Originally Posted by
k3k3
In the mid seventies Alidair had a contract to fly the Scottish Daily Express from Manchester to Lossiemouth with Viscounts every night. I flew with them sitting on the stacks of newspapers many times in 1975, and from Lossie to Aberdeen or Derby on the way down south.
At least one of the aircraft was ex-Air Inter, the titles showed through the over painting ..... Alidair had both 700 and 800 series
In a reverse of the normal pattern, Alidair picked up various Viscount 800 series in the early 1970s, then a few years later started to dispose of them and got a fleet of 700s, including five from Air Inter. Your experience would have been at the time of the changeover. It was one of the former Air Inter aircraft that experienced Alidair's most infamous moment, landing in a field near Exeter, out of fuel.