Nice pics, we see that Atlas machine frequently at STN. That Delta scheme has to be one of the most boring devised to date, but I like the current one.

greekdude, sorry mate but I didn’t see your question until this morning. No there is no tie up between either of the Skyservice companies and Airtours, its just a case of similar liveries. The DC10s were leased with revised titles applied. Premiair was formed from a merger of the Danish charter airline Conair and the SAS charter offshoot Scanair, this was in turn absorbed by the Airtours group and this eventualy “morphed” into My Travel. (dreadful name-even worse livery-just my opinion!) Hope the info of interest.

I believe that this sets a very bad precedent indeed. Hijacking is air piracy at its very worst, there is absolutely no justification in a civilised world for the seizure, at the point of arms and under the threat of violence, of a civilian airliner going about its lawful business. The justification used by these criminals could apply to the citizens of many countries, I fear it will open the doorway to more of these types of offence. I was senior on duty in an Ops office at Stansted the night that these criminals threatened to the poor duty ATC controller on open tower frequency to kill further hostages unless a certain individual was brought to the aircraft. I shall always remember the calm and professional manner that the ATC guy maintained when we could all hear the shouts of terror in the background as the criminals made their demand live on the tower frequency. No, this is a bad verdict! Has the world gone completely mad?

Ooooooh yes!!

The most bizzare in flight shopping guide has to be the A4 sized sheet of tracing paper stuffed into the back of our Air Koryo IL62 seat reminding you not to leave the aircraft without the condensed works of Kim Il Sung for the princely sum of $35! I declined that, as well as the Pocket guide to Korean Exotic fish for $12!