What are the different british airways callsigns?

[Guest]

So British Airways uses different callsigns, besides speedbird. Are there any ai flight plans with this? which flights and callsigns are used? Thanks

[scoob 18]

i believe this is what you are looking for -http://www.britishairways.com/travel/bafran/public/en_usthese airlines are not BA, but fly under the BA name.and BA Cityflyer - a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways and operates all UK and European services to and from London City airport. (http://www.britishairways.com/travel/baalliance/public/en_us#cdspartners)look at these sites to find callsigns -http://www.geocities.com/hawaiian717/airinfo.htmlhttp://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/airlcodesearch.aspexample -Loganair = LOGANalso not that many of these callsigns are not supported by FS9 or FSX. you will need to use an editor to make the callsign work (such as edit voic pack - http://www.editvoicepack.com/ )--

[Guest]

thanks for the links but I thought there were british airways flights with 757s that use a different callsign than speedbird for some reason, I was hoping someone knew

[scoob 18]

some 757s have 'heavy' added to the callsign. the details on why this happens are complicated (and i don't know if BA's 757s are 'heavy'). i suggested 'yahoo' or 'google'.--

[Petraeus 147]

There was a time when BA operated a shuttle service to some domestic airports, ie when they had a planeload they flew, rather than flying to specific schedules. They typically used 757's on these flights. I think this may be where the 'Shuttle' call sign came from.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedbirdPetraeus

[philbrown 9]

All BA domestic services use "SHUTTLE", using 737's, 757's and A320's.Into Heathrow, callsigns are alpha-numberic (ie SHT9T). Into Gatwick, they use up to 4 numbers (ie SHT2903).

[Guest]

Thanks Phil, do you happen to know whether any ai flight plans for BA separate the domestic flights like that so I can assign them the shuttle callsign? Thanks

[FLEX1978 373]

I think the 757 uses Heavy due the wing design causing large wake vortices despite it's size.

[KevinAu 441]

>I think the 757 uses Heavy due the wing design causing large>wake vortices despite it's size.A "Heavy" is an aircraft capable of takeoff weights over 255,000lbs. Only 757-300s and certain -200s meet this criteria. It has nothing to do with its wing. However, there are traffic separation rules that are specfic to situations involving the "757" type.

[philbrown 9]

Flight plans - difficult to obtain for domestic UK flights as flight plan data is quite restricted in the UK. There are some sites that log ACARS data from flights in the UK that will list some callsigns. There are also a few flight plans in the AVSIM Flight Plan forum for UK domestic flights using the SHUTTLE callsign.Heavy - In the UK a 757 isn't regarded as a Heavy. It does have quite high wake vortex properties for it's weight though, and so we have a separate Upper Medium vortex category in the UK. Extra spacing is provided on final approach, and on departure, some airlines require extra spacing when departing behind a 757, although this seems to be a airline specific thing, and so usually the tower will ask if they require 1 minute or 2 for departure behind a 757.Regarding the Heavy call, this again isn't used in the UK, despite the UK AIP saying that it should be used on first contact.