Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
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.
Back in the developing jet package holiday years-
Court Line and Autair managed 4 rotations a day - (remember all those 02.00 1-11 departures!)
sectors back then were much shorter - so say a Palma Alicante Rimini or Venice then a Palma was possible in a day
Even at MON/OM in 1986 when I was at LGW we had 4 rotation on a Saturday and a Monday with the 757 (with an 01.40 CFU departure)
the longer IT sectors such as TCI NCO and RHO from LGW were the domain of BEA airtours comets and 707's BUA VC-10's
and Dan Air comets, and the Monarch 720B's from LTN
Prior to the jets the Britannia was king on these routes