15 August (just 2 days from now)
on this day in 1974 Court Line Aviation, Clarksons and Horizon Holidays/4S Travel ceased to be
only LIAT Horizon Midlands and OSL holidays plus the coach company survived
Liat (1974) is still going
Horizon Midlands formed Orion Airways (bought by Britannia now TUI) and OSL was bought by Rank (BCAL charter then Calair)
Court Line was my second job since leaving school in aviation joining Court and Horizon/4S in 1972
I left 10 days before the collapse (and doubled my salary overnight with Bland Group working for Gib Air and Cadogan Holidays, not bad for an 18 yo!)
there was no word at that time that I knew of that we were in trouble at Court/Horizon
my first job was Air Spain/Vista Jet who also failed lol
Last edited by rog747; 13th Aug 2017 at 07:10.