Manchester of course. Everybody knows it is always raining and you need de-icing until the end of June at least.

Why in God's name would Air Scandic even think about using L-1011s?

The thing runs out of fuel after 5½ hours with a full payload whereas the DC-10-30 can always do London to Los Angeles with a full load (and even manage a reduced thrust take-off).

Nobody in their right mind would use L-1011s unless their only concern is to have a very comfortable crew transport and have no interest in economics.

A300s are leaving at the beginning of Nov. D checks are required and there is still the problem with training and the sim. They seem to know their time is up as currently suffering a lot of technical problems.
Myt DC10-30 is apparently coming Scandics way with current crews being retrained plus I believe at some stage a small amount of external recruitment. The amount of which will depend on when and if a second aircraft arrives.
Rumours are also floating around that Scandic will fly its own B757s next year. This year the wet leased 75s have been doing a lot of flying so having their own would seem to make sense. If this does happen, to me it would be more sensible to have 767s instead of the DC10 because of commonality of types and type rating and therefore reduced costs etc etc. What does concern me about the DC10 is reliability. Remember Excalibur?? I'm sure the lease costs are low but then surely the running costs will be high - maintenance and reliability due age, crew costs (3 man crew), fuel burn, future noise restrictions. Finally will the customer actually like flying on it. As per 'carsurvey.org' the modern 757s seem to be popular while the A300s not . At the end of the day the passenger is your bread and butter.
We'll see what happens.
Ron

If given the right amount of tlc the DC10 in question is a wonderfully reliable old girl. A pleasure to fly. If given the chance to try it grab it with both hands. Pax love it, they don't feel hemmed in as with some of the single aisle aircaft around.

db 767

Are you the bloke who is always grieving!

Scandics L1011
 

Good old EI-CNN which flew for Scandic in the summer of '99 (I believe) departed for AUH at the end of that summer season and hasn't been seen since. I assume this is because its' operators (Aer Turas) were unable or didn't pay GAMCO for the work which was done to it and there it sits - can anyone correct me?

I have looked at Airliners.net and there are no photos of it at AUH - does anyone know of any?

I believe it spent most of its' summer that year based at MAN operating subbies and generally digging people out of huge holes caused by tech delays. I am told it was dubbed "Lucky" but I don't know why. Perhaps it should have been called Thunderbird 2 ?

Didnt that plane operate for Caledonian along with the other Tristars.
Does anyone know why The Cally tristars had their luggage racks removed inside?

2 A300 FFCC goes to MNG Ailines Turkey.