Originally Posted by
Flightrider
One other Orion question of anyone in the know who may be able to answer, if I may ask.
Almeria was a relatively modest destination for the likes of Thomson and rivals of the era including Intasun, the Owners Abroad brands and Cosmos. However Orion had far more capacity into Almeria than almost everyone else put together at the time. Was this simply that Horizon had found a niche and made it work, or was there some other link through hotel ownership or a Bass brewery offshoot or some other connection that this served? Just curious - I'd remembered them flying Almeria from a lot of UK airports on a rotating pattern of Thursday and Sunday flights, but firing in A300s from LGW and MAN would be a lot of capacity even now, let alone back in 1988.
I think it was the original Horizon Hols that set up Mojacar and Roquetas de Mar
and built some hotels as a new resort and it became a new ''Costa Almeria'' back in the early 70's...It was unheard of before then