Originally Posted by
GBYAJ
we must have been on the Newcastle roof at about the same time because the story that I heard had developed from this a bit and the armed soldiers were on the planes when they arrived at Newcastle!! the sevisair ground crew were told (politely) by the cabin crew to stay away for their own safety......
While this part may have been an urban legend there was no doubt that the Balkan cabin crew hit the “shops” at the airport each weekend. they used to go back to the tu154 loaded with as much as they could buy from John Menzies (the newsagent).
We could well have been!
Says something about the standard of retail facilities in Eastern Bloc that a trip to John Menzies was a highlight of their summer
