Domestic Internal Flights

[Flying Fox]

Just curious. I know that HRH flew to CBR on a BA 777 with special royal suite from LHR.

Does she use the same aircraft for flights within AUS or something else?

 

[Major]

The RAAF provided one of the VIP flight aircraft for her trip to BNE

 

[Mal]

I believe any internal flight will be via one of the Raaf 737s. There is some customary rule that Australia provides the internal flights. Someone else will know the full protocol details.

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[DC3]

... I know that HRH flew to CBR on a BA 777 with special royal suite from LHR ...

Slightly O/T. The monarchists here may correct me. However, I understand that the term HRH is not used for Kings and Queens (i.e., QE II would be Her Majesty). A princess or prince would be HRH, including the Duke (aka Prince Philip). Trivial, maybe.

 

[harvyk]

I'd be guessing it's one of the RAAF's VIP 737's... Considering technically she owns those jets thanks to the R part of RAAF...

 

[DC3]

I'd be guessing it's one of the RAAF's VIP 737's... Considering technically she owns those jets thanks to the R part of RAAF...

And let's hope that HM doesn't technically try to sell them off

 

[Danger]

The BA 777 that made the flight also did it direct, all the well from London to Canberra in 18 hours.

 

[Princess Fiona]

The BA 777 that made the flight also did it direct, all the well from London to Canberra in 18 hours.

I'm guessing that's probably not a commercially viable routing ?
Would be nice though

 

[Danger]

I'm guessing that's probably not a commercially viable routing ?
Would be nice though

The news article I read said the flight had a very small payload, which surprised me as I would have thought Her Majesty would have flown with a rather extensive wardrobe.

 

[docjames]

The news article I read said the flight had a very small payload, which surprised me as I would have thought Her Majesty would have flown with a rather extensive wardrobe.

That'd be a lot of clothes given the seating capacity of a 777, standard pax luggage, with cargo loaded as well :shock:


Nice work LHR-CBR direct! Presume she'll also do PER-LHR direct?

 

[Flying Fox]

The BA 777 that made the flight also did it direct, all the well from London to Canberra in 18 hours.

How cool is that!

Still not as long as SIN-NYC at 18:40. Now that really is ULH commercial flying!!!

 

[harvyk]

The BA 777 that made the flight also did it direct, all the well from London to Canberra in 18 hours.

That is an impressive effort...
The thing I'd love to know is if HM was given a safety briefing prior to take off...

 

[TonyHancock]

That is an impressive effort...
The thing I'd love to know is if HM was given a safety briefing prior to take off...

...and was she seated in an emergency exit row?

 

[harvyk]

...and was she seated in an emergency exit row?

I somewhat highly doubt that... Unless they are now installing F seats further back in the plane...

 

[TonyHancock]

I somewhat highly doubt that... Unless they are now installing F seats further back in the plane...

I believe she is operating under the new UK govt austerity measures, and BA wanted an extra 5k* for a seat in F!



*Warning for the more serious members. I have absolutely no evidence or basis for making this comment, I understand that the BA 777 was chartered for the visit and the Queen would quite probably have been sat in 1A. My comment was for comic (well attempted comic) effect.

 

[yohy?!]

*Warning for the more serious members. I have absolutely no evidence or basis for making this comment, I understand that the BA 777 was chartered for the visit and the Queen would quite probably have been sat in 1A. My comment was for comic (well attempted comic) effect.

LOL - I know there's a lot of new members on the board but hopefully this disclaimer isn't necessary after every post!

 

[Fruitcake]

The BA 777 that made the flight also did it direct, all the well from London to Canberra in 18 hours.

This contrasts most reports I've seen about HM's inbound flight, including discussion on airliners.net - one report I managed to dig up quickly here states that "during the 10,500-mile trip... the British Airways charter stopped off only once to briefly refuel in Singapore."

To my knowledge BA does not have 777-200LRs - just the 'vanilla' 777-200 - could these do LHR-CBR, even when extremely light? Obviously the 777L could, given its 22hr+ record flight a few years ago.

 

[haydensydney]

I actually read somewhere that there was a brief stopover in SIN for refueling.

 

[Mal]

Actually I believe a bed gets installed in f for the queen...

The only reason I know these stupid snippets about the queen and B.A. is because I used to read the B.A. forum at flyertalk frequently and there's a few threads on the topic. Can't search now but I'm sure someone will.

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[markj23]

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im guessing that might be her?