Lego Dornier for British Airways

The above title may be odd but it is true.


Sun-Air of Scandinavia, the Danish regional airline based at Billund Airport, near the home of Legoland, operates a fleet of 32-seat Dornier 328JET aircraft. 

Painted in British Airways colours, and with BA flight numbers, the airline has returned to Gothenburg, London City and Manchester airports, all from Billund. 

Whilst essentially a holiday destination Billund is not an easy place to get to, 200 miles from Copenhagen and about the same from Hamburg, across the German border.  The tiny town, with a population of just 7,000, attracts two million tourists a year to the Legoland Resort.

Until the 2002 demise of the Dornier company, 110 aircraft were produced with a very comfortable 2+1 seating configuration.

The aircraft was a development of the basically similar, but propjet-powered Dornier 328, which first flew in 1991, and 217 completed.  The company failed within days of the Dornier 728 rollout, of the same class as the Airbus A220 (ex-Bombardier C type) and Embraer E series which were to follow.

www.ba.com

www.sun-air.dk

www.legoland.dk

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