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Channex getting second 733QC this week?

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Old 2nd Aug 2001, 13:46
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Question Channex getting second 733QC this week?

Can anyone confirm?
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According to their website, they don't have any 73s...'bout time they updated it!web page
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yep, a little bit strange but they not updating their website (nevertheless they removed Tony Carder contacts from site in two weeks after he moved to Atlas!). they operating one 733QC at the moment but heard somewhere they expecting arrival of second aircraft later this week.
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Channex are operating 1 737 330 QC TF ELP and the second TF ELR has just completed a check with FLS at DUB and should be in the spray shop as I type.
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Hey guys, if you look at the parent company Web Site, WWW.dartgroup.co.uk there is news of the 737s, the full Chairman's Statement and the Review of Operations. Hope this helps.
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Apparently the aircraft is in BOH getting it's new paint job as we type...
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:o If Channex 733's are QC, do they operate flts with SLF?? If so, do they have their own hosties or are they Icelandic Just curious
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Plan is to bring them on to British register as soon as approval from SRG is achieved, according to the ERG.

I seem to remember in the distant past that the CAA had a problem with the QC ? Can anyone help ?
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Channex have got their own hosties and what a good bunch they have. The aim is to have their own aoc at the end of the year!
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Channex have their own hosties who have been trained to the Icelandic AOC that the aircraft operate under. ("Them gals are jus' so pretty"! ) There are a few guys as well. I've seen the aircraft going in and out of STN on a regular basis, not just on the mail flights. Apparently they've been bailing Go out on a few occasions and they've been getting excellent reviews!

I heard that the CAA have a few problems with the freight door? (That's not written in stone though, just what I heard....)
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second 737-300Qc arrived earlier today with all the spotter population of BOH at the end of the R/W to welcome it in!! it will be in the spray shop during the week and will depart for STN to begin it's pax/frt life with Channex early next week.
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I hear the A300's are up for sale with a contract about to be lost.
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MSF,
contracts flown by Channex A300's are about to have a slight shuffle, but none lost. As for A/C for sale, thinks you might have the wrong company!
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Skybabster777 I think you may be just a little biased about the Channex cabin crew but you are right a top notch bunch of girls and boys to work with.

The only thing preventing the aircraft from being UK registered is the lack of CAA certification for the door, this is being worked on. As soon as we can we will be UK registered.
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MSF, why would Channex put an A300 up for sale if they are all under contract for the next 12 months making money?
Perhaps you should be looking at some other operator?
As for the Loadies now pushing trollies, I hear that the girlie punters just can't get enough of MM!!!!!lucky devil
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Time to break my silence...

Where did you hear that vicious rumor freightdoggydog? Was it during morning prayers or from AS?
The SLF must have liked the L188 tea, no complaints so far. At least I serve it hot and I now know how to stir with a spoon...

It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it. You've seen how good the view is...

Seriously, I for one am glad that the company didn't give us the push, unlike some freight operators would have. It's better than being in the "give us a job" queue.

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Versatile lot aren't we!
I suppose that's what happens when you're shoved out on the ramp in the middle of the night when everyone else is tucked up in bed.
"Any problems, ask the Loadmaster/dispatcher/dangerous goods expert/mathematician/agony aunt/company representative....."
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Is the new 737 EFIS or clockwork at the front ?

Maxpowerflap78 !
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Both aircraft are EFIS equipped but with the old style engine instruments, they are a matched pair down the production line together and operated by Lufthansa from new.

Not quite as swept up as your 800's but working well and going places we would never have dreamed about in the hydraulic dinosaur.
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MM, a little Irish lassie leaves cryptic comments that would make me blush.Have to say if I was 10 years younger............
Ps Top Trolley would be a good handle.
(beware those that can ping com ports)
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