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I’ve got a flight BA2645 from Malaga back to LGW today at 21:35 in Club Europe. On the whole, nothing particularly out of the ordinary.
I received a text from BA saying that the flight would be operated by Titan Airways. I was trying to work out the seating plan, so used flight aware and the plane has a registration G-OATW, which when googled says it used to be G-GBNI which Boris used diplomatically.
How accurate is flightaware for registrations?
The livery after G-GBNI seems to be TCS World Travel which is a high end travel company.
When it was Bojo’s private jet, it was configured with 52 business class seats. YouTube has a TCS jet with business seats posted 5 months ago. I’m assuming Titan has reconfigured the jet in a one class configuration, but one can dream.
Can anyone bring me back to reality?
No, the UKs equivalent of air force one is a permanent Royal Air Force plane leased from air tanker services
I thought they used two planes, one was an a330 and the other was this, an a321neo, but could be wrong.
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a321neo-g-oatw-titan-airways/r1pq06
You can see the gov livery on this site. Either way, mystery solved as that website also says it was reconfigured with Y195 in Apr 2024.
195 is still roomy though , a BA equivalent carries max 220 passengers and a Wizzair 239!
I’m surprised how often the plane has been reconfigured. I assumed it was a super expensive endeavour that airlines try to do once every ten years.
I’m on board and it definitely beats a BA plane.
It depends, if you’re just removing seats it’s cheap. If you are buying brand new seats for a plane, even economy seats can easily cost you $5 to $10k each. Which means easily a million for a whole A321
Refurbing old seats is obviously cheap. The biggest thing for scheduled airlines is the time out of service, that’s not as much of an issue for titan as their charter. For BA to replace every seat in there fleet outside of scheduled maintenance, would basically mean a plane out of service for 2 years maybe more
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