Quite right, too.

There are similar shots of the crowds at Ringway on 28 May 2003, Champions League Final day.

Well, the aircraft arrived at LHR on Friday 17 September and was towed into the Virgin hangar at 15:45 local.

It taxied for departure from LHR at 10:30 local on Saturday 18 September.

The interval between these two times is, I think you will agree, rather less that 24 hours.

My source is a member of ops staff at LHR, and his information is corroborated by a number of postings on well-respected aviation newsgroups on Friday and Saturday.

Ooooh! A KLM Viscount!

Nice…… :D:D:D

OK, let’s forget Cyprus and Air Charter Service because they weren’t “1st hand operators” even though one of the Cyprus machines was delivered directly to them. I have to say that this is a rather artifical distinction, rather like your insistence on only including fixed-wing machines in the “An24 Equivalent” thread. No matter.

However, since the PLAAF and China United Airlines were “1st hand operators” of Chinese Tridents, the number of operators still stands at 10.

Run out of fingers yet? :diablo:

The fact that so few were built and that your can literally count the number of operators on one hand shows that the Trident was just not up to matching the competition.

Hmmm…… let me see now:

BEA
Channel A/W
Iraqi A/W
Air Ceylon
Kuwait A/W
Cyprus A/W
CAAC
Air Charter Service (Zaire)
PIA

I make that 9 operators, 10 if you include Northeast (which you really should as they were a distinct company from BEA).

Just how many fingers have you got on each hand, Sandy? 😮

danairboy, I think I can safely say that I speak for many others in this forum when I suggest that if you don’t have anything worth saying, or any positive contribution to make, then you should at least spare us your constant griping, carping and moaning.

Thank you.

To the Walloons, maybe. But that’s not what the Flemish call their capital – they call it Brussels – and they’re the majority.