BA Subcharter Today (BA207)

[Sonic Cruiser]

I noticed today that BA seemed to have subchartered an old 747-200 from somewhere to operate the 207 service.

Just wonderwing why BA would need to subcharter when they have about 50 747-400s and loads of 777 which would be able to operate a normal scheduled service?
Was it the knock on from the weekends chaos??

[bunnygirl]

They're EXTREMELY short of crew at the moment, both on worldwide and Eurofleet,

Last week a LHR-CAI-LHR was subbed to Air Atlanta, again due to crew shortages....hopefuly they will start to recruit soon..strikes etc permitting!

[wobblyprop]

Bunnygirl,

Are they short of cabin crew, pilots or both?

Thanks

[cirrus01]

Thought the answer would be to look after the CC that they have already got........treat them a bit better and they probably won't have to take a average 15 days sickness a year ........:yuk: :yuk:

[HZ123]

If you combine this with what else is going on at BA it is a miracle that they make any monies. Quite right that there seems to be more static a/c on the LHR eng base than I can recall. Might it not be better to just lease in cabin crew having duly licensed them for a period.