GB Airways?

Flying to Morocco via London. The London-Marrakech segment is "BA, operated
by GB Airways". The rather basic GB web page says their livery and uniforms
are of BA.

I am curious about why there is a separate company pretending to be BA. I
guess commuter airlines do this in the US, but I haven't heard of it in
this intercontinental-flight context. Is it maybe a charter-type outfit,
with 7-across seating in the A320 or no leg room or something like that?
What should we expect to find?

GB Airways is a BA "franchisee" - BA does this a lot. They meet BA's
standards for comfort, equipment, service, etc. Actually, a pretty decent
airline. Fly mainly A320's and A321's, but may still have a couple of
737-300s.

No different than Continental/Delta/Northwest codeshares or United/US
Airways in the U.S.

Jeff


"R. Kalia" <kalia@teranews.net> wrote in message
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> Flying to Morocco via London. The London-Marrakech segment is "BA,
operated
> by GB Airways". The rather basic GB web page says their livery and
uniforms
> are of BA.
>
> I am curious about why there is a separate company pretending to be BA. I
> guess commuter airlines do this in the US, but I haven't heard of it in
> this intercontinental-flight context. Is it maybe a charter-type outfit,
> with 7-across seating in the A320 or no leg room or something like that?
> What should we expect to find?

> > I am curious about why there is a separate company pretending to be BA.
I
> > guess commuter airlines do this in the US, but I haven't heard of it in
> > this intercontinental-flight context. Is it maybe a charter-type outfit,
> > with 7-across seating in the A320 or no leg room or something like that?
> > What should we expect to find?
>
> I've flown with these guys on routes they operate to Portugal. I suspect
> most passengers wouldn't realise it wasn't BA proper. Livery etc. is all
> the same as BA. It's certainly isn't a charter type outfit.

Can Cornfirm this, OPO-LGW I only recently found out they were GB Air, BA
fligt Number, BA Boarding Card, BA Checkin etc etc.