1984 at GLA and which airlines?

I worked for Air Ecosse from 1980 to 1983. At one point, we were the largest Bandeirante operator outside of Brazil. It’s some time ago now, but our engineering base at Dyce, used to undertake work on Bandits operated by other airlines as well as our own machines. We had two Twin Otters in the fleet, and a leased Herald. Air Ecosse was owned by a company called Fairflight based at Biggin Hill, this gave AE access to a Learjet, and further Bandeirantes as required. The highly lucrative Royal Mail Datapost flights, operated at night, covered routes spanning the UK and Ireland. Those Bandeirantes were hard working and reliable pieces of kit, with an excellent despatch record. The Otters were virtually indestructible, which was just as well considering some of the airfields they served. I did once travel from LTN (where I was based) to ABZ, on a Twin Otter, it was a long flight compared to a Bandit, and was rarely used on that route…..thank goodness. We did operate a Bandit, that was painted into the bright red and yellow Datapost livery, it was appropriately registered G-POST, there was also G-MAIL, but I can’t remember wether or not it wore the same livery.

Thanks IE, as I said I should have known both Air Ecosse and Genair, I flew with Genair on BCal flights several times.

Never heard of Burnthills though which is odd as I spent many happy hours at GLA at about this time. Now that I have the correct name a bit of Googling has revealed they were an air taxi company who used a Bell Jetranger to expand into scheduled services to various Scottish destinations. I can’t imagine anyone ever thought that type of service on those routes would be a success.

Cheers.

I think EN is Genair, and EC AIr Ecosse.

They were both small airlines who operated Shorts aircraft.

Air Ecosse had at least one painted in a bright red Datapost livery that certainly stood out! They were based at Aberdeen, but their aircraft ranged far and wide, operating a service from Dundee to Carlisle to Heathrow for a while, and they also hada daily flight Wick – Aberdeen – Edinburgh – East Midlands. The aircraft arrived at East Midlands every evening, night stopped and then left nack for Scotland early the next morning.

Genair had a large network of services throughout the UK. They ended their days operating services for British Caledonian in a forefront to the franchise / ccommuter style operation that is now commonplace.

I think KB was Burnthill, who I think operated a fleet of Jetranger (?) helicopters on scheduled services from Glasgow.

IE