Some nice footage of the Aer Lingus Retrojet

radar0976

Some nice footage of the Aer Lingus Retrojet in Cork yesterday. They seem to be doing a good job of sharing her around the bases. She was based in Belfast for alot of January and now seems to be back in Cork for a bit, having done the odd stint in DUB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2yU8ReDGg

CaptainSkidmark

I flew her from Amsterdam to Cork last october, Lovely smell of new out of it!

radar0976

CaptainSkidmark wrote: »

I flew her from Amsterdam to Cork last october, Lovely smell of new out of it!

Nice.Haven't had the pleasure myself yet. They don't even have her a year yet. She was delivered on February 25th last year. Only a baba

Tenger

radar0976 wrote: »

Nice.Haven't had the pleasure myself yet. They don't even have her a year yet. She was delivered on February 25th last year. Only a baba

March 23rd actually. First flight was Sun March 27th

Edit: Sorry to be a pedant!

radar0976

Tenger wrote: »

March 23rd actually. First flight was Sun March 27th

Sorry my mistake. She first flew on Feb 25th. Thanks for clarification.

sunnysoutheast

She's great, did the Cork - Gatwick trip on her on Monday.

I think these retrojets are fantastic. the Lufthansa A321 is very smart too. I'd love to see a BOAC 777 and a BEA A320, come on BA! The BA 757 is parked at LGW.

When the queen was shaking hands with the president at Cork the retrojet took off behind in full view of the cameras, lovely bit of scheduling by Aer Lingus there.

SSE

roundymac

Don't forget the Queens flight had to wait to backtrack because a Ryanair 737 was landing. Two great bits of free publicity for Irish airlines.:D

radar0976

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

She's great, did the Cork - Gatwick trip on her on Monday.

I think these retrojets are fantastic. the Lufthansa A321 is very smart too. I'd love to see a BOAC 777 and a BEA A320, come on BA! The BA 757 is parked at LGW.

When the queen was shaking hands with the president at Cork the retrojet took off behind in full view of the cameras, lovely bit of scheduling by Aer Lingus there.

SSE

A BOAC 777 would look incredible I'd say. Are there any 777 retro jets anywhere I wonder ?

sunnysoutheast

roundymac wrote: »

Don't forget the Queens flight had to wait to backtrack because a Ryanair 737 was landing. Two great bits of free publicity for Irish airlines.:D

I flew back to Cork that day on the 2 o'clock from Heathrow. We must have been racing to get back and out before the queen arrived as we skipped the takeoff queue at Heathrow and seemed to go noticeably faster than usual on the trip back!

All to no avail though as the airport roads were closed just as I was leaving the car park :-(

SSE

kub

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

I flew back to Cork that day on the 2 o'clock from Heathrow. We must have been racing to get back and out before the queen arrived as we skipped the takeoff queue at Heathrow and seemed to go noticeably faster than usual on the trip back!

All to no avail though as the airport roads were closed just as I was leaving the car park :-(

SSE

Can we take it from that so that perhaps Heathrow ATC were cooperating with Cork ATC, in getting the EI machine landed and parked before HRH's plane moved?

sunnysoutheast

kub wrote: »

Can we take it from that so that perhaps Heathrow ATC were cooperating with Cork ATC, in getting the EI machine landed and parked before HRH's plane moved?

Maybe, I don't know for certain but it was noticeable that we didn't seem to do the usual step climb out of Heathrow and the flight itself seemed a fair bit shorter than usual - I wasn't the only one to notice it and I've been doing the same flight for over three years - and we must have skipped more than 10 planes on the way to the runway. Wish it could happen every week!

Anyway in the event HRH's 146 had to wait for a landing Ryanair!

SSE

EchoIndia

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

Maybe, I don't know for certain but it was noticeable that we didn't seem to do the usual step climb out of Heathrow and the flight itself seemed a fair bit shorter than usual - I wasn't the only one to notice it and I've been doing the same flight for over three years - and we must have skipped more than 10 planes on the way to the runway. Wish it could happen every week!

Anyway in the event HRH's 146 had to wait for a landing Ryanair!

SSE

Becase of where the Aer Lingus stands are at LHR, their flights frequently avail of an intersection departure. The runways there are 12,000 feet long so, for a short flight, takeoff from an intermediate points is no problem. As for the lack of a stepped climb, that will have been possible only because of an absence of conflicting traffic, I would suggest.

radar0976

Some more great footage of the Aer Lingus Retrojet in Cork yesterday afternoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgU6yffrY4k

Irish Steve

It is indeed a nice looking aircraft, but I have to say that I'd be sad to see the green and blue disappear from the fleet, there is something very striking and distinct about the fleet colour that marks the EI fleet out from just about everyone else out there, and it does look good, regardless of which aircraft it's on. The ATR72's look much nicer in EI colours than they ever did in Aer Aran colours.

radar0976

Irish Steve wrote: »

It is indeed a nice looking aircraft, but I have to say that I'd be sad to see the green and blue disappear from the fleet, there is something very striking and distinct about the fleet colour that marks the EI fleet out from just about everyone else out there, and it does look good, regardless of which aircraft it's on. The ATR72's look much nicer in EI colours than they ever did in Aer Aran colours.

Absolutely agree with you. It's one of the most distinctive liveries out there and really shows up well when you see it somewhere like Heathrow or Schipol. Don't think there's any fear of them getting rid of it.

Carvair

Nice night shot of it here also ..

www.flickr.com/photos/38016434@N05/6929185411

homerjay2005

seen this land friday afternoon, 14.07 just behind the flight i was waiting for to collect somebody.

looks slic i have to say.

sunshinediver

Flew on her last week, was surprised to see her pull up at the gate. Nice, clean, spacious "airy" cabin, seats slightly more comfy than usual AL (prob just less worn) Very nice trip.

drdeadlift

Theres a pic of her from earlier today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweedjacketandapipe/6935150189/in/photostream

Tenger

Feck it, may as well throw up the video I managed to snag of her initial arrival last year, she went straight into the hanger and wasn't seen for 2 days after this:
http://youtu.be/lTNcxa0xUiw