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Aer Lingus jet been escorted by a twin prop over Galway

  • 09-09-2014 01:45PM
    #1
    Autonomous
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    See a slow and fairly low flying Aer lingus Jet been escorted by a twin prop smaller plane heading east over salthill today...any ideas whats the story?
    321550.jpg


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  • #2
    westdub
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    Autonomous wrote: »
    See a slow and fairly low flying Aer lingus Jet been escoerted by a twin prop smaller plane heading east over salthill today...any ideas whats the story?

    Air to Air photo shoot ....


  • #3
    Autonomous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭Autonomous


    Why so far from a main airport for a photo shoot..? Waste of fuel imo


  • #4
    FWVT
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    Autonomous wrote: »
    Why so far from a main airport for a photo shoot..? Waste of fuel imo

    It's only 80 km from Shannon and would need to be so that it's away from their CTA. Not a waste of fuel at all, and maybe they wanted a nice Irish barren backdrop?


  • #5
    Tabnabs
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92121258&postcount=6843


  • #6
    Lapin
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    Autonomous wrote: »
    Why so far from a main airport for a photo shoot..? Waste of fuel imo

    They came to Galway for our permanent blue skies and bright sunshine. :)


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  • #7
    folbotcar
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    Pity I missed that. No doubt we'll see the results on the Air Contractors website soon!


  • #8
    EchoIndia
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    See photo of the camera ship here: https://flic.kr/p/oTzr12


  • #9
    Victor
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    Autonomous wrote: »
    Why so far from a main airport for a photo shoot..? Waste of fuel imo
    Scenery.

    This went up on the Aer Lingus Facebook on Friday. That looks like the Aran Islands in the background.

    322034.jpg


  • #10
    Nonoperational
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    Really great looking plane.


  • #11
    shanman
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    The B757 was positioning empty from Shannon to Dublin and did the photo-shoot en route


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  • #12
    Skuxx
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    shanman wrote: »
    The B757 was positioning empty from Shannon to Dublin and did the photo-shoot en route

    Slightly off topic but just wondering why it would be going from Shannon to Dublin? They only use 1 757 from Dublin, to Toronto, and 2 from Shannon, JFK and Boston. Do they switch them around? The one that flew into dub from Toronto, would that have positioned to SNN?


  • #13
    shanman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭shanman


    Yes they switch them around to do maintenance which is done in the Air Contractors hangar at Shannon on a Tuesday when there is only one westbound flight from Shannon. The one that flew in from Toronto would come down from Shannon when its turn for maintenance comes around.


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