Originally Posted by
WHBM
Canary Islands on a Trident from ... Southend ! Now that would have been an interesting takeoff.
Did Channel actually check pax in at Southend and then coach them over to Stansted ? Did once hear this.
No, i dont think so,
channel had planned their 1-11 and trident IT jet ops from the start to go from SEN BUT very quickly the level of local noise complaints saw them having to move most of their jet ops PDQ to STN
maybe they did some coaching to STN for the SEN already booked pax?
ad hoc jet ops were also from LTN and MME to PMI with a trident at weekends
BUA leased one of the new 1-11's for all of the summer 1969
yes in 1971 they got a Berlin IT contract to see a 1-11 (or 2) and one Trident based there with the other trident used for spares backup
the comets doing most of the UK IT work - yes Lyons and Leroy tours were customers
1972 they were gone for good