PHL-LHR

[InternationalShannon]

Nice Photos Ed...I wonder what was in these bags they gave out...worthless amenity kits or was it worth something this time 🙂

it was tuna burritos to go!! YESSSSSSSSSS!!!

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Anyone have any information as to why the departure was over an hour late last night? Given the late time of this flight this one could get pretty ugly on late departures!

I would venture out to say, "weather". The entire NE was socked in with delays, wait till summer when the T-Storms come.

Who did US get the slots from officially?

 

[gizmo_sc]

I hear we got them from BMI for about $60 million and some codeshare flights, on the other hand CO paid $209 Million for EWR and IAH so we got a bargain.

 

[zethya]

Uh, not quite. About two years after the TWA deal, AA still managed to get authority for PHL-LGW, along with BNA-LGW and RDU-LGW. All three started on the same day, and within a year, both PHL and BNA were killed off.

DFW never had any LHR service... until today, that is.

Uh, not quite. AA ADDED a new LHR flight to their long existing DFW-LHR route which was transferred from PHL. AA flew PHL-LHR for a year as I stated earlier. Check the history, DFW was Not a permitted LHR access point under Bermuda II.

 

[PHL Approach]

Anyone have any information as to why the departure was over an hour late last night? Given the late time of this flight this one could get pretty ugly on late departures!

271 had a bad parking brake and something up with a SIDS screen?

 

[ringmaruf]

I would venture out to say, "weather". The entire NE was socked in with delays, wait till summer when the T-Storms come.

Who did US get the slots from officially?

I hear we got them from BMI for about $60 million and some codeshare flights, on the other hand CO paid $209 Million for EWR and IAH so we got a bargain.

US bought them from Alitalia, for about $60 million. It's about the same CO paid, considering CO bought 3 pairs of slots.

 

[LGA777]

Ed's photo's are the second I have seen of an A-330 cabin with the blue leather in coach and the new 767 style blue cloth on the original Envoy seats. Anyone know are many of the 330's now in this look or only a handful ?

Thanks

LGA777

 

[YVINTERN]

Ed's photo's are the second I have seen of an A-330 cabin with the blue leather in coach and the new 767 style blue cloth on the original Envoy seats. Anyone know are many of the 330's now in this look or only a handful ?

Thanks

LGA777

Edward didn't post this LOL...PHL Approach did.

 

[PHL Approach]

Ed's photo's are the second I have seen of an A-330 cabin with the blue leather in coach and the new 767 style blue cloth on the original Envoy seats. Anyone know are many of the 330's now in this look or only a handful ?

Thanks

LGA777

Here is my list:

270
271
272
276
277

273 is next up in a few days.

 

[DHG750R]

Didn't US Airways have a partnership/marketing agreement/wet lease agreement with BA at one time?

It was a wet lease , it used a 767s It was N654US (r.i.p.) and 655
654 http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Air...7-ER/0214428/L/
655 http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Air...7-ER/0394233/L/

I believe one operated BWI-LGW and the other CLT-LGW

 

[WCT]

Here is my list:

270
271
272
276
277

273 is next up in a few days.

Where in heck are the "new" Envoy seats? We start an new service to LHR with those coach looking seats? Real nice Tempe! The amenity kits look classy, are they always boarded for pax's in Envoy? 🙂

 

[CubsFanJohn]

AA flew PHL-LHR for a full year and then transfered the authority to DFW - which was their plan all along after gaining approval to acquire TWA.

Thank You I stand corrected then.

 

[CubsFanJohn]

Here is the link to the Photo I took. Sorry for the wing of N647UA (UA 949 LHR-ORD) in it. Sorry for the posting delay, I have gotten busy with other matters the last few days.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2782163730...VDk?vhost=rides

 

[Whatnow?]

Where in heck are the "new" Envoy seats? We start an new service to LHR with those coach looking seats? Real nice Tempe! The amenity kits look classy, are they always boarded for pax's in Envoy? 🙂

The seats that are currently on the A330's are the original seats that came with the airplane, the only exception is that they changed the seat covers to the blue fabric to match the blue leather in coach. Once we start taking deliveries of the "new" A330-200's they will have brand new "Envoy" seats, which I might add, are fantastic and totally different from the new 767 Envoy seats. Once the new A330's start appearing on the property the 300's will be retrofitted with the "new" Envoy seats along with a brand new more state of the art IFE system for passenger entertainment.

The canvas bags in the picture of the Envoy cabin are not the amenity kits that passengers recieve daily...those were for the inaugural flight to LHR which had gifts and trinkets inside of them.

On another note, it was extremely dissapointing once again that nobody from Tempe even bothered to show up for the Inaugural flight to Heathrow Saturday night! They were no Suits from Tempe anywhere to be found, all of the festivities were orchestrated by Inflight here in PHL and Customer Service. Passengers were treated to snacks in the boarding area provided by Cibo, they each recieved a double decker bus with the USAirways logo, Heathrow and date on it, and each passenger was treated to a glass of champagne onboard prior to take off....again all PHL station orchestrated! A big thanks should be given to Andrew Schiavello, PHL Inflight Int'l Base Manager for organizing the event. Steve Kingsley, Sherri Shamblin, DP and others were nowhere to be found! Once again showing that you cannot run this Airline from Tempe Arizona!

 

[US1YFARE]

Steve Kingsley, Sherri Shamblin, DP and others were nowhere to be found! Once again showing that you cannot run this Airline from Tempe Arizona!

Maybe she was tied up with figuring out how to further cheapen the US product. She is a very busy person you know...all that taste testing and all...oh, and the horses...she can't even show up at a scheduled town hall to address inflight issues. 🙄