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Gatwick A330's

PostPosted: 03 Jan 2015, 01:58
by G-VSHY
Don't know whether this has come up before (as i haven't been online for quite some time), but i just wanted to know, which are the A330's which are supposed to be based at Gatwick. Is there no strict allocation on the Gatwick fleet since G-VSXY and G-VKSS moved to LHR? Does it keep on changing from time to time? G-VGBR seems to have been based at LGW for a long time, going there after visiting Malta in June last year

Re: Gatwick A330's

PostPosted: 03 Jan 2015, 09:26
by virginboy747
None of them are specifically LGW based. They basically stay there until they are due for a maintenance check then get swapped round with another one.

Re: Gatwick A330's

PostPosted: 05 Jan 2015, 23:29
by benchsmith
all aircraft now, once refitted (LHR) or replaced (LHR), will be interchangable between LGW and LHR although LHR has a slightly different layout due to the pax class offering being different due to commonly more business than leisure but vs are looking to have a fleet that is interchangable and flexible to allow it to cover any problems that may arise to copy as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Re: Gatwick A330's

PostPosted: 07 Jan 2015, 20:19
by Richie
All the A333 are identical.

All have 33 UCS2 seats
All have 48 premium seats
All have 185 economy seats

The only difference between any of them is that 5 have handsets in economy for IFE and 5 do not and 3 have WIFI.

Re: Gatwick A330's

PostPosted: 08 Jan 2015, 14:52
by Fuzzy14
The three with wifi, are they perchance VKSS, VSXY and VINE as they were the 2-class refitted to 3? And I agree, AFAIK there are no layout differences between them all.