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Old 15th Apr 2020, 19:07
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At one time, Yugoslavia was the second biggest UK holiday destination after Spain. Spent a summer working at Servisair and we handled all three Yugoslavian airlines - couldn't work out why there was three of them and then why were so different - now we know...

Inex Adria used DC-9's/MD-80's and were very Germanic, JAT used 727's/DC-9's and were very east European (similar to Tarom/Balkan) and Aviogenex with their Tu-134's were very Latin. Quite often the hosties would stuff the Gen Dec into your hand as soon as the doors opened and then strode into the terminal to clear WHSmiths out of fashion magazines and chocolate. Again, not unusual for the a/c to be left in the charge of an "engineer" and for the crew (cockpit and cabin!) to be the last to board before departure i.e. after the pax...
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