Originally Posted by
old,not bold
I understood that those joy-ride flights that BA did at regional airports, typically an hour or so for about £400 a head, were primarily to enable the pilots, RHS and LHS, to do the minimum landings to stay current, because this could not be done on scheduled services alone.
Same was said about the periodic placing of a Concorde on the London-Glasgow/Edinburgh shuttle, which came with
PR hoopla and articles in the news. A classic was doing it on the morning British Midland introduced their competing Diamond Service on the Glasgow run, timed to arrive there just as the BMA
PR team were doing their pitch to the journalists, and which emptied the presentation room of its audience just at the critical moment - and as the editor of the evening newspaper was only going to have one aviation story on the front page, guess which one it was ...