Autumn 1977 from Gothenburg to Palma de Mallorca on a Transair Sweden 727-100. Don’t remember very much as I was only two years old other than I constantly pulled down the blinds for the row behind us :p , and that I was carried down the aft stairway.

Next flight, and first flight I clearly remember, was on a Scanair DC-8-63 from Gothenburg to Las Palmas on 26 December 1984. Because of that very flight at 9 years of age I became interested in aviation and 17 years later I started working in the business. 🙂

Very very nice! Great memories.

£5 to the first one who can list the original airframes to wear the above registrations! 😉 No cheating!

I think if SAS had kept their 767s along side the A340s, there route network would be in better shape.

Much would be in better shape if SAS ‘had only’… but this airline is not known for taking logical decisions! 😉

The A321 was not a replacement for non-existing 757s though. The A321 was purchased to fill the void between the MD-80 and 767/A340. I e heavier European routes such as CPH-LHR, CPH-CDG etc.

The 777 was said to be “too big” and the engines couldn’t be transported on lorries under Swedish road bridges. That’s one of the reasons… now the A340 is always full on certain Asian routes. If a 777-100 existed, it would have been perfect back then. There were also talks about buying second-hand 747-400 Combis off Cathay Pacific IIRC.

Back in 1987-88 when a replacement for the DC-10 was due, McDonnell Douglas even issued a press release that an order for the MD-11 had been placed, but this wasn’t the case. As we know, 767-200 and -300s were ordered instead.

Looks like a landing or a rapid descent. Doesn’t feel as rough inside the simulator though!

…and now there are talks about leasing in a number of 767s to reopen certain routes and open new ones from Stockholm. Let’s see what happens…

Ah, a CAE simulator with a Maxvue visual system and Barco projectors on the roof! Do you use lesson plans? Please ask the instructor if he likes the editor CAE ships with the simulator… 😉

Very good, let’s talk later! 😉

And for all you others, the site where these profiles are going to is http://scanair.sonnenflieger.se (in Swedish only, sorry), my site about Scanair which I made in 2001 and now is set for refurbishment.