British Airways using propeller aircraft between Gatwick and Glasgow this summer

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• IslandDweller says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:07

  Mark. Re prop planes doing push back themselves. It does happen in the UK, I experienced it on the little plane that Loganair uses to Barra from Glasgow.

  On the long flight time GLA-LGW. So much of this is the “round the houses” routing you get to avoid London airspace. I’ve been on this route where we passed west of Oxford then ended up crossing the southcoast before we approached LGW

• tricky says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:13

  I use these to go from Birmingham to Belfast city….it’s a sedate fight and cosy on board..

  My thoughts are that the baggage area is not very big and if people are transferring they may be in for a shock..

• Wyvis Man says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:26

  I travel regularly on the Aer Lingus Regional ATR72 between Dublin and Glasgow. They are modern, quiet and comfortable, but the seating is a bit tight and the overhead bins small. The passengers connecting from US and Aer Lingus international services often kick-off when they see how little bag space there is and often have their bags removed to the hold. I fly long-haul in business so I am used to taking hand-luggage only, I would think about easyJet for Glasgow / Gatwick and suck up the extra charges to keep my hand-luggage but then you lose the single booking protection for when things go wrong and BA don’t have to rebook you and look after you, so there is much to consider.

• Julie Bissett says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:27

  I’ve been moved onto this flight in the summer and downgraded. My hold cabin luggage allowance on it
  is still 2 x 32kg each. Now got dimensions on hand baggage but haven’t measured them yet to see what size of cabin bag that is.

  • JDB says:

    14 Feb14 February 09:35

    That baggage allowance may not materialise in reality as these aircraft have strict overall limits, so on fuller flights some bags will get left behind.

    • PH says:

      15 Feb15 February 16:04

      I wonder if they will prioritise loading ‘orange tag’ bags (J connection / OWS and OWE). I know BA doesn’t officially do priority luggage and the orange/yellow tags are just for show…

• David says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:32

  I’m old enough to have flown Vanguard (4 props) to Malta, a long flight, and Belfast on a Viscount (2props). The noise and vibration were noteworthy. I have to say I was pleased when turbo fan jets (comet & trident) were introduced on these routes

  • Mark says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:23

    Viscounts have four engines too (Rolls Royce Darts)

• FlightDoctor says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:34

  Great memories of flying in propeller planes over the years, including these ATRs, Shorts 360s, Bandeirantes, Jetstreams, Trislanders, Heralds and even a Dakota on a champagne pleasure flight over Key West at sunset!

• Andrew says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:44

  Anyone complaining about noise on an ATR clearly never flew on a Shorts 360 with Cityflyer/Manx/Gill/Loganair in the 1990s… That was REAL noise!

  • Sideshowbob says:

    14 Feb14 February 09:58

    Or the Dash 8-Q300 where the Q meant quiet lol!

• Ryan says:

  14 Feb14 February 10:02

  Flew on an ATR 72 with Air NZ last year, straight after being in biz class which was far from ideal after a near 40 hour total trip from LHR!

  They didn’t have ANY security before boarding, it was surreal

  • MKB says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:20

    I experienced zero security on Air New Zealand domestic many years ago. Glad to hear it survives. It was so much more civilised.

    • Ryan says:

      14 Feb14 February 11:39

      100%, they see it as a shuttle / bus service, it was all “pre 9/11” – all flights wait in an area and they just call up each flight a few mins before, loved it

      • The real Swiss Tony says:

        14 Feb14 February 11:54

        Am I right in thinking some of the highlands & islands flights in Scotland have no security? Belize was no security other than at the main airport, although they were also happy to let a passenger ride shotgun if you asked nicely so 125ml of toothpaste was the least of their concerns, and back in the day Norway was security free on domestics as well (but again pre-9/11).

        • Ryan says:

          14 Feb14 February 17:13

          There wasn’t any security at the airport either… literally walk in and straight on the plane (ID check)

        • Martin says:

          15 Feb15 February 07:44

          I think the Orkney island hoppers didn’t have any, but anything going south does. (Domestic arrivals at ABZ, EDI and GLA mix with departures so it would need to meet international standards)

    • Alan says:

      14 Feb14 February 20:18

      Yep domestic prop flights in NZ still no security or ID, just pitch up with BP – love it!

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