Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
I'm sure I've read before on a similar thread that the Albion callsign was the brainchild of a Northeast/BARD Leeds Bradford Base Captain. I can't recall a name though. Agree, Norjet was naff for a Viscount but I guess the American Northeast had already bagsied the obvious callsign.
IIRC Northeast was used on LBA and NCL operations until the four components of regional division (Cambrian, Channel, Northeast and Scottish) were rolled into one in 1976. At that point flight numbers became BE/Bealine (eg LHR>LBA midday-ish was BE4405). Possible one or two were BA/Speedbird.
I assume that ATC then had callsign indigestion with too many Bealines with similar flight numbers and by summer 76 they reverted to NS/Northeast at Leeds. BZ/Albion came along in 1977, presumably because NE/Northeast was an anachronism.
Can anybody expand/enlarge/correct?