Airline Name
Royal MailIATA: ZT / ICAO: AWC / Callsign: ZAP (Used Titan’s details as it was operated by them)
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B733 (737-300) (1 operated),
Why should this airline be added?
This airline isn’t so much an airline as it is part of Royal Mail’s postal operations, utilising a lot of aircraft and airlines to deliver parcels and mail across the UK for both Royal Mail and Parcel Force. Jet2 notably operated a freighter for Royal Mail as well as having several of their 737-300 being QC variants where they’d fly holidaymakers to and from Spain and Europe during the day, then have the seats removed to take parcels and mail across the UK. Loganair, Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways have also been involved in transporting mail, Loganair and BA more so, all operating out of bases in East Midlands, Stansted, Belfast, Edinburgh and others. Emerald Airways operated ex-Dan Air HS748’s for the airline in the 1990s and in 2004, Titan took this ex-easyJet/Go 737-300 and converted it for freight use, painting it in Royal Mail’s iconic red livery and flying it across the UK until 2012 when the lease was up and Royal Mail’s operations started moving away from dedicated large freighters, to utilising the hold space on regional flights and moving a lot its work onto the road utilising a large lorry fleet, bringing an end to this lovely painted aircraft (And Royal Mail on rails, RIP Class 325).It should be added as akin to Italy’s Poste Air Cargo and it would make an excellent addition, not just to the UK’s cargo market across to Europe, but also as a potential local cargo airline at LHR, which it did visit a couple of times, though it was based out of Stansted.
And, ofc, I’d love to see it, especially if it can be utilised alongside Jet2’s 733F.