further thread creep but I've done 8:45 on the Almaty - LHR recently! Like you say - good aircraft for the job the 757.

Even further thread creep...8.37 from JIB to CDG, pulled onto stand with mins + 100kg or so....
I was told at the time, that was the record..the Skipper was a certain fellow of Easyjet TV fame..who has now gone onto the 777 out in the sandpit:ok:

Fade old son never a truer word spoken...

I even remember leaning out the window in JIB and counting the bags (getting left behind) being loaded..so the locals couldn't cheat!

In 1990 I flew an Air Europe 757 from KHI to LGW nonstop in 9.20 min. We had 228 Scandinavian passengers on board and landed with minimum fuel. For info the great circle distance is 400 nm longer than JIB-CDG.

My best wishes to everyone at Astraeus.

Dont tell commercial. We did have a chap do Jib LGW non stop due CDG being Cat 3 wx and the crew being only Cat 1. Loving the weather in Almaty and Bishkek at the mo. This is really serious thread creep folks!

what you trying to say,haughtney ?Do you think I'm fat or something ?:}

Yes, the headrest is great in RX:I love the boeing arm rests, sit still too long and have all circulation cut off to both arms - like a train driver's 'dead mans handle' maybe ?!

I'm obviously not trying hard enough best JIB was about 8:30, loved the telex plog in one long reel - stuck it out the window one day and it was long enough to touch the nosewheel.

Er,sorry back on topic....

What happened to the original thread? Are the lay offs still on the cards or does no one really know? Presumably the consultation process is still going on or has it now been suspended?

Count Bawbag

Sorry for drifting off but surely it can't be any worse than flying Terry Tracksuit and Sheila Shellsuit back from Costa Del Chav at some unearthly hour of the night?

Slight thread drift but is Bruce Dickinson still flying for Astraeus?

If he is hope all this doesn't affect him.

(yes, Iron Maiden fan and huge admirer of Brucey).

Yes. I don't think you have to worry unduly, there are a few companies I reckon will go bust long before Astraeus.

Too much conjecture on here,
I don't think anyone not directly involved with the company will hear any more on pprune,

Although you can judge by the tone of some of the above, spirits are still high !

Mister Geezer

Yes, we at Jet2 do indeed transport fighting tracksuit trash from one drinking bout to another. And if someone says 'but they pay your wages', well, they don't. I think a gang of church mice dole out my wages from their own pocket.

So, in all, I'd like to see AEU hang about. We don't need any more redundancies in this business. Plus we can't have part time slackers like Fade to Grey out of a job :}

Naughty, naughty bawbag....you might give away my identity ( i think most know anyhow)

However I only know one person at jet2......so, what is it - new year,new identity ?:}

OK, you got me, it's me, Phillip Meekon

I can not understand that most of the people on this forum have such high thoughts about companies like this....charge people to work for them etc.....of course they have a better posibility to make money......

I also heard from a friend in scandinavia that aeu has a really !!!!ty reputation up there from when they flew wetlease for sterling..... especielly when they do things that are totally unheard of in civilised pårts of the world...

JUst my 5 cents....:rolleyes:

So then EUmember.

You heard from a friend who probably heard it from his friend, who heard it from the ramp agent, who heard it from the honeycart driver.

I would be very careful that the mods don't chase you on this one.
You are skating close to libel I suspect.

The words 'put up' or 'shut up' come to mind.

:ugh:

As an experienced commercial industry person I'm with Say Again Slowly.

The current MD is one of the shrewdest commercial operators I have ever met in my life and has without a shadow of doubt saved the airline already with it's recent transformation into an all-ACMI operation.

Times are obviously challenging but the company is in very safe hands. If it can survive it will.

Good luck to all involved :ok:

Why do we have high opinions ?
because we work for them and we like it and we want it to continue......you (EU) member.

EU... wrt "aeu has a really !!!!ty reputation up there from when they flew wetlease for Sterling",... that's probably because they (AEU) made Sterling look like the very expensive & poorly run legacy outfit that it was (nb. Sterling went bust, right; QED?!)... as opposed to it being a lean & efficient machine (like AEU).

Doors to Auto'... I've got to agree with you (especially wrt AEU's CEO... and whom is / was a bloody good Training Captain too)!

I am quite puzzled about the existance of this thread. Is there anything that supports the story that AEU is going bust ,other than they did not extend sby´s contract? When you are comparing Sterling to AEU, there is nothing to compare. Other then these companies have had the same ownership. But under different holding companies. Current owner of AEU owned Sterling before it went bust. Sterling was in selling tickets and travel packages and AEU in wet lease only.

!!!!ty reputation in Scandanavia?....In the summer our two aircraft had the best on-time departure record of the Sterling fleet AND the lowest operating cost.