LHR-MAN. Can you confirm?

or perhaps just fishing for an upgrade!

On a shuttle flight? The only upgrade would be to the jump seat LOL.

or perhaps just fishing for an upgrade!

Thanks guys, I did wonder about the shuttle theory. I know the Shuttle brand was around before 1979, and I would have thought Super Shuttle came later than 1979, but I’m sure it’s something along those lines.

Of course he could equally have just been talking nonsense!

1L.

Perhaps he was a passenger on the first “BA Shuttle” branded LHR-MAN flight?

The timescale would be about right for that.

I think it is probably something to do with this. A selection of routes in the UK were upgraded to “shuttle” just prior to the arrival of 757s in the early 80s, although the first shuttle route was launched in 1975 between LHR-GLA. I think the upgrade to shuttle brought tridents onto all of the relevent routes as the standard aircraft. I would have thought Shuttle would have been introduced earlier than 1979 on the MAN route, but I may be wrong and so that could resolve the 27-year time scale.

Howdy,

On my BEA 1964-65 winter timetable, BEA had eleven flights mostly with the Vanguard.

Bill
Boston, Massachusetts

Perhaps he was a passenger on the first “BA Shuttle” branded LHR-MAN flight?

The timescale would be about right for that.

Thanks Grey, that’s pretty much what I would have expected, but he was determined that he and his wife had travelled on the first flight and had a souvenir brochure of it.

He must have been imagining things!

1L.

MAN appears as a LHR destination on this BEA route map from the mid-1960s, so it looks like your passenger was mistaken.

I ve got a feeling that may be correct.

So it started on my 10th birthday then!