LHR?

Or MAN or LBA or GLA or any other BA outstation?:(

BA B787 UK Domestic 'tour' 08AUG
 

B787 is a regular visitor at GLA, just in Thomson colours

And would you want to be the one to brake the nice new plastic pig with a hard landing at LBA?

Not news at BHX - 787s are "old hat" now!

Rumour has it that the pilots brake the 787 most times they land it. :O

Plenty of room in the circuit at Teesside... :-)

Plus, I've got some Isopon and a fire extinguisher in my garage, and can be at the airfield in ten minutes.

@ematom

Yup you are correct

BAW787 a Boeing 787-8 did flypasts of EMA and Rolls-Royce Derby in company with the R-R spitfire (now repaired following its crash earlier this year) and the EMA based Jet Provost

BAW 787 at NCL
 

Hi All - Pic enclosed of G-ZBJA at NCL: Boeing 787: 38609 G-ZBJA British Airways Newcastle Airport | Flickr - Photo Sharing! It left at 13-14.

I did hear that BA had picked up the delivery slots that were due for Monarch. The registration certainly implies that this was the case.

BP

Wrong on the registration being linked to Monarch.

ZBJA is as close to 787 as BA could get the reg to look like.

No, that's just a coincidence. BA could easily have re-registered them if that had been the case.

Think about it. BA's first 777s were G-ZZZA/B/C/D/E (Z = 7, geddit?)

So, working on the principle that B = 8, it's not altogether surprising that their first 787s are G-ZBxx.

Don't ask me why there aren't G-ZBZx, though.

Really????

I've tried squinting, standing upside down and even tried viewing through a pint glass. BA have failed on their private registration similarity task! :ugh:

BA try to get their reg's to mean something.

G-ZBJ* tries to look like 787
G-ZZZ* tries to look like 777
G-BYG* tries to imply big
G-EU** for European (and mid haul) flights
G-VII* roman numerals for 7
G-XLE* tries to imply extra large

Can't remember what G-CIV* or G-BNW* stands for off the top of my head.