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Skipness One Foxtrot
But was BCAL intended to be in North or BA? The takeover was 1987 so quite near opening in 1988. Anyone remember? Before BCAL, BA was mainly British Airtours at LGW with B737-236s. Did they even have any long haul at LGW in 1987?
BA did some longhaul flights from Gatwick in the late 70's using the 707-336's, Vancouver was one of the destinations, and there were longhaul TriStar flights (not charters) to Cairo and I think some other African places late 80's I think, but specifically 1987 I'm not sure.