If I could bring them back, I would.

I’ve heard of bringing back up an old-ish thread, but this is ridiculous! :rolleyes:

Paul

Agreed

Fleet Shadower, please read the Code of Conduct posted at the top of each forum

From memory I believe they went bust in the early 70’s

15 August 1974.

1L.

Blimey, a nostalgia thread that is so old that reading it is nostalgic itself 😉

Gimmie Dan-Air and Air UK. Dan-Air for keeping the Comets going for longer than they would have otherwise done. Never flew in one, dammit. Got my first flight deck ride with them on a 727, MAN-PMI. Also got an upgrade to business class on a 1-11 back from Vienna once. Didn’t actually make much difference but we loved it at the time.

Air UK were another fine airline that were ultimately swallowed up by KLM which was a shame as they were a useful competitor to BA/BMA in the domestic market. Flew GLA-STN on numerous occasions befor the locos priced them out of the market and into the arms of their Dutch sugar daddy. 🙁

Court line

I used to like the colours of Court Line ? From memory I believe they went bust in the early 70’s

Airtours with the very old livery.

EUJET –

Ive Flown them 😀 Shame they went , KLMuk KLM UK Still fly just under KLM Cityhopper look at soem shots there Fokker 100’s some say Operated by KLM UK on them.

Proper planes unlike them Plastique and damn right annoying Airbus’s!

Nothing wrong with Airbus .

I would like to see Peach Air back with there Tristars or like luke said British Airways in the 70s/80s. just with out the Classic 747s I see another them 😀

James

British Caledonian. My first flight ever. And my city´s regional airline Prima air (only two small Saab 340)

My word, 3 years have flown!!! :rolleyes:

when a 747 CP Air stop-over to Iqaluit during the 80s, i remember the orange colors. yeah, i think their airlines were painted in orange colors?

anyways, i remember the blue colors from Nordair back then, from the early 737 models. that used to be one of the airlines back then with Iqaluit.

British Airways in the 70s/80s.

VC-10s, 707s, Classic 747s, the gourgous Tristar! and later the DC-10. Proper planes unlike them Plastique and damn right annoying Airbus’s!

No suprise from me,id like to see the good old noisey smokey gripper………………BEA,Northeast,Cyprus Airways,Channel Airways,Iraqi Airways,Kuwait Airways,Air Ceylon and BKS Trident’s of all variant’s.:D

re

Well, what about Air UK, with their Heralds and F27s, BIA Heralds, Air Anglia DC3s and F27s Cambrian Airways Viscounts and 1-11s, Northeast Airlines Viscounts and Tridents.

Me too! 😮 I think he’s too busy on airliners.net these days… 😉

I’ve heard of bringing back up an old-ish thread, but this is ridiculous! :rolleyes:

Paul

B’Jaysus… I thought Danairboy was back amongst us for a sec there !!!!:eek:

Still around in some form but please bring back the old Britannia:

Anybody remember Cal Air then to Novair,

British Island Airways,

Paramount,

Airways Cymru,

Highland Express

Gee I think I am showing my age now, better stop!

My answer is in my avatar.

The original National Airlines (1934-1980).

Of course, I’m biased. My father worked for National (JFK & LGA) from 1969 thru to their merger with Pan Am in 1980.

As a child I would get excited at the “Fly Me I’m (insert comely stewardess’s name here)” commercials simply because I knew my father worked for the airline. I didn’t appreciate the non-politically correct nature of the commercials until I grew a little bit older. 😀

I was even fortunate enough to go on an employee’s tour on one of National’s two brand new 747s (“Jacqueline” & “Patricia” which they operated briefly in the early-70s) as they were brought into service.

The Sun King livery is still one of the best I have ever seen on an airliner.

If I could bring back any airlines, it would have to be:

BRITANNIA – I cant remember the flights themselves because I was quite young and did not have as much interest in aviation then as I do now, but I flew with them quite a few times and loved them!:D

EUJET – I never flown on this now defunct airline, but I strongly believe Kent International (Manston) Airport has got potential as an airport, and it was a shame that this particular airline failed.

Also, if anyone wishes to reminise over the uniforms of past airlines, or current airlines that have changed their uniforms, take a look at this site that I found whilst browsing the Internet: http://www.uniformfreak.com

Steve,
If you come back to Newcastle or Leeds, you may still fly on Ansett equipment.
Once flew from Sidney to I think it was Hong Kong with Ansett on a 762.
I was in business class and they actually had a chef on board with the full outfit and tall white hat to boot.
Happy times.

Wardair Canada lumps in MAN.

Are Aviogenix still going?

I’ve heard of bringing back up an old-ish thread, but this is ridiculous! :rolleyes:

Paul