Bye Bye Channex XI
 

On February the 1st 2006, I thought I had done my last Channex A300 loadsheet, how wrong can you be!

Produced it today for the crew of G-CEXI, which will depart Bournemouth tommorow for Istanbul (23/05/06) under a private flight number.

It will be crewed by,

Capt Pete (When I was at Heavylift) W~ls~n
Capt Mike (Lord Charles) S~lw~~d
and
Senior Flight Engineer Phil (Southend Mafia) H~~dgs~n

I Just want to say a big thank you to all the crews who I met over the years, and also for all the great times we spent drinking and fighting together. Keep in touch and I am sure our paths will cross again in this small world.

P.S Guess whose got the Newsapers to the Channel Islands this weekend?

Somethings just never change:ok:

It will be sad to see the last Green Fin go from BOH, also very strange to see XI without the Channex logo.

whos bought it then? Kuzu/MNG/ACT ??

who has the papers then?

Maybe bought by Two Sh*gs??

Did 'XI make It's departure?

No not yet she's still siting outside thwe Basco hangar !


XI finally departed BOH around 1500

XI
 

dogg,
loadsheet for a positioner? - couldn't Lord Charles work it out:p
Doing the papers this weekend? -did the B'stormer go sick again? Surprised I didn't get a shout!:ok:

Saw the STN based 73 this week, guess it won't be long before the green turns red. Feels odd, spent a lot of time seeing that green. [Not just in the early hours at CGN eh dogg!]

Amen!

C o' G

As an ex-Channex (Zantop)L188 & F27 crewmember I was in CGN as the operation was packing up, it was very strange sitting in the airport holiday inn bar with the channex crew (Phill was the FE) drinking a beer, even the barman was the same, it could have been 10 years ago when we would see three Electra's on the ramp.

I have fond memorys of all but the last six months of Channex and it was sad to see it all evaporating before my eyes but I am glad that I left when I did, I don't think that I would like Jet2 very much but I hope that I am wrong for the sake of the people that I worked with at Channex.

A and C...
 

No more please! You'll have me bawling!!:rolleyes:

I'm personally glad to see that very nearly everyone who left (voluntarily or otherwise) is in as good or even better shape than when they were there! Long may it continue for them and for those who might not be in such a fortunate position, I hope your luck changes soon!

IMHO Jet2 will never be comparable with Channex. Different times and different planes!:{

Now stop it! You've got me going again A and C!:bored:

To all those soon to be ex-Channel, from an ex F27 & A300 guy now having a great time in the left seat of the silver and red 737s at MAN, it was an honour to work and play with the lot of you, to a man. Jet2 is good, despite all the ****e you read on Pprune, and the future looks good for those of us who are not FE's, loadies or Bournemouth office staff. So thanks guys, it was a pleasure to know you all. If you can't work out who I am, the fact that I've got a mate called Denzil Pemberthy might be a clue. Cheers and good luck to you all.

I've just re-read that and it looks like I'm saying I'm all right jack and sod the rest of you .. I didn't mean that.. I just meant to wish you all the very best for the future..whatever it may hold.

Smudge you ol fec ker, howz Denzil do'in. He;s invited to the old house warming in August mate.

1st week "Up Noorth" for me and it is very very HARD work:ok: . Save for Shuperstar trying to blow up our Gaff by leaving the gas cooker on unlit, Goordan would of been proud.

Coming over to Manch week after next for 3 days with Shuper and Goordan, so we will pass our evenings away viewing your holiday snaps from Dubai!! Remember those flicks that you use to video under the beach towel as they played beach volleyball. Maverlooooous.

Ps your turn to empty the washing machine

FDD, PM me the details of the housewarming (although I guess it's already been warmed up) and I'll do my very best to be there. Hope to catch you in MAN.

J2 into BOH?
 

I keep hearing that you J2 jocks are soon going to be flying back into BOH from Manchester on your silver 73's. Head office is well fed up with driving BOH-LBA and reckon MAN is the easy way there. Any news from the ground??

The only rumour I've heard is that possibly one of the QCs may be BOH based to cover the mail operation.... apart from that, HQ with the exception of Engineering is all going to LBA !

ILS,

Haven't you gone Nuclear yet?

It's either that or back to building the G@yRobot!!!!!

Heard that it will only last a week though, shame.

Pre Season friendlies are now well into their stride, although the " run around the tarn to keep fit" is still a transfer nightmare.

Also an away match on Friday is eagerly awaited by the newest hot transfer

Smudge PM sent

FDD... those folks at Winfrith don't want me :(.....so I guess it's back to being a tech orfa unless somethin else turns up.
Best of luck with Manch and Leeds !

FDD round the tarn 1 ILS repeater job prospects 0!

Keep your chins up ILS someone will employ you!
Me and FDD kept our jobs just! Hope for you eh!!!!

Shag castle is great, shame the sofa wont go through the door! Measured by to loadies!!! Frightening!:ugh:

Anyone can walk around the moat at our castle shuper? What with your dodgy knee even legoman could catch your belly!

Its all that Jogging that goes on up in that car park that worries me. Theres me bashing the bible,trying to get the privates out on parade and all you can do is get your bearskin out.

ILS, no worries mate, just open the flux gates and let the borgs replicate. Reality is a dream anyway.

PS Shuper, perhaps we will have to blow the bl@ddy back doors off :D

should cause a Roar