Originally Posted by
IcePack
During the late 80’s summers Monarch Airlines used to get 18+ hours a day out of their 737s. You never got into a cold seat & the aircraft were never electricaly shut down. Today the infrastructure would make that impossible.
I expect three return trips per day was normal on the 'holiday jets' back then, not only on Monarch but Orion, Britannia et al. If longer trips like the Canaries or Greece were thrown in, maybe only two per day.