BMA/BM Baby Dc9 Seats

[much2much]

Does any one remember
;or know what the seating capacity of the baby dc9 was at BM
, on,AA,AB.AC

[corsaman]

If I remember correctly, 85 seats c1990-1993, and 80 thereafter, when the two-class cabin increased the handluggage and galley space required. A row of seats was removed and extra stowages incorporated, at the rear I think. Hope this helps!

[much2much]

thanks i left bma before in the late80,s but i guess the 1990 figure holds true ,always remember the 32 config but a recent debate left us short on memory,old age or perhaps i caught it of this PC,it has the same trouble.thanks again

[Midland 331]

I seem to recall an extra row being added circa 1984, taking the pax number to 90. GLA/EDI certainly needed it for BD1/BD51

92 was the magic number on the 331, one on the jump seat, plus one elsewhere. I can't recall where.

rg

[handsfree]

After talking to an ex-FA and an ex-OPs man tonight, they came up with 90 and 83 respectively. However, the ex-FA did say the the coffee machine on the baby 9 was fabulous. She also said that the Finnish engineers that stopped at the Adelphi with them used to get totally plastered every night. (allegedly).

[DC10RealMan]

I do remember the "Pocket Rockets" Vertical speed indicator hitting the stops with a thud on departure from Liverpool to LHR. BD581 was I think the flight number.

[Midland 331]

...because DC9s on LPL were a commercial disaster.

I used to monitor the loads as reported on the company frequency, and grimaced.

[DCDriver]

.... which is why I never ever called ops!:):)

[Midland 331]

This was the second go with the "9" on Liverpool, the other being the late 1970s, IIRC.

Ops were always copied on the departure telex anyway, so shouting out the loads always seemed a bit indiscreet to me.

[Little Blue]

Yeah, pretty sure it was 85 seats, with 110 on the stretch 9.
I remember once checking in an EMA-JER, back in the old manual check-in days.
I had my seat plan behind me, all b/cards placed nicely in the slots.
Checked the flight in, wondered why I had about 30 seats left at the end when I was told it was full, went thru' to to the gate to board the flight and encountered chaos on board with pax trying to find seat rows that didn't exist !!
I'd checked the flight in on a stretch 9 and it was on the baby 9 !
The DM, Mo Smith, walked up to me and said,.....'You are a twit' or something very similar !!!!
Great a/c and then they replaced em with the fokkers !!
Fools...
:ugh:

[Midland 331]

The old "T-card" check-in system was primitive but effective. Teesside ladies could check someone in inside 30 seconds. Then came DCS....

I'm still pretty sure that the "nines" had an extra row stuck in when I was there, taking them to 90.

On the subject of checking in for the wrong type, Midland handled Dan Air at Teesside, and once assigned pax for a B11 NCL-MME-AMS, to discover on the DEP message from NCL that it was a 146. A scrum on board ensued at 0715.

[rog747]

when i joined at LHR in 1977 the dc-9-15 had 85 seats,

some years later we put 90 in...i think yes when gla/edi/bfs started.

i think later after i left in 1985 it reverted to 85y ?
diamond service and all that lol

we often had 87 or 92 on board on the bd332 or 338/340
one on flight deck j/s and one on the little extra j/s in front of tail cone door exit...

the pilots loved someone on the flt deck j/s,
had to be pretty with big t***!

[much2much]

never had the luck of any one that shape on the jump seat,did have a unaccompanied minor on his way home at christmas,from H.K, projectile vomit perfectly at the point of touch down,always felt there should have been Sim training for such events ,to keep one hand on yoke apply reverse ,and open window,a bit tricky.:eek: