Originally Posted by
Flightrider
My word - those airstairs really are something. Difficult to imagine fitting that to an aircraft nowadays, and worth watching the video for that alone. Unbelievable. I knew they'd done it, but the other thing in the video that I'd never seen before was the integral baggage belt loaders. Did those survive in later TriStar operation with other airlines?
baggages in the following years were loaded into and handled by ULD (AVE) containers for most of the time on wide bodies once the equipment was available at airports
bulk loading still occurred now and again if the airport had no ULD facilities
a 767 went into Skiathos once - that was bulk loaded
afaik only Court and LTU took the aft airstair and cargo hold bulk baggage belt options
PSA's 5 a/c had a drop down fwd airstair into the lower deck which had 16/18 saleable and/or lounge seats - only 2 new a/c went to PSA and LTU took the other 3