Originally Posted by
bean
Cooler ambient temps would create a lower true airspeed.
G-AVRO wasactually delivered in 1969, these slightly later aircraft had a higher max gross take off weight
In the late 80’s I always wondered why the older BY 737’s didn’t spend much time up north in Newcastle and then found an interesting article on airliners.net in hindsight stating the obvious that the older ones couldn’t make it non-stop to Greece and the canaries so Glasgow and Newcastle usually had the G-BJC@ and G-BKH^ for this purpose. But, the fleet used to
Swap around so much that it was as either an exciting job get the right aircraft in the right place or a complete nightmare. An older 737 such as G-BAZG could have started the day at NCL doing a short flight, but would be swapped down route with a newer One to operate the next longer sector. Dan Air on the other hand just based their best performing 737 at ncl and left it there!