So you'll recall that at MRO Europe Timco announced a major 767 wingletting and IFE deal, but said they couldn't say who the customer was. I narrowed it down to BA, Aeroflot or Thomsonfly but suspected that the dollar value wasn't enough to account for BA's 21-strong fleet.
And so it proves - the latest airline to take Aviation Partners Boeing's winglets on the 767, is Thomsonfly of the UK. I haven't completely worked it out, but it's highly likely that this is intimately related to the cancellation by Thomson Airways' parent Tui this week of 10 of its Boeing 787 orders.
If you're in other parts of the world you may not be familiar with the hideously complex restructuring that's gone on in the Anglo-UK leisure carrier sector over the last few years. But Thomson Airways (previously Thomsonfly) is an airline owned by Tui Group of Germany and resulting from the merger of the old Thomson Airways and First Choice. Thomson Airways in turn was the renamed Britannia Airways - one of the great brands of UK aviation. Got that?
If you're in other parts of the world you may not be familiar with the hideously complex restructuring that's gone on in the Anglo-UK leisure carrier sector over the last few years. But Thomson Airways (previously Thomsonfly) is an airline owned by Tui Group of Germany and resulting from the merger of the old Thomson Airways and First Choice. Thomson Airways in turn was the renamed Britannia Airways - one of the great brands of UK aviation. Got that?
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