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Post by guyarab on Jun 16, 2008 12:09:13 GMT 1
Whilst this enquiry is not West Yorkshire based, it involves local people travelling from Manchester Airport to Tenerife.
The question is - does anyone know the type of aircraft used on this route. of XL Airways? It flies out from Manchester at around 1700 hrs on a Friday. I have heard it could be a 747, but can only find 737/757s in their fleetlist.
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Post by humberside on Jun 17, 2008 11:43:54 GMT 1
XL dont use B747's anymore. If its shorthaul it will probably be a B737, maybe a new 900ER series aircraft. If not could be a B767-200
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Post by guyarab on Jun 17, 2008 13:20:03 GMT 1
Thanks Humberside very much for the info. I can now inform my nephew. Trouble is - he will raise the question about details of the new 900 series, so if you can - they would be most welcome.
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Post by nick on Jun 17, 2008 16:00:25 GMT 1
I would say it would be one of the following:
737-800
737-900(You wont notice much differnece on the A/C apart from the exist and maybe more seating aswell as the safety card)
757-200
The 747 fly's for Direct City.Com or did and would often be seen on the MAN/LGW-MCO. Very rare do you catch a Charter Airline flying Jumbos around europe even widebodied A/C on short haul flights are becoming rare with charter airlines
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Post by humberside on Jun 18, 2008 22:01:59 GMT 1
No B757's either any more. The B747's were flown for Travel City Direct
The B737-900ER's do have more seating than the -800's. Other than that shouldnt be much diferent from any other B737NG
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Post by nick on Jun 19, 2008 21:25:17 GMT 1
The 39ER has one more exit and is designed to seat as much as the 752 did except it dosnt have the range.
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Post by stagecoach2008 on Jul 30, 2008 2:20:24 GMT 1
nope xl have 747-300 airplanes
there in the name of travel direct .com
i should know i have a 9 houres flight on one last week for sanford - florida
def-def xl said every-were
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Post by nick on Jul 30, 2008 8:18:44 GMT 1
^^
Under the name of Travel Direct and operate the Cardiff-Carabean and Flordia flights with another base.
If they were operating the MAN-Sanford flight they were a replacment for the A332 or 763
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Post by humberside on Jul 31, 2008 15:20:35 GMT 1
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Post by nick on Jul 31, 2008 15:25:18 GMT 1
Steagcoach when did you fly the 743 for XL because TCD is operating a 767 and 330 contracted out from XL.
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Post by transportem on Aug 18, 2008 18:19:45 GMT 1
Did XL used to operate 767s, as I'm sure I recall flying on one of these a few years ago? Though I could well be mistaken, as my knowledge of aircraft is limited to say the least!
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Post by nick on Aug 18, 2008 20:28:08 GMT 1
Max, the 763 are still going stong in the XL Fleet, but i dont know about the 762
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Post by manclad on Aug 20, 2008 0:14:14 GMT 1
XL still have 763's and one or two of the ex Britannia 762's.
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Post by olympian on Sept 12, 2008 15:49:32 GMT 1
Dont think XL will be flying no more as they have gone bust last night.
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Post by firstbusmaniacrich on Sept 23, 2008 19:30:42 GMT 1
Excel in flightsim 2004 just flight traffic addon is now operated by my ricardolines airline lol
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Post by LukePA on Nov 16, 2008 16:44:49 GMT 1
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