Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
I can remember when Mr B thought they'd made a dreadful error as only European airlines were interested............
I think unlikely as the second order for them, after Lufthansa, was a huge (for the times) 75 aircraft order for United, and Western soon followed. They had however been beaten to this size of aircraft by the DC9-30, which scooped a number of US airlines shortly beforehand.