Bolivia’s Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) has added another BAe 146 to its fleet. The airline acquired former Flightline series 200 G-CLHD (msn E2023) from lessor Tronos. After being held up at Aberdeen over unpaid bills, she finally departed on 7 January to Summerside, routing via Reykjavik. She then left Summerside […]
Southend-based Flightline abruptly shut down operations on 3 December. A terse press release from KPMG LLP indicated that it has been appointed as administrators and that they would be winding down the business. 235 staff members were made redundant, with only a small number remaining to help the administrators. Flightline […]
The SAAB 2000s of Eastern Airlines are scheduled to replace Flightline‘s BAe 146s on the oil industry support services between Aberdeen and Scatsta in February 2009. Eastern won the contract to operate the flights on behalf of the Integrated Aviation Consortium. Flightline had been operating the flights since December 2001, […]
Flightline‘s BAe 146-200 G-FLTF (msn E2022) has now had British Airways titles and ribbon applied on the forward fuselage, in a manner similar to that on sistership G-FLTB (msn E2024). Both are operating on behalf of BA CityFlyer from London City. G-FLTF began operating for BA CityFlyer in early September. […]
Flybe has retired its last BAe 146. The airline once operated a large fleet of BAe 146s, including examples of all three variants. It had also been the launch customer for the Avro RJX, with an order for fourteen. When that program was cancelled, however, the airline was forced to […]
Flightline is operating a second BAe 146 on services from London City on behalf of BA CityFlyer. Flightline had already been operating BAe 146-200 G-FLTB (msn E2024) from London City to Dublin. With BA CityFlyer launching several new routes out of London City on 8 September, Flightline was once again […]
The summer of 2008 seems to be proving an unfortunate one for Flightline‘s BAe 146s. After series 200 G-OZRH (msn E2047) was damaged by a lightning strike in late July, sistership G-CLHD (msn E2023) was damaged in a thunderstorm while overnighting at Milano Malpensa on 14-15 August. Strong winds blew […]
Flightline BAe 146-200 G-OZRH (msn E2047) was damaged by a lightning strike while operating from Aberdeen to Scatsta on 30 July. The 146 was being operated on oil industry support flights. She was ferried unpressurized to Aberdeen for repairs, which took about a week. During this time, Flightline borrowed BAe […]
Flightline contract to operate a BAe 146 of behalf of Swiss ended on July 31. Series 300 G-FLTC (msn E3205) had been used for the services, although series 200 G-OZRH (msn E2047) filled in for a time while G-FLTC was on maintenance at Southend.
As in previous summers, Flightline is basing one of its BAe 146s in Italy. Series 200 G-CLHD (msn E2023) is based Milano Malpensa, but also operates from Bergamo and Verona. Flights are undertaken on behalf of a variety of Italian tour operators, to destinations such as Tortoli and Crotone. Flightline […]
