Britannia BY085A LGW - Las Palmas
 

My sister and her family flew out this morning with Brits from LGW. I have a couple of questions for any Brit pilots out there!

1. Is the usual equipment a 757 or 767?

2. As the flight time is about 4 hours and presumably fast turnarounds are not an issue, do crews stopover for the night or is it straight back to Blighty?

Thanks!:ok:

Can't answer 1. I'm afraid.

2. Very def straight back to UK unfortunately. The most restrictive flight duty period is for a very late / very early report. Even with that, a 2 sector day the flight crew can do 10 hrs 15 mins from report to chocks on back home.

1 hour report, 2 * 4 hours sectors (not normally that long LGW-LPA) and a 1 hour turnaround is just inside this. Reporting at more respectable times of day this is easily acheiveable.

1) Normal equipment is a 757-200 up to 28th July then a 767-300 for the rest of the season (to 27th October). So today's flight should have been a 763.

2) As expedite said, definately straight back to the UK. I believe BY pilots even do the likes of LGW-SSH-LGW in a single duty (with an 12:00ish report and 01:00 return) :(

UK-Cyprus-UK is also a single duty.

They may have a third (relief) pilot or even a whole second crew for the SSH runs though... still cheaper than a hotel room for the entire season in Egypt.

Hi Ray Ban,

Yes, our fleet of aircraft include the 757-200, 767-200 and the 767-300. I can only answer with regards to MAN, but the 767-300 normally operates to LPA, 328 and 315 configuration.

We can operate up tp 13 and 1/4 hours a day - our longest day out is to Luxor, Egypt and back - 5 and 1/2 hours each way flight time so a LPA is a nice duty compared to that !!!!!

Hope this answers your queries!

BYLady x