By: Banupa - 15th August 2011 at 18:00
I know there was an outfit called Blue Air who used DC-4’s for holiday charters, from Manston I think. Dan-Air had their fingers in many pies in the late 60’s onwards with Comets, Boeing 727 and the like. All were well past their sell by dates. One 727 I flew in to and from Lanzarote had to stop off at Valencia on the way back to top up its tanks. Whether it was headwinds, or just cheaper fuel being the reason I’ll never know, but the diversion made us late into Gatwick, missing the last train home.
By: Banupa - 15th August 2011 at 17:55
Do you mean tour operators-or airlines associated with or owned by tour operators.
Sorry to sound pedantic but theres is a fair difference between the two.
(eg Clarksons and Thomsons were/are tour operators-but their associated airlines were Court Line and Britannia Airways.)
Thomsons used many airlines to fly their package tours-such as Hispania/Spantax/Monarch etc.
Laker=Lord brothers and so on?
Take your pic! Just need a memory nudge of how things used to be 😎
By: WJ244 - 15th August 2011 at 17:35
Channel Airways were pretty early carriers in the package tour market. When they called for passengers for departures to places like Le Touquet, Avignon, Paris and Perpignan it seemed a very exotic world away from Southend to a 13 year old spotter who hadn’t even made it to the Isle of Wight!
By: daveg4otu - 15th August 2011 at 17:34
Euravia….predecessors of Britannia.
By: Halcyon days - 15th August 2011 at 17:25
Do you mean tour operators-or airlines associated with or owned by tour operators.
Sorry to sound pedantic but theres is a fair difference between the two.
(eg Clarksons and Thomsons were/are tour operators-but their associated airlines were Court Line and Britannia Airways.)
Thomsons used many airlines to fly their package tours-such as Hispania/Spantax/Monarch etc.
Laker=Lord brothers and so on?
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