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BA Baby Bus retires to the Netherlands
BA Baby Bus retires to the Netherlands
G-EUNA waits to line up at London City Airport for another departure to New York (Image: TransportMedia UK)
British Airways (BA/BAW) last remaining ‘baby bus’, Airbus A318 G-EUNA has been officially retired to its final resting place at Twente Airport in the Netherlands.
November Alpha used to ply her trade across the Altantic between London City and New York together with sister ship November Bravo using the infamous BA1/2 flight codes that used to be operated by Concorde.
This was dropped later to just a one aircraft service with G-EUNB leaving the fleet for Titan Airways in 2017.
Geoffrey Kent: A Luxury Safari Pioneer
The cofounder of Abercrombie & Kent, the high-end travel company, has himself visited more than 150 countries, often via private jet.
February 2021
Geoffrey Kent, cochairman of the internationally known luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, has visited 158 countries and logged 18 million miles. He is usually clean-shaven and in a tailored suit, but since COVID-19 his suits have remained in the closet and he has grown a beard. On his desk sits his constant companion: a 40-year-old battered brown leather Louis Vuitton briefcase that has served as a car jack and emergency cash holder for airplane rentals in Third World countries.
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If the airline industry were to be given a coronavirus anthem, Frank Sinatra’s Come Fly With Me wouldn’t be a candidate; Kings of Leon’s Going Nowhere, on the other hand, might just be.
A former airline captain has told
The National that the situation for many pilots is “desperate” with the devastating toll Covid has wreaked on aviation laid bare by the Pilot Survey 2021.
Of those who participated, 30 per cent described themselves as being unemployed and 17 per cent as being furloughed.
The survey also showed that only six per cent of pilots have been accommodated in non-flying roles in aviation, with another four per cent working but in another industry. This left just 43 per cent of respondents still in active service.
Meet Europe’s grounded pilots forced to find other work amid travel slump Due to the pandemic, pilots like Patrick Pawelczak are being forced to find other forms of work - Copyright Patrick Pawelczak By
• Updated: 26/02/2021
When Patrick Pawelczak flew an empty plane from Denmark to Antalya, Turkey, on March 15 a flight usually packed with tourists he didn’t think it would be a turning point in his career.
The same evening, Go2Sky, for whom he flew for, informed crews that planes would be grounded due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When he started working for the Slovakian company as a first officer, in 2018, Pawelczak, a Polish national, opted for a self-employment contract.